"USA Select Team"

[Frozen316]

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Country Before Draft

Being the patriotic website we are, we will start with an exclusive look at the USA Select Team, courtesy of a “piece of paper we found on the floor,” which just happens to have the entire roster, plus the alternates. This is the group of players which could possibly graduate onto the next crop of invites to the USA Men’s Senior National Team, after the Olympics. The players will scrimmage against the senior team this summer to help them prepare for the Olympics in Beijing.

Point Guard: Rodney Stuckey, Derrick Rose
Shooting Guard: Kevin Martin
Small Forward: Andre Iguodala, Jeff Green
Power Forward: Al Horford, Kevin Durant
Center: LaMarcus Aldridge, Al Jefferson

Alternates: O.J. Mayo, Rajon Rondo, Kendrick Perkins, Monta Ellis, Devin Harris

Also invited were Brandon Roy, who will be resting this summer and finishing up his degree at the University of Washington, and David West, who wants to rest after an extremely long season. They will still be in the mix for the future.

[D1SGRUNTL3D]

Durant at PF? Yikes.

[4ho5ive]

Aldridge at C? thats a soft frontcourt of LMA/KD

[LA_33]

Durant at PF? Yikes.

Well, Jeff Green is listed a SF, so those two guys will play the forward spots together much of the time, I'd think, as they will in Seattle down the road (unless the Sonics get Beasley, then Green's the 6th man). The National Team will also be using Melo and Prince as PFs in many situations, so maybe the selectors didn't want to beat them up play playing normal sized-lienups in the warm-up games (that's the opposite of what they should have done, IMO, but whatever...)

[D1SGRUNTL3D]

Durant at PF? Yikes.

Well, Jeff Green is listed a SF, so those two guys will play the forward spots together much of the time, I'd think, as they will in Seattle down the road (unless the Sonics get Beasley, then Green's the 6th man). The National Team will also be using Melo and Prince as PFs in many situations, so maybe the selectors didn't want to beat them up play playing normal sized-lienups in the warm-up games (that's the opposite of what they should have done, IMO, but whatever...)

Durants the shooting guard. Not any of the forward spots

[cpfsf]

Hopefully Big Al can one day make a roster spot, but there will be so many talented bigs in the future that it seems unlikely.