OGSactownballer wrote:Basically as was pointed out above - these are THE BEST American players (you cannot use foreign players like Batum - and I am actually hoping that post was a joke) that play International style ball. Everybody on that team is a high percentage shooter, very efficient, and can creat their own offense either in iso or post by putting the ball on the floor. I would actually favor this team in International competition because they play the game the way the FIBA rules make it be played.
In case nobody has noticed, since the original dream team opened up the eyes of the world to NBA basketball, we no longer have much of a monopoly on acting as though our guys are jhust going to show up and be handed the gold medal.
Arguably three of the top five players in the NBA right now (Duncan, Nowitski and Nash) are all from other countries. The arguments over that point will come now, but my answer to that is - check the records over the past five seasons and look at the hardware.
I know you were trying to make a point but Dirk is not a top 5 player in the NBA.