Post#668 » by Dedicated_76ers_fan » Sun Aug 17, 2008 12:36 am
Well, if he can't eat crow. One needs to shove it down one's throat. Ricky Rubio was arguably your BEST guard today. He has the ability to create shots for others and I think that's the first time the U.S has ever seen a guard that could play the passing lanes AT ALL, let alone as well as Rubio does. Oh and for all the "travel" calls and what not, do you know what a travel is? Lemme remind you. It's taking more then 2 steps without the ball. You can perfectly take two steps, jump and dunk. Which is mostly what our wing players do. And a travel is one of the hardest calls in the game, you don't know whether it's 2 or 3 steps they're taking. We had more travels called against us when playing you guys then in the entire tournament. As a matter of fact, I don't even think we traveled once before the game. Now in regards to your team. It is an Average offensive basketball team, which will NEVER EVER penertrate the wing defense the USA Team has.Kobe/LeBron/Wade/Prince/Paul/Williams/Kidd. The 1-3-1 defense is GARBAGE unless the court is small like HS/College/Olympic courts are. And even today, we faced a good deal of zone and we attacked it nicely.
Now, this whole steroid bull is annoying. Name 1 case in the last 20, that's TWENTY years an NBA player has taken steroids. As a matter of fact, it hasn't happened period. And the NBA has one of the best drug test regulations in sports. Testing once every quarter of a season. You won't be able to get away with taking steroids even if you tried. Your team is an average basketball team. The United States put the best PG'S, Wings and Forwards in the NBA league. There is a high level dfference. So high, that the refs tried to give this game to you early in the quarter and we were still up by double digits!