The “Dream Team’ is a nightmare. They are currently trailing Puerto Rico 49-27 at halftime.
It appears that team chemistry matters more than celebrity and commercial endorsements. Time to let amateurs back into the game here at home.
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The final score is… who cares? They lost by 20 and were humilated. Maybe if these jerks came to play, and tried a little team work and humility, their performance might improve.
Doubt that will happen- they are too busy acting like royalty on the Queen Mary 2:
When LeBron James steps aboard the Queen Mary 2 this week, his U.S. Olympic teammates won’t be the only constellation of stars he can see by daylight.
The Cavaliers standout can wander the 14 decks of the luxury liner, stopping to feast at any of the 10 restaurants or lounge at one of the five swimming pools before sauntering into the planetarium.
“There’s a planetarium?” teammate Carmelo Anthony (Denver Nuggets) said. “Oh, I’m going everywhere on the Queen Mary.”
From attending seminars on global economics to playing miniature golf, members of the U.S. men’s basketball team can do almost anything on the $800 million Cunard Line vessel.
too good for Olympic village, not good enough for the Puerot Rican national team.
Bums. I want Clyde the Glide, Larry Legend, Magic, Black Jesus, and Ewing back. These guys can’t carry Chris Mullins jockstrap.
M. Scott Eiland
Good thing they’re all millionaires–they’re going to need new identities when they get home.
And I thought my daily Olympics post at tacitus.org was going to be about swimming. . .
Mason
Ooh, just what I needed. One more reason to loathe basketball.
Geoff Matthews
Stockton to Malone. They need another one of those.
It’s amazing how badly they played. Arroyo looked like he should have been playing for the US team. Glad the Jazz have him on contract.
Justin Ogren
Right on John, said like a champ.
Man you know how many people actually bailed off of the olympic team because of ‘terrorist scares’. That’s a buncha b.s., you gotta have at least some pride to say you can go anywhere to play, no matter what. I mean don’t they know of all the unknown athletes that don’t make millions of dollars like they do and they still can’t come over and play?
Brendan
One excuse I think these guys have is the piss-poor choice for coach. I know Larry Brown is one of the best coaches ever, but that’s when he can coach his players on his system all season. What this team needed was a coach that only pretended to coach. They should have played the Olympics like a street-ball game in Harlem, not a pass heavy style like Brown prefers to play. Those were NBA players that don’t pass a lot and are not used to passing. The only worse choice they could have made for coach would have been Phil Jackson.
Above excuses aside, I just am just as pissed off as the rest of you. The only solace I had yesterday was the Iraqi soccer team; if it weren’t for them my television would have a rage inspired hole it.
Brendan
One excuse I think these guys have is the piss-poor choice for coach. I know Larry Brown is one of the best coaches ever, but that’s when he can coach his players on his system all season. What this team needed was a coach that only pretended to coach. They should have played the Olympics like a street-ball game in Harlem, not a pass heavy style like Brown prefers to play. Those were NBA players that don’t pass a lot and are not used to passing. The only worse choice they could have made for coach would have been Phil Jackson.
Above excuses aside, I just am just as pissed off as the rest of you. The only solace I had yesterday was the Iraqi soccer team; if it weren’t for them my television would have a rage inspired hole it.
JKC
Adrian-
Can we please enjoy trashing the poor performance of the US Men’s basketball team here and save the paranoid, hallucinogenic stream-of-consciousness rants for a political thread.
And I thought it was lefties who were hogging all the good drugs…
Steve
There is one other thing these guys are lacking- heart. They see the Olympics as just another game, more of a vaction, perhaps, and don’t realize they are representing the US.
SDN
I hope these jerks get beaten like rented mules.