Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Olympic Basketball Team

Here's who was chosen for the US basketball team:

G Jason Kidd
G Deron Williams
G Chris Paul
G Michael Redd
G Dwyane Wade
G Kobe Bryant
F Carmelo Anthony
F Tayshaun Prince
F LeBron James
F Carlos Boozer
F Chris Bosh
C Dwight Howard

A couple of thoughts on this team - if they fail to win the Gold then the blame will fall squarely rightly or wrongly on Kobe Bryant's shoulders.... I don't like the makeup of the team. They have 6 guards and one center? How does that make sense? An Al Jefferson or Kevin Garnett would have greatly helped the team because neither player needs the ball on the offensive end but could add rebounding and strong defense to a team of ball-hungry players. Replace Jason Kidd and Tayshaun Prince with Jefferson and Garnett and the team is 100% better... Speaking of Garnett - where are the big three? No Garnett, no Paul Pierce? No Ray Allen? Didn't USA Basketball learn anything from 2004 or from watching this year's NBA Finals?...

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