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Can TEAM USA basketball be beaten ?

congo9

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Can the Team USA basketball be beaten in 2012 London Olympic if they continue to send out best NBA PLAYERS ?
 

sunny302

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Can the Team USA basketball be beaten in 2012 London Olympic if they continue to send out best NBA PLAYERS ?

Even with the best NBA players, there is no assurance that they cannot be beaten if the team behaves arrogantly; see what happended to the dream team in 2004.:biggrin:
 

dethknight

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Not likely unless complacency set in and all their player have an off day. :biggrin: Yah one more thing. If the referee super kelong.
 

Adidas

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of coz,they can be beaten.
bro sunny302 just point out that 2004 Dream Team got beaten.
they are also human being.
 

congo9

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i doubt so .... unless ones international team can produce a squad of 12 NBA first team players , with considerable skills and fitness .......Level compareble to USA.
 

Microsoft

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They win by oni marginal against spain... Wun b surprise China will b nxt basketball pwr hse...
 

congo9

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I thought if USA shooting can be sharpen at this level more , like they are in NBA ! I think SPAIN will be in for a hiding.

Unless SPAIN and others European country can produce talented basketballer like a converyer belt. They send tthese players to play with NBA. If not , after the GASOL brothers, spain will be nothing.

But credit to the USA team , they did not have a so call CENTRE in their team. That why Gasol brothers of SPAIN have a good game down under the basket, until CHRIS BOSH came in who can match them in terms of rebonding.

They defeated other teams with their superior skills and fitness.
 

sunny302

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IMHO, nothing is impossible as there are many factors which ultimately affect the final result. That's why we have so called "upsets" in our vocab :biggrin::p:biggrin:
 

hughgrant

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these guys earn hundreds of million per yr and winning anything else other than the gold medal will be a disaster
 

SIFU

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no team is invincible one lah...

roger federrer at 1 time also look invincible..

now he looks beatable..:biggrin:
 

wodemama

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Even with the best NBA players, there is no assurance that they cannot be beaten if the team behaves arrogantly; see what happended to the dream team in 2004.:biggrin:
They should just award USA the gold medal. This year we can see they give alot of chance to the other teams, instead of dunkin they do simple lay-ups, seriously who can stop wade james anthony and bryan if they keep getting to the basket and dunk.
I thought if USA shooting can be sharpen at this level more , like they are in NBA ! I think SPAIN will be in for a hiding.

Unless SPAIN and others European country can produce talented basketballer like a converyer belt. They send tthese players to play with NBA. If not , after the GASOL brothers, spain will be nothing.

But credit to the USA team , they did not have a so call CENTRE in their team. That why Gasol brothers of SPAIN have a good game down under the basket, until CHRIS BOSH came in who can match them in terms of rebonding.

They defeated other teams with their superior skills and fitness.
Yea, howard cant shoot a free throw. Dam. If shaq was here, no 1 could dominate the paint like he could.
 

no_faith

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they must win or sure win la.
they are so call power hse in basketball which they call dream team.

if not win, CNN might come up wif another news report stating the basketball used is not round enuff.:biggrin:
 

sunny302

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2004 they sent only 2nd rate players, not the stars

You call this a 2nd rate team:eek:

2004 Olympic Games: finished 3rd among 12 teams
Tim Duncan, Allen Iverson, LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Amare Stoudemire, Shawn Marion, Carlos Boozer, Carmelo Anthony, Stephon Marbury, Richard Jefferson, Lamar Odom, Emeka Okafor (Coach: Larry Brown)

P.S. Names highlighted in BOLD are part of the 2008 Redeem Team...:p
 

The_Latest_H

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They win by oni marginal against spain... Wun b surprise China will b nxt basketball pwr hse...

That would depend on the fact whether can they send top quality players to the NBA. If the majority of team players remain in China and play only in the CBA, then there's not much they can progress.

The reason on why foreign basketball teams were able to beat the US Dream Team in recent times is because they have many top players who play in the NBA and many of them are world class- as good as Kobe Bryant.

The only reason on why the Dream Team won this year is not because they have prime players now. Its because there has been a change in attitude overall. The desire to exorcise past demons absolutely was the goal for all players and that was vividly displayed by a normally petulant, arrogant Kobe Bryant.

And that sums it up really: when Bryant isn't behaving like an arse, you know the team is gonna be up for all the games.
 
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