Oh my God! Krzyzewski's coaching pros!

On the road to the games in Japan, our laughable record recently in international basketball is gonna hopefully be rectified by our #2 enemy.

On ESPN2 tonight at 11, we face Puerto Rico in an exhibition from Las Vegas.

8/3/2006 10:34:27 PM

Apparently, this is important enough to show on tape delay.

8/3/2006 10:44:09 PM

Starting lineup: Lebron, D-Wade, Chris Paul, Carmelo, Chris Bosh

8/3/2006 11:07:58 PM

Chris Paul?

Japan better watch their nuts....

But seriously there is only one ball, that lineup may not work at all times. Only Lebron and Paul will share it.

8/3/2006 11:11:24 PM

^^^ this is live

and they are looking absolutely horrible

8/3/2006 11:54:18 PM

ended the half pretty strong

8/4/2006 12:07:21 AM

60-35 and this is weak?

8/4/2006 12:24:49 AM

heinrich is playing his nutsack off

8/4/2006 12:40:00 AM

this aint nba ball, they dont play full court defense anymore.

8/4/2006 12:57:45 AM

that joe johnson move near the end of the 1rst half was sick

took his man baseline and did an up-and-under

oh and brand should take bosh or carmelo's place in that lineup, IMO.

8/4/2006 11:26:51 AM

^ that was the highlight of the game for me

i would leave 'melo in the starting 5 because he is such a difficult match-up for anyone, especially international players, and he showed it last night. bosh was trying to hard to play an outside game when they really needed him down low.

[Edited on August 4, 2006 at 11:42 AM. Reason : o]

8/4/2006 11:42:03 AM

well i jsut feel it wouldnt hurt to have a typical lineup and lebron and melo play the same position

pg: paul
sg: wade
sf: bron
pf: brand
c: howard or bosh

8/4/2006 11:45:01 AM

i'd start howard over bosh

8/4/2006 11:48:38 AM

Quote :

"this is live and they are looking absolutely horrible"

Ok. I was just going by what the paper said. My bad.

8/4/2006 1:40:24 PM

who is he going to cut? krzysisdhdiksdkfdski has to cut one more. Battier?.....doubtful

8/15/2006 8:12:38 PM

bruce bowen

SEE YA

8/15/2006 8:17:56 PM

his first points came in the last game of the "prechampionships." He is one of the best defenders in the league, I would hate to see him go.

I really enjoyed watching the games, hopefully we will win the championships with no problem, though Brazil did give us a little scare, and I hear Italy is no joke, and they are in our division if Im not mistaken.

8/16/2006 8:58:38 AM

Quote :

"With Team USA needing to pare its roster down from 14 to 12, it appears that Spurs forward Bruce Bowen is on the chopping block. Before Sunday's game against Lithuania, one USA Basketball official told the San Antonio Express-News that Bowen would have a "difficult time" making the active roster."

8/16/2006 9:14:00 AM

BTTT.....first qualifying round game tonight against Puerto Rico at 1am

On the Deuce

[Edited on August 18, 2006 at 2:22 PM. Reason : ]

8/18/2006 2:22:23 PM

I hope we beat the hell out of Puerto Rico. The fact that they embarrassed us a few years ago with Carlos fucking Arroyo leading the way was amazing. Hopefully D-Wade, LeBron, and company will take no prisoners and look to run up the score if the game is a blowout.

8/18/2006 2:27:36 PM

USA#1

8/19/2006 1:02:10 AM

pretty close game

8/19/2006 1:56:21 AM

20 point lead...as long as our team is focused...I don't think we can lose.

8/19/2006 2:43:20 AM

111-101

8/19/2006 2:58:02 AM

Well. they went 5-0 in Group D.......face Australia on Sunday in the tournament

[Edited on August 24, 2006 at 9:36 AM. Reason : ]

8/24/2006 9:35:34 AM

8/24/2006 10:17:21 AM

Look like USA are beating Germany pretty good to safely call it a win. Watched the first half before I came to work, it was a scrappy game. USA couldn't hit a 3 to save their life though.

Every team in the semis will be undefeated.

Spain v. Argentina
Greece v. USA

8/30/2006 8:20:28 AM

Who's staying up early Friday morning to watch?

8/30/2006 1:45:26 PM

i will be... this is one of those occasions where i don't pull for greece

wade needs to do better than 3 pts though

8/30/2006 1:46:53 PM

Did anyone see D-Wade get blocked by that Garrett guy when he went for a dunk? Crazy.

8/30/2006 1:47:59 PM

im torn cause i want the US to win but i got $500 coming my way if spain wins

i still ahve no idea why the US was favored so heavily...

8/30/2006 4:19:43 PM