^^I wish I had basketball knowledge like you.

7/9/2012 5:06:39 PM

If you are a mania to basketball, it's possible.

7/9/2012 5:12:30 PM

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"I'm one of the only people on the board who cheers for the us in basketball. Most people hope we lose"

7/9/2012 5:25:57 PM

Look it up. People have been very anti the USA team for most of the last decade including on this board.

And I'm not just talking about Damon Thornton wearing his Puerto Rico shirt out to the bars after they beat us

7/9/2012 5:43:20 PM

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"The reason that team lost was because George Karl is a terrible coach and he had no idea how to adapt to international rules."

So we didn't lose because of one irrelevant reason, but because of another. Thanks for clarifying, Martin.

7/9/2012 5:44:16 PM

^^you look it up

7/9/2012 6:39:38 PM

Are we gonna see Atsur or evtimov?

7/9/2012 7:10:12 PM

all from the same poster in the same thread on the same page:

Quote :

""Sounds like usa will walk through this tournament. Our roster is stacked anyway, and weve got some serious international perimeter shooting now that Paul has range. Deron, durant, harden, love, Kobe, and melo can all fill it up from international range." "You realize we struggled quite a bit two years ago, right?" "We came in 6th with three losses in FIBA 2002." "I'm not sure where you thought I said I was predicting we win and trying to act like we weren't heavy favorites." "

This statement though is the spitting image of duplicitous doubletalking politician bullshit:

Quote :

"You realize this is 1 game tournament style, right? The #1 team doesn't usually win tournaments in this format unless they are head and shoulders above the rest of the field. It looks like we are, given Spains injury woes."

7/9/2012 7:22:41 PM

^^ seeing as Atsur is Turkish and Evtimov is Bulgarian, probably not

7/9/2012 7:23:28 PM

DURRR, I mean are they competing for their respective Europe counties?

7/9/2012 7:29:56 PM

No, because their respective countries are not competing.

7/9/2012 7:33:38 PM

Why the hell would any American not cheer for team USA? People might have been fed up with the attitudes and lack of seriousness displayed in prior teams but that didn't mean they wanted them to lose. There's a difference.

7/9/2012 8:59:24 PM

Blake Griffin had two insane dunks in practice. He's a really mother-fucker.

7/9/2012 9:15:40 PM

^it doesn't get better than that right there folks

7/9/2012 9:19:11 PM

Quote :

"If you are a mania to basketball, it's possible."

-Red Auerbach

7/9/2012 9:25:04 PM

None of those quotes are contradictory. Jesus the level of intelligence in this board drops by the month.

7/9/2012 10:22:55 PM

i'm still waiting for your proof that most people on here were rooting against Team USA in previous years

[Edited on July 9, 2012 at 10:24 PM. Reason : hell, fuck most, find me 3 people]

7/9/2012 10:23:30 PM

I always pull for Iran in all Olympic sports.

7/9/2012 11:03:52 PM

I would but I'm in Vegas and didn't bring a computer and its 112 degrees today. Not putting in that kind of effort on a phone.

7/9/2012 11:43:19 PM

aha, facelogic brings me great joy

7/9/2012 11:46:19 PM

It's not 112 in Vegas right now. I believe face to be lying.

7/9/2012 11:48:15 PM

Not right now retard. Earlier. During the day. We just got back from the wsop. Talked with turner briefly (forget his tww name) but didn't wanna distract him too much during the main event. You have to walk to harrahs to get the Rio shuttle so I'm tired. Plus I'm headed to foundation room now.

But yes, there has been a lot of anti American sentiment ever since after dream team 3 in 96. Im a big fan of usa basketball. Loved the dream teams and still enjoy watching them . Sometimes I even pull for Kobe

7/10/2012 12:00:23 AM

Look it up.

7/10/2012 12:06:06 AM

Oh, so now we're going back to 1996 and expanding the hate of USA basketball to the entire country. Don't know if you'll be able to prove that one, but good luck.

7/10/2012 12:07:26 AM

I just scanned the 2010, 2008 and 2006 threads and saw nothing

7/10/2012 12:15:48 AM

whoooooooole lotta fail by face going on right now

7/10/2012 12:41:33 AM

this is my favorite

Quote :

"You realize we struggled quite a bit two years ago, right?"

struggled...straight to a gold medal and about a 25 point differential average

7/10/2012 12:51:19 AM

STRUG

UH

LING

7/10/2012 8:14:15 AM

looks like face was lonely last night

7/10/2012 9:21:27 AM

Agree to disagree.

7/10/2012 5:33:25 PM

it's not agree to disagree, you state two completely different things one sentence after another, that way 12 pages later regardless of the result you can say a BS post of "see, told you guys this would happen" while ignoring the other sentence right next to it, and then you told people you were one of the few people here to support the team going back, someone did look it up, and can't find what you were talking about, you're a completely ridiculous poster

[Edited on July 11, 2012 at 9:26 AM. Reason : .]

7/11/2012 9:25:44 AM

^that's his schtick

7/11/2012 12:08:44 PM

it amazes me people still argue with face

7/11/2012 12:24:36 PM

it's england we have to watch out for. they have.............................Ben Gordon.........

7/11/2012 5:34:02 PM

Us and England are not in the same group.

7/11/2012 5:36:11 PM

Flyin Ryan, take your meds. None of those posts are contradictory, they are all consistent. Can you read?

7/12/2012 6:05:35 AM

OBAMA at it again. Unis made in China! Fuck you, shoot!

http://espn.go.com/olympics/summer/2012/story/_/id/8160403/2012-olympics-china-made-team-usa-uniforms-ignite-anger

7/12/2012 2:20:26 PM

?? Are you crazy?

7/12/2012 2:31:47 PM

How could shoot and Obama have allowed this to happen?

Don't you guys discuss these minutiae during your joint basketball scrimmages?

7/12/2012 2:48:29 PM

Griffins is back home, man. Knees injury. He should reserve his dunks for formal games.

7/12/2012 6:20:23 PM

Looking kind of sloppy against the Dominican Republic, but understandable considering they've only practiced for a week.

7/12/2012 9:39:14 PM

25 Points lead. Enough.

7/12/2012 10:19:14 PM

Just left the bar at Applebees. face was right. One guy actually tried to burn an American flag before security caught him.

7/12/2012 10:27:11 PM

Can't remember ever seeing fans doing the wave like that at a basketball game

7/12/2012 10:28:38 PM

I love watching Kobe play when he doesn't have to do/or try to do everything. Silky smooth.

7/12/2012 10:30:54 PM

Just got back from (watching some of) the game. My observations:

1) Those uniforms are fugly.

[Edited on July 12, 2012 at 10:41 PM. Reason : ]

7/12/2012 10:39:36 PM

facelogic dictates that this team is struggling

7/12/2012 11:00:50 PM

everybody says the original Dream Team would whoop this team

I think they'd win, but maybe only 6 out of 10 games head to head

not the lopsided margin people want to assume

please share your thoughts

7/12/2012 11:19:39 PM

no griffin for olympics

http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-griffin-tear-20120712,0,2412273.story

7/12/2012 11:20:36 PM

Quote :

"Why the hell would any American not cheer for team USA? People might have been fed up with the attitudes and lack of seriousness displayed in prior teams but that didn't mean they wanted them to lose. There's a difference."

i love cheering for underdogs and am not the most patriotic person in the world. fuck spain though. they already win everything. not really an underdog in the sports world.

7/13/2012 12:03:28 AM