2024 Summer Olympics Thread

[Kemo]

That also happened before the 2020 Olympics. Just means USA women's basketball is deep. Not sure if it was a game played "for real" that it would have come out the same.

NOT what he was getting at.. Basically Clark got snubbed from Team USA .. It was poetic justice seeing her and Ogunbowale put on a clinic... and beating Team USA .. Clark no doubt should have been on Team USA... IMHO it was either politics or Cheryl Reeve don't know how to coach worth a damn as to why Clark aint on team USA .. lol

[Motion Offense]

2 of those rings, they had a superteam. Those 2 years are why Durant doesn't get credit for winning it either.

Rings matter but it's how you do it. That's why your boy Queen James will never pass Jordan too.

Peak wise I’ll say LeBron has past Jordan.
Longevity I’ll give the nod to LeBron.
Legacy and impact is still Jordan.
Im not really a LeBron fan but I’ll say he’s passed Jordan in some ways

[SaintLouisan]

Peak wise I’ll say LeBron has past Jordan.

Admirable contrarianism but: no.

[Motion Offense]

Admirable contrarianism but: no.

I don’t think peak Jordan is beating the warriors.

[graphic-er]

Rugby 7s what a great version on the game! 14 minutes of chaos. Watched the South Africa vs Australia match today and the player on Australia literally drop kick the ball at mid field out sprinted the the Australians to pick the ball up and run it into the end zone for points. Just a crazy amazing play I never seen anything like it.

[shags]

Joel Embiid's the worst player on Team USA. He shouldn't play at all unless they're 20 points ahead or 20 points behind. He's a great NBA player, but not so much in FIBA.

[SaintLouisan]

I don’t think peak Jordan is beating the warriors.

I assume this a reference to the same Warriors team that was an OKC third quarter collapse away from not even making the Finals (after the same OKC had blown a 3-1 series lead)? Yeah, I think the Bulls would have managed them just fine. Frankly if 3/5th of the Cavs starting lineup in the 2014 Finals wasn’t Iman Shumpert, Matthew Dellavedova, and Timothy Mozgov, it’s quite likely the Warriors win nothing until KD shows up—or, given The KD Way, that he never comes and they win nothing ever.

Of course it becomes much more interesting if we’re talking about the KD Warriors, but as the Rockets demonstrated, they were not exactly immortal (to say nothing of the fact they were down 23 on their own court to open the previous WCF before Pachulia assassinated Kawhi Leonard). But as we all know God hates Chris Paul so it was not meant to be.

[shags]

And Kevin Durant is an absolute cheat code in FIBA basketball. Dwyane Wade with the understatement of the Olympics, "He's just good at basketball".

[DisplacedKnick]

Serbia's playing like it's a playoff game. We're playing like it's an all-star game.

We'll still win. Too much talent. But its getting on my nerves.

[SaintLouisan]

Joel Embiid's the worst player on Team USA. He shouldn't play at all unless they're 20 points ahead or 20 points behind. He's a great NBA player, but not so much in FIBA.

Well let’s not pretend his numbers have translated to much success in the NBA either. I tend to think he gets a bit too much criticism but I’m starting to think he might just be, for the most part, an empty stats guy.

[SaintLouisan]

And Kevin Durant is an absolute cheat code in FIBA basketball. Dwyane Wade with the understatement of the Olympics, "He's just good at basketball".

If you can ignore all his goofiness and gloryhunting, there no doubt he’s the most talented player of his generation after Lebron.

[SaintLouisan]

Serbia's playing like it's a playoff game. We're playing like it's an all-star game.

We'll still win. Too much talent. But it’s getting on my nerves.

Thank God Yugoslavia doesn’t exist anymore or we’d be in serious trouble.

[vnzla81]

Hali is the water boy in team USA

[LongTimePacerFan]

Hali is the water boy in team USA

Tatum too.

[DisplacedKnick]

Thank God Yugoslavia doesn’t exist anymore or we’d be in serious trouble.

We'll see if they pan out. But based on where they were drafted this year plus Wemby, France could be very interesting in 4 years.