<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">My go-to DeAndre Jordan GIF this coming season <a href="https://t.co/ThowZPJO0j">pic.twitter.com/ThowZPJO0j</a></p>— Matt Johnson (@MattJ_CRCSports) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattJ_CRCSports/status/767443283584749568">August 21, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
but that's what derozan did. he was on the run and caught a pass and dribbled about as fast as a human can dribble after catching. i don't know how that is a travel. and serbia committed an obvious travel on a pump fake 3 that they didn't call. if you don't play for team USA they tend to let things go. at least the first travel they called on durant was legit. even in the nba they would have to call that one.
its cute how klay thompson thinks hes a superstar. He's kyle korver with average defense. People forget Kyle Korver was an all-star and played international play Durant did not need to join the damn warriors Also this team usa team is not impressive its really durant, deandre, cousins, and george doing all the work. A lot of european superstar players stayed because of fears of ZIKA
http://basketball.realgm.com/wiretap/243121/George-Durant-Butler-Cousins-Lead-Team-USA-In-PER Team USA PER in 2016 Olympics 1. Paul George: 25.8 2. Kevin Durant: 23.5 3. Jimmy Butler: 23.3 4. DeMarcus Cousins: 23.1 5. DeAndre Jordan: 20.9 6. Kyrie Irving: 20.8 7. Carmelo Anthony: 19.6 8. Kyle Lowry: 19.4 9. DeMar DeRozan: 16.2 10. Draymond Green: 11.0 11. Klay Thompson: 8.3 Unlike in this year's Olympics, every player on Team USA in 2012 had a PER of at least 23.0 with four players posting marks above 35.0. Team USA PER in 2012 Olympics 1. Carmelo Anthony: 41.6 2. Kevin Love: 40.0 3. Kevin Durant: 39.4 4. LeBron James: 35.9 5. Kobe Bryant: 27.4 6. Russell Westbrook: 26.4 7. Andre Iguodala: 25.9 8. Tyson Chandler: 25.5 9. Deron Williams: 24.3 10. James Harden: 23.9 11. Chris Paul: 23.0 *Anthony Davis: 28.1 (fewer than 10 minutes per game) Team USA PER in 2008 Olympics 1. Dwyane Wade: 37.5 2. LeBron James: 28.9 3. Dwight Howard: 28.4 4. Chris Bosh: 28.4 5. Chris Paul: 22.3 6. Carmelo Anthony: 20.4 7. Kobe Bryant: 19.1 8. Tayshaun Prince: 17.1 9. Deron Williams: 13.8 10. Jason Kidd: 9.3 11. Michael Redd: 5.6 * Carlos Boozer: 15.6 (fewer than 10 minutes per game) When Team USA sent a perceived B team to the World Cup in 2014, they still had four players with PERs above 30.0. Team USA PER in 2014 FIBA World Cup 1. DeMarcus Cousins: 36.7 2. Anthony Davis: 31.6 3. Kenneth Faried: 31.0 4. James Harden: 30.2 5. Andre Drummond: 24.6 6. Kyrie Irving: 23.8 7. Klay Thompson: 22.1 8. Stephen Curry: 21.4 9. Rudy Gay: 18.7 10. DeMar DeRozan: 16.4 11. Derrick Rose: 7.3 * Mason Plumlee: 15.5 (fewer than 10 minutes per game) On an individual PER level, Team USA in 2016 most closely resembles the 2004 team that had to settle for Bronze. Team USA PER in 2004 Olympics 1. Shawn Marion: 26.1 2. Tim Duncan: 26.0 3. Lamar Odom: 23.5 4. LeBron James: 19.9 5. Allen Iverson: 17.1 6. Stephon Marbury: 14.2 7. Dwyane Wade: 13.7 8. Richard Jefferson: 8.1 * Carlos Boozer: 23.7 (fewer than 10 minutes per game) * Amar'e Stoudemire: 19.0 (fewer than 10 minutes per game)
Really interested to see what international basketball looks like four years from now at the 2020 Olympics. With some of the famed "golden generations" at or near the end of the line, I get the sense that the international powers below the US are going to shift a little bit in this next cycle. Serbia looks poised to be involved again in four years, Australia played well in Rio and has quite a bit of young talent that wasn't even playing this time around, and I think Canada has a real shot to be a player on the big stage with the way they're developing NBA talent now.
This Serbian team does not look like a top level international team. They're getting shut down on offense and they're not very good on defense. USA just doing work out there.
butler came in the game and i was thinking how much he had been struggling. then he cut to the basket and got a pass for an easy layup and i thought there was no way he could miss this, and he still bricked it. he is redefining struggling (edit: and he shoots an airball as i am typing this). and why did that follow up layup by lowry end up counting? it looked like it hit the rim and then someone knocked it off.
Draymond and Barnes playing in garbage time, shows how deep they are. Team USA should have crushed everyone like they're pounding Serbia today. Anyway they got gold despite not crushing everyone like the women did.
Gold medal for team USA. Just goes to show that when they show up to play, they are truly head and shoulders above the competition.
Oh boy, How much you want to bet Trump politicizes that last interview with Melo? "I believe America will be great again?" uh oh.
even in garbage time some of our team still struggled. draymond didn't shoot any jumpers close to going in and barnes looked lost. probably didn't help their plus/minus. i kinda wanted the largest margin of victory in a gold medal game.
