Olympics Basketball Thread: Team USA... Yo WTF??! seriously...Team USA falls to 0-2 in Olympic exhibitions after loss to Australia

[Nzinga]

The Nigerian team is made of NCAA Division 1 players. They are among the
hundreds of thousands of Americans who barely miss the cut to play in the
NBA because the structure of American basketball is so cutthroat and allows
only a tiny few the opportunity to play. These reporters are behaving as if this
Nigerian teams reflects the ability of the people in Nigeria. This is not true.
This is a team made up of people who have benefitted from the best training
the US has to offer. They went through the same system as the Americans who
are on the US team. This is why the teams are so closely matched in ability. All
the people who played on both teams are American citizens. I defy anyone to
show me anyone on either team who is exclusively the citizen of another
country.

 

[therealjondoe]

The Nigerian team is made of NCAA Division 1 players. They are among the
hundreds of thousands of Americans who barely miss the cut to play in the
NBA because the structure of American basketball is so cutthroat and allows
only a tiny few the opportunity to play. These reporters are behaving as if this
Nigerian teams reflects the ability of the people in Nigeria. This is not true.
This is a team made up of people who have benefitted from the best training
the US has to offer. They went through the same system as the Americans who
are on the US team. This is why the teams are so closely matched in ability. All
the people who played on both teams are American citizens. I defy anyone to
show me anyone on either team who is exclusively the citizen of another
country.

They have at least 6 nba players on that team.

 

[Nzinga]

Having said this, I wish Nigeria well. At least the Nigerians are genetically of
Nigerian origin. This is more than can be said for Bernard Lagat who ran for
the US after running for Kenya; or the many Kenyans running for Bahrain whose
services were purchased at a million dollars each. One of these characters holds
the men's 3000m steeple chase record. He had been Steven Cherono before
being bought by Bahrain, renamed Saif Saheed Shaheen, and going by that
identity to set the world record.

 

[Nzinga]

They have at least 6 nba players on that team.

So why are people crying as if a team made of players born and trained
strictly in Maiduguri, Kaduna and Enugwu are the ones who defeated the
US?

 

[therealjondoe]

So why are people crying as if a team made of players born and trained
strictly in Maiduguri, Kaduna and Enugwu are the ones who defeated the
US?

Idk seems like all these teams have nba players now

 

[Nzinga]

Of course there is the case of the Boer girl, Zola Budd, who was naturalised into
an English citizen in 8 hours, to circumvent the sports sanctions then imposed
on apartheid South Africa, and allow her to participate in 5000m race at the 1984
Olympics in LA. I remember receiving the pleasing information that she had tripped
and lost the race.

 

[KingTaharqa]

But but KD is the best player in the world

Mofos hate LeBron so much they willing to crown anybody over him. They don't even require these mofos to put the work in and surpass his accomplishments. Just don't be him and we'll say you better. Kevin Durant is not and will never be seen as a leader, he's a great all time scorer but grossly overrated as a complete player.

 

[Nzinga]

Mofos hate LeBron so much they willing to crown anybody over him. They don't even require these mofos to put the work in and surpass his accomplishments. Just don't be him and we'll say you better. Kevin Durant is not and will never be seen as a leader, he's a great all time scorer but grossly overrated as a complete player.

Why is it too late to reconstitute this US team?

 

[woodchuck]

Why is it too late to reconstitute this US team?

Some of the people they need are too old, not interested, or still playing.

 

[Nzinga]

You could conceivably put together an NFL team made up of only
Nigerian players. The only player they would lack at this time is the
quarterback. Does that mean the country of Nigeria has caught up
with the US in American football?

 

[Nzinga]

Some of the people they need are too old, not interested, or still playing.

why is Step Curry not on the team? He gets paid $40+ million a year. He was happy to
be playing golf on NBC while his country was being humiliated by Nigeria and Australia

 

[Mrfreddygoodbud]

Hopefully it's them just mind fucking everybody...

And they are waiting for the official games to start to pour it on.

I'm saying so everybody could count them out.

Then hit em with tje good ol typical all star finesse


Let us pray this is the case

 

[Sango]

The NBA took basketball international a long time ago and the players have adapted from watching and learning from the elite levels of competition they faced. No surprise. The NCAA has also brought in tons of talented players from other countries to play on their college teams. Considering just those two points shouldn't surprise anyone that international teams are far more competitive than in year's past. What should surprise us all, is that the makeup of these teams is so flawed and unbalanced. Good team basketball will at times overcome talent. And we have seen this before. We just don't play good team basketball anymore and other countries caught up. These overseas teams may have been playing for years together, or benefitted from the best of what the USA had to offer in training, workouts, techniques, etc.

All of that aside, a lot of the players are also pseudo alpha males. They want to talk up like they're in charge and doing what they're not doing. A major difference from what made Jordan, Kobe, Shaq,.... even Tim Duncan, exceptional. Dudes may talk about ball is life, but have no hunger or desire to really show how ball is life. That mentality is different and affects others on the team - see Jimmy Butler. A guy like Draymond may just become annoying after awhile, bc he doesn't have all of the skills they need for them to listen and make it work. They'll end up clowing him for missing 3s or layups and dunks. But fail to see how he's necessary on the defensive end. I hope they win it all, but it'll be by chucking up 40 3s a game not playing good defense or team basketball.

 

[KingTaharqa]

why is Step Curry not on the team? He gets paid $40+ million a year. He was happy to
be playing golf on NBC while his country was being humiliated by Nigeria and Australia

Steph knows he's not celebrated for beating Nigerians or Australians, he's celebrated for beating LeBron. Since that's not possible in the Olympics he wasn't interested in participating. He also is physically fragile and wanted the summer off to rest his body after a grueling 9th seed MVP caliber season.

 

[Nzinga]

Steph knows he's not celebrated for beating Nigerians or Australians, he's celebrated for beating LeBron. Since that's not possible in the Olympics he wasn't interested in participating. He also is physically fragile and wanted the summer off to rest his body after a grueling 9th seed MVP caliber season.

Imagine the 18 year olds who volunteer to join the US Army fight in Afghanistan for $10/hr
hearing this of a millionaire who just bought a $31million house.

 

[Nzinga]

The NBA took basketball international a long time ago and the players have adapted from watching and learning from the elite levels of competition they faced. No surprise. The NCAA has also brought in tons of talented players from other countries to play on their college teams. Considering just those two points shouldn't surprise anyone that international teams are far more competitive than in year's past. What should surprise us all, is that the makeup of these teams is so flawed and unbalanced. Good team basketball will at times overcome talent. And we have seen this before. We just don't play good team basketball anymore and other countries caught up. These overseas teams may have been playing for years together, or benefitted from the best of what the USA had to offer in training, workouts, techniques, etc.

All of that aside, a lot of the players are also pseudo alpha males. They want to talk up like they're in charge and doing what they're not doing. A major difference from what made Jordan, Kobe, Shaq,.... even Tim Duncan, exceptional. Dudes may talk about ball is life, but have no hunger or desire to really show how ball is life. That mentality is different and affects others on the team - see Jimmy Butler. A guy like Draymond may just become annoying after awhile, bc he doesn't have all of the skills they need for them to listen and make it work. They'll end up clowing him for missing 3s or layups and dunks. But fail to see how he's necessary on the defensive end. I hope they win it all, but it'll be by chucking up 40 3s a game not playing good defense or team basketball.

Too many excuses. Nigeria is made up of black Americans. Australia revealed
that this team is poor constituted and coached. There is no reason why any
team of black American players should lose to any team of white Australians.

 

[Raeeb7]

Having said this, I wish Nigeria well. At least the Nigerians are genetically of
Nigerian origin. This is more than can be said for Bernard Lagat who ran for
the US after running for Kenya; or the many Kenyans running for Bahrain whose
services were purchased at a million dollars each. One of these characters holds
the men's 3000m steeple chase record. He had been Steven Cherono before
being bought by Bahrain, renamed Saif Saheed Shaheen, and going by that
identity to set the world record.

Nigeria as country only been in business since 1960. They don't have no damn genetic origin. Bunch of different tribes speaking totally down languages. Stop playing games.

 

[Nzinga]

Nigeria as country only been in business since 1960. They don't have no damn genetic origin. Bunch of different tribes speaking totally down languages. Stop playing games.

Please do not comment on African history ever again.
You do not know anything.

King Gunguma

The kingdom is traditionally said to date from the 11th century, when King Gunguma founded it as one of the original Hausa Bakwai (Seven True Hausa States). As the southernmost state of the seven, it had the function of capturing slaves for all Hausa Bakwai, especially for the northern markets of Kano and Katsina.

The people who lived in Yorubaland, at least by the seventh century BC, were not initially known as the Yoruba, although they shared a common ethnicity and language group. The historical Yoruba develop in situ, out of earlier (Mesolithic) Volta-Niger populations, by the 1st millennium BC.[3]
Archaeologically, the settlement at Ile-Ife can be dated to the 4th century BC, with urban structures appearing in the 8th-10th Centuries. "Between 700 and 900 A.D. the city began to develop as a major artistic center," And "by the 12th Century Ife artists were creating bronze, stone, and terracotta sculptures." The phase of Ile-Ife before the rise of Oyo, ca. 1100–1600, is sometimes described as a "golden age" of Ile-Ife.[4]

Igbo-Ukwu (ca. 9th Century)

Alice Apley
Independent Scholar
October 2001
It is possible that the inhabitants of Igbo-Ukwu had a metalworking art that flourished as early as the ninth century (though this date remains controversial). Three sites have been excavated, revealing hundreds of ritual vessels and regalia castings of bronze or leaded bronze that are among the most inventive and technically accomplished bronzes ever made. The people of Igbo-Ukwu, ancestors of present-day Igbo, were the earliest smithers of copper and its alloys in West Africa, working the metal through hammering, bending, twisting, and incising. They are likely among the earliest groups of West Africans to employ the lost-wax casting techniques in the production of bronze sculptures. Oddly, evidence suggests that their metalworking repertoire was limited and Igbo smiths were not familiar with techniques such as raising, soldering, riveting, and wire making, though these techniques were used elsewhere on the contine

 

[therealjondoe]

Too many excuses. Nigeria is made up of black Americans. Australia revealed
that this team is poor constituted and coached. There is no reason why any
team of black American players should lose to any team of white Australians.

They do have 6 nba players to be fare

 

[Deezz]

 

[pookie]

People kill me with this "NBA is soft" bullshit.

The NBA is “SOFT”, the players cry and whine after every call, flop as soon as someone touches them, the refs know they are flopping but still blow the whistle. If you watched the game on Sunday Suns player Cam Johnson went to the ground and started rolling around in pain, he tried to get up but was in so much pain he went back down, it was so bad they had to take a TV timeou. when they showed the replay nobody had even touched him so they thought maybe it was one of those no touch injuries to his leg BUT THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN HE WAS BACK IN THE GAME LIKE NOTHNG HAD HAPPENED!!! You can see that same scenario every game

 

[KingTaharqa]

They do have 6 nba players to be fare

Team USA has 13 including KD. The reality is too many NBA superstars are overrated without NBA refs and suck at being leaders of men. No grit or toughness whatsoever.

 

[therealjondoe]

 

[pookie]

So why are people crying as if a team made of players born and trained
strictly in Maiduguri, Kaduna and Enugwu are the ones who defeated the
US?

‘Because all they see is the name “NIGERIA”, like you said that team is made up of American players who didn’t make the NBA cut or mostly ride NBA benches, the names aren’t familiar so people think they are really Nigerian born, raised and currently reside there

 

[KingTaharqa]

 

[2missedcalls]

When two men have to explain to ref to let us be men...
It's the rules and the refs not so much the players.


That flopping shit though

 

[geechiedan]

‘Because all they see is the name “NIGERIA”, like you said that team is made up of American players who didn’t make the NBA cut or mostly ride NBA benches, the names aren’t familiar so people think they are really Nigerian born, raised and currently reside there

‘Because all they see is the name “NIGERIA”, like you said that team is made up of American players who didn’t make the NBA cut or mostly ride NBA benches, the names aren’t familiar so people think they are really Nigerian born, raised and currently reside there

its not about nigeria its about the USA team made up of nba all stars losing to anyone... it could have been the republic of togo or austrailia...its about them losing not who beat them.

 

[Nzinga]

‘Because all they see is the name “NIGERIA”, like you said that team is made up of American players who didn’t make the NBA cut or mostly ride NBA benches, the names aren’t familiar so people think they are really Nigerian born, raised and currently reside there

When you take Nigerians born in the US, like Bam Adebayo, Oladipo,
Iguodala etc, Nigeria has a team that can give the US a run for its money,
especially if Giannis chooses to play for it. If you take the Nigerians who
are in Nigeria and form a team, they struggle to beat Rwanda, or Kenya or
Angola or South Sudan. Each of these teams would have its head handed
to it by an average high school basketball team from the US

 

[woodchuck]

Each of these teams would have its head handed
to it by an average high school basketball team from the US

You was doing good until you got here.

 

[Nzinga]

You was doing good until you got here.

That is how awful I think African basketball is.

 

[woodchuck]

That is how awful I think African basketball is.

Fair enough. I watched the African basketball league games, and they're not great, but they're not THAT horrible.

 

[tanks1]

practice....we talking about practice

 

[Nzinga]

Fair enough. I watched the African basketball league games, and they're not great, but they're not THAT horrible.

You understand the game better than I do

 

[therealjondoe]

 

[jroc007]

Still not worried... They will be adding Booker and Middleton in a couple of weeks.