Olympic Basketball: Lithuania beats US!!

[The Mad Monk]

I wonder if we will field a team that actually gives a damn next time.

[dudemanjack]

Just send whoever wins the NBA championship. At least they would already be a team with a coach they know.

[academia]

WE WON

Next time... when you think about FIBA basketball... please, don´t look at Europe... not serbia-montenegro, not lithuania or spain... look down... to the south... to ARGENTINA

REMEMBER THAT

[Dis]

congrats.

Great playing.

[Guynemer]

Originally posted by dudemanjack
Just send whoever wins the NBA championship. At least they would already be a team with a coach they know.

The irony is that Team USA's coach is the the coach of the defending NBA champs, the Detroit Pistons.

A couple of Pistons were invited to play, but they declined. They would have shored up the team's most obvious weaknesses, jump-shooting (Rip Hamilton) and interior defense (Ben Wallace).

[OzzyKP]

Well we still got something. But I saw this quote in an article on AOL:

Strange stuff, but not quite as weird as the Americans dropping three games after they had lost only two in the previous 68 years. It's the first time since pro players were added for the 1992 Dream Team that the United States is going home without gold.

Holy **** is that true?! Did the USA basketball really only loose 2 games in 68 years? That's insane! That can't be true.

[Ted Striker]

They have lost 2 games since allowing professional players.

Before that the US got silver in 1988 and I believe 1976

Both times losing to the Russians

[Drake Tungsten]

No, they had only lost two games total in Olympic play up until this year, with amateurs and pros. College players lost twice to the Russians, in 1972 and 1988. Pros had never lost a game in the Olympics, until this year.

[Ted Striker]

I said it first though.

[Drake Tungsten]

You were wrong, though, playa...

[Ted Striker]

Yeah but I said, "I believe" 1976

[Drake Tungsten]

They have lost 2 games since allowing professional players.

That's the wrong part, stud.

The pros hadn't lost a single game in the Olympics until this year. Now they've lost 3...

[Ted Striker]

No it's not

The 2 games includes this year.

"Since allowing professional players" = 1992 to present

[academia]

in olympic games they lost in 1972 and 1988 with college players.
this year, with NBA players, they lost 3 times.

[Drake Tungsten]

We lost 3 this year...

And if you're talking about games played by pros outside the Olympics, we lost 3 at the World Championships in Indianapolis in addition to the two losses in warmups this year. So it's 5 losses outside Olympic competition and now 3 in Olympic competition.