So Exactly Who Should Be On The '08 Olympic Team?

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  • bateman11
    MVP
    • Jul 2004
    • 1729

    #16
    Re: So Exactly Who Should Be On The '08 Olympic Team?

    PG: Paul
    SG: Bryant
    SF: James
    PF: Stoudemire
    C: Howard

    2nd Unit
    PG: Arenas
    SG: Wade
    SF: Pierce
    PF: Bosh
    C: G.Odon
    G: Billups
    F: Odom

    Melo shouldn't be on this team.
    PSN: rose2kobe24

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    • MassNole
      Banned
      • Mar 2006
      • 18848

      #17
      Re: So Exactly Who Should Be On The '08 Olympic Team?

      Originally posted by bateman11
      PG: Paul
      SG: Bryant
      SF: James
      PF: Stoudemire
      C: Howard

      2nd Unit
      PG: Arenas
      SG: Wade
      SF: Pierce
      PF: Bosh
      C: G.Odon
      G: Billups
      F: Odom

      Melo shouldn't be on this team.
      He bailed the US out a couple of times, putting Pierce there over him would be a joke.

      Here would be my team
      PG - Chauncey Billups
      SG - Dwyane Wade
      SF - Lebron James
      PF - Amare Stoudemire
      C - Dwight Howard

      Bench
      PG - Chris Paul
      SG - Ben Gordon
      SF - Carmelo Anthony
      PF - Emeka Okafor
      C - Chris Bosh
      Utility - Josh Howard
      Utility - Greg Oden

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      • bateman11
        MVP
        • Jul 2004
        • 1729

        #18
        Re: So Exactly Who Should Be On The '08 Olympic Team?

        Where is Kobe? I can see putting Wade over him but Ben Gordon?
        PSN: rose2kobe24

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        • bamalam
          MVP
          • Nov 2002
          • 1407

          #19
          Re: So Exactly Who Should Be On The '08 Olympic Team?

          keep anthony, bosh, b miller, howard, battier

          guys I'd like to see try out:

          atl-j johnson, claxton, shelden williams
          bos -pp
          cha- morrison
          chi -
          cle -james
          dal - howard
          den -
          det -
          gs - murphy
          hous - tmac
          ind - j oneal,m daniels
          lac - livingston, maggette,
          lal -
          mem - gay
          mia - wade, haslem
          mil - redd,
          min - kg, hassell, foye?
          nj -
          no - cp3, b jackson, chandler
          ny - r balkman,frye, d lee
          orl - reddick
          phi -
          pho- amare, bell
          por - dixon, roy?, aldridge?
          sac -artest
          sea - allen, lewis, wilcox, d wilkins
          tor - anthony parker
          utah - d williams,boozer
          was - butler

          going thru the nba list, it is amazing how many foreign guys are playing in the nba now.

          ?s for me, are guys i havent seen play too much

          plus next 2 yrs of rookies coming in, should have a couple guys

          i think guys like haslem, bell , balkman would translate very well to fiba. morrison would be a great addition, and reddick would probably be a star in fiba.

          interested to see parker play. he apparently dominated overseas. his experience would help

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          • Blaxican8504
            All Star
            • Jul 2002
            • 4150

            #20
            Re: So Exactly Who Should Be On The '08 Olympic Team?

            Fundamentally sound basketball players.

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            • luv_mist
              Older
              • May 2004
              • 9596

              #21
              Re: So Exactly Who Should Be On The '08 Olympic Team?

              Originally posted by MassNole
              He bailed the US out a couple of times, putting Pierce there over him would be a joke.

              Here would be my team
              PG - Chauncey Billups
              SG - Dwyane Wade
              SF - Lebron James
              PF - Amare Stoudemire
              C - Dwight Howard

              Bench
              PG - Chris Paul
              SG - Ben Gordon
              SF - Carmelo Anthony
              PF - Emeka Okafor
              C - Chris Bosh
              Utility - Josh Howard
              Utility - Greg Oden
              No offense but you say Carmelo over Pierce?? Are you freaking serious?? You can't be serious. And you have Greg Oden?? That kind of makes no sense at all.

              Kobe will be on the team and that will work out well. Take Chris Paul off of that team because he's not a good outside shooter. They need a guard who can hit more. There are so many people they should have asked to be on that team. They should have put freaking Artest on there. They needed more postup players. I like Miller but they needed someone else there that was a little more athletic and mentally focused to bang downlow. They needed more people to work that post and a more solid 1. And they needed to get a more qualified coach who knows more about international play.......

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              • Tha_Kid
                All Star
                • Oct 2002
                • 6550

                #22
                Re: So Exactly Who Should Be On The '08 Olympic Team?

                Originally posted by bateman11
                Where is Kobe? I can see putting Wade over him but Ben Gordon?
                You know that completely unfounded hate you have for Carmelo? He has that for Kobe & Pierce..

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                • cjonesfan921
                  UGH, next year
                  • Jan 2005
                  • 20081

                  #23
                  Re: So Exactly Who Should Be On The '08 Olympic Team?

                  PG - Paul
                  SG - James
                  SF - Anthony
                  PF - Stoudamire
                  C - Howard

                  2nd Unit
                  PG - Hinrich
                  SG - Wade
                  SF - Pierce
                  PF - Bosh
                  C - Oden
                  Util - J.Howard
                  Util - Arenas

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                  • poster
                    All Star
                    • Nov 2003
                    • 7506

                    #24
                    Re: So Exactly Who Should Be On The '08 Olympic Team?

                    If his play doesn't decline, Billups should be the PG in 08.

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                    • 23
                      yellow
                      • Sep 2002
                      • 66469

                      #25
                      Re: So Exactly Who Should Be On The '08 Olympic Team?

                      Originally posted by luv_mist
                      No offense but you say Carmelo over Pierce?? Are you freaking serious?? You can't be serious. And you have Greg Oden?? That kind of makes no sense at all.

                      Kobe will be on the team and that will work out well. Take Chris Paul off of that team because he's not a good outside shooter. They need a guard who can hit more. There are so many people they should have asked to be on that team. They should have put freaking Artest on there. They needed more postup players. I like Miller but they needed someone else there that was a little more athletic and mentally focused to bang downlow. They needed more people to work that post and a more solid 1. And they needed to get a more qualified coach who knows more about international play.......
                      Without sufficient cutters, that post player will rendered useless

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                      • WilliamWilliamson
                        Pro
                        • Nov 2005
                        • 690

                        #26
                        Re: So Exactly Who Should Be On The '08 Olympic Team?

                        I don't think we need to send our best players to win. The team we fielded was fine and the offense wasn't a problem at all. They did fine offensively. It was the defense that cost them. They went 11-1 for the tournament but unfortunately lost one of the games that mattered. They spanked the 2004 olympic gold medalists and took home the bronze. Give them a couple years to get more accustomed to playing with each other and playing under those rules and they'll be able to dominate the 2008 olympics.

                        Hopefully we keep this current system in place, that's the only way we can have success. To keep these guys playing together and practicing with each other over the summer. We can't just throw together 12 guys right before a tournament starts.

                        With the international rules, the evolvement of the international players, and the fact that these other teams play together their whole lives, it's going to take more to beat them. Not to mention, we couldn't put together a team as good as the dream team even if we wanted to. Team USA has a depth of talent and lots of great players, but they don't have 12 guys like those 12.

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                        • Brankles
                          Banned
                          • May 2003
                          • 5113

                          #27
                          Re: So Exactly Who Should Be On The '08 Olympic Team?

                          I'm pretty sure if we got the top 15 players in the NBA, we would beat the rest of the world.

                          Kobe, TMac, Kidd, Lebron, Shaq, Duncan, KG, Wade, Redd, Pierce, Anthony, Carter, Stoudemire, Dwight Howard... whoever, else is, or will be, a perennial All-NBA player... and we would win out of sheer talent.

                          The team we sent wasn't talented enough to win just by being better. That team needed better chemistry and probably Billy Donovan as their coach instead of Coach K

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                          • WilliamWilliamson
                            Pro
                            • Nov 2005
                            • 690

                            #28
                            Re: So Exactly Who Should Be On The '08 Olympic Team?

                            Originally posted by Brankles
                            I'm pretty sure if we got the top 15 players in the NBA, we would beat the rest of the world.

                            Kobe, TMac, Kidd, Lebron, Shaq, Duncan, KG, Wade, Redd, Pierce, Anthony, Carter, Stoudemire, Dwight Howard... whoever, else is, or will be, a perennial All-NBA player... and we would win out of sheer talent.

                            The team we sent wasn't talented enough to win just by being better. That team needed better chemistry and probably Billy Donovan as their coach instead of Coach K
                            If we're going to try to just win off of talent alone, we could have sent a more talented team and might have pulled it off. In fact, that's what we tried to do. We asked all those top guys and they said no.

                            That's not the best way to win though, I think we've got the right idea. The idea is that we're starting now for the 2008 olympics and it's a great idea. We acknowledged that just sending 12 allstars over there isn't the best way to win anymore. Basically, that's what we did, we sent 12 guys over there, but the twist is, those 12 guys will practice next summer, they'll practice again in 2008 leading up to the 2008 olympics. And when we win gold, I think the system will continue. Might be hard to find players willing to make that type of commitment, but it's the best way to go about winning.

                            I'm not sure we've got the right coach either, Coach K has always liked to rely on 1 player and has always been really stubborn.

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                            • Streets
                              Supreme
                              • Aug 2004
                              • 5787

                              #29
                              Re: So Exactly Who Should Be On The '08 Olympic Team?

                              Originally posted by Brankles
                              I'm pretty sure if we got the top 15 players in the NBA, we would beat the rest of the world.

                              Kobe, TMac, Kidd, Lebron, Shaq, Duncan, KG, Wade, Redd, Pierce, Anthony, Carter, Stoudemire, Dwight Howard... whoever, else is, or will be, a perennial All-NBA player... and we would win out of sheer talent.
                              Why does everyone always say that sending our best players is not the best way to win the gold?, that we need "a real team". I totally co-sign Brankles. If we sent our elite, we would mop the floor with the rest of the world, I dont care if they only had 3 days to practice together.

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                              • WilliamWilliamson
                                Pro
                                • Nov 2005
                                • 690

                                #30
                                Re: So Exactly Who Should Be On The '08 Olympic Team?

                                Originally posted by Streets
                                Why does everyone always say that sending our best players is not the best way to win the gold?, that we need "a real team". I totally co-sign Brankles. If we sent our elite, we would mop the floor with the rest of the world, I dont care if they only had 3 days to practice together.
                                It's not that we have to send a real team. I'm saying I think that team would have a chance, but they'd obviously have a better chance if they practiced together. Do that, and you get rid of any chance of coming home with anything other than gold.

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