Best USA Team Since Dream Team?
It could be. Now I have some serious gripes when I watch these guys play but I’m not sure how much of it is straight personal bias. I love watching these guys play together for the most part with the other part being when Kobe Bryant gets the ball. I watched a game last week when Lebron James didn’t get a shot for minutes while Kobe was trying to dribble around player after player. I wonder if they ever remind him that they aren’t in LA. The straw that stirs this teams drink is James. He is one of the few guys that makes everyone else better out there. He has what Magic and Larry had as a player. Size and all around ability. He can’t help but pass to an open player. When he is on the top of the zones I feel very confident that someone will get a wide open shot or a dunk. They have fast breaks all game long with James, Bryant and Anthony and that is as close to as good as it gets.
The best thing the country has done is gone to a program. I can see the difference and as much as I dislike his game at times, Bryant is the teams leader on the court. The players clearly look to him for guidance and Bryant expects it out of himself. But the program being established has set the tone and with the crushing of Argentina on Sunday by 37 points the USA has sent the message that they are back.
With a guaranteed Olympic spot and the odds on favorites to win the gold we can only hope that no injuries take place except to Tyson Chandler (just kidding), maybe that way we can get another big man or two to help Stoudamire as a scoring threat. Teams let Howard go one on one all game and they don’t even sniff at Chandler when he’s out there. Let’s just hope no injuries take place and that the USA brings home the gold in 2008.
