[Jewels1091]

Whoever picked our team this year should be fired. This was awful!

[gortklattu]

The team was picked from those who were willing to compete. Although the wimmin were fired up, some men didn't want to risk their careers for needless and unpaying games.

That's the way it is.

[Bobby777]

I'll bet they went there thinking it was going to be a cakewalk. I support our atheletes but the men's basketball team has been underwhelming this year.

[kittymyrib]

I suggest that we go back to fielding a team of college all-stars who might give a flip. Being on the Olympic team is a small diversion to the collection of multimillionaires that we saw lose today. No doubt they were getting ready to play for the gold against China and Yao Ming and thought this one was in the bag. In a way, it's just as well because the anti-American cheering was depressing and the game was boring. At these games, it's fine for every team to exhibit in-your-face-nationalism except the USA. Even that twirp Arroyo was into this...and PR is an AMERICAN territory, at least it is when we feed 50% of them with welfare payments.

[jojodamofo]

There are few Americans in the NBA who know how to play defense, or how to respond to good defense when they are on offense. NBA basketball is hardly a team sport anymore -- it is a collection of individuals trying to outdo each other.

Hopefully Detroit embarrassing LA this year will turn it around a little bit.

[chainsaw]

What we saw was how to play basketball with no rebounding, no defense, no shooting, no teamwork, poor ball handling, and no coaching. Quite embarrassing IMHO.

What we need are some college boys that want to play ball.

[jimfree]

This morning on a local sports talk show one of the gents proposed that the economics of golf be practiced in each of the major team sports. Golfers have to earn a paycheck at each event. This year's stroke leader doesn't get paid next year (except endorsements) without finishing high enough in tournaments.

I suggest there are two things to wonder about here. Is the NBA not good enough anymore to win consistently in niternational competition? Can our athletes be coached into a sufficiently coherent team in the limited time they have together?

[My2Cents]

Correct. We need to return to sending our top amateurs (college players) -- people who actually want to be there. The NBA players spend too much time tripping over their own egos.

[jerry639]

It is outrageous but I blame it on a lot of high paid superstars not willing to play for their country. With this inexcusable loss, I will not watch even one NBA game this coming season. Will be hard to keep that promise to myself but I will do it. Any NBA player, who is eligible to play for the U.S.A. and was invited to play on the team, doesn't deserve to be supported. So, I am going to boycott the entire NBA season.

[Rakkasan1]

when Duncan is your best "shooter" you know you're screwed.
further proof the NBA has become just a rap video clip
of dunks and short on fundamentals.