Team USA men's basketball falls to France in Olympics

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[janetjanet998]

Team USA was fried by the French in a stunning men’s basketball opening loss at the Tokyo Olympics.

The Americans led Team France by seven with under four minutes remaining, but the French scored the next 14 points for a shocking 83-76 victory at Saitama Super Arena.

Nets star Kevin Durant was in early foul trouble and finished with 10 points on 4-for-12 shooting in 21 minutes before fouling out in the closing seconds. Jrue Holiday net a team-high 18 and Bam Adebayo adding 12.

[dfwgator]

Well there’s really not much need to import them anymore. Pretty much they’re all born there now.

[Tallguy]

Kids just out of college... and most of them with NHL contracts and delayed reporting dates.

[NWFree]

Justice warriors lose to pantywaists lol 😂

[razorback-bert]

Street ball loses to Basketball

[dfwgator]

I’m still upset that they overlooked great Japanese Olympians from the past, like Shun Fujimoto, who nailed his landing with a broken leg to help Japan with the Men’s Team Gymnastics Gold Medal, and instead, had some Gaijin, who hadn’t even lived in Japan, since she was 3, and can barely speak the language, light the Olympic Flame, all just because she was heavy into the BLM-crap.

That pissed off a lot of Japanese.

[SmokingJoe]

True.

[Tallguy]

Curious, Did you see that documentary “Ice Guardians”? What’d you think?

[DoodleBob]

Years ago someone recommended that I watch a documentary on the Summit Series/Super Series. I'm a lifelong Flyers fan so I had a vested interest with Bobby Clarke being on the Canadian team. But the documentary was so rich, so detailed, and so wonderfully assembled that it conveyed the ups, downs, emotions, and sense of the importance and time in history. Americans - nay, all men and women who love freedom - should all cheer "Henderson has scored for Canada!" when they see that picture.

Maybe I also felt a similar sense of "brotherhood" because the Flyers played the Russian Red Army in 1976 and beat them (literally and figuratively). The score was 4-1 but the Bullies brand of demolition derby hockey made an impression during the Cold War. Ed Van Impe will never have to pay for a drink in Philadelphia.

The Philadelphia fans - notoriously bad people, all of us - loved our Canadian players and the feeling was mutual. THAT is what's missing from sports (and a lot of other things) nowadays, a mutual kinship and love. We don't have to agree upon everything, but there must be a baseline level of connective tissue - call it culture, call it whatever. The left has severed that tissue across multiple dimensions, but has blamed the right for that moral crime and the MSM et al are willing accomplices in that cover-up.

Small wonder nobody GAF about the Olympics in 2021.

[dfwgator]

What I really liked about the Broad Street Bullies documentary, was that it was back at a time when players were a part of the community. Even the blacks in Philadelphia embraced the Flyers, when is the last time you saw blacks engage with a Hockey team like that?

[Bonemaker]

The American will and spirit at all levels has been crushed by the democrats beginning with the Obama years. I fear it has infected even our revered military and we may be in for unpleasant times.

[dfwgator]

Taking down the Kate Smith Statue was the last straw.

[Alberta's Child]

Never saw it but I heard good things about it. What did you think? Any dominant messages or themes?

[butlerweave]

These guys don’t even want to be there.

Most want to be there to lose as many medals as they can thinking it will bring the US to it’s knees like them ,LOL

[caww]

Frankly I see this happening in my family lineage. The goal is to create doubt, not that you have to believe what’s being hammered out there, just that you question your own beliefs...apologize a lot...or keep quiet otherwise.

[BozoTexino]

Haha!

[Tallguy]

There was a CBC Hockey Documentary about the NHL in the 50’s entitled “Net Worth”. The central focus was on the Red Wings led by Terrible Ted Lindsay. Gordie Howe is a big farmboy rookie on that team.

Anyway, the game was different. Every player — if he was to survive — had to be able to defend himself. There was a lot of doubt in Montreal that Maurice Richard was “Tough enough” for the Game.

So my theory on Enforces was that with the league expansion in 1966 the league doubled. Gifted offensive players from the AHL were suddenly getting called up, but these guys weren’t particularly NHL tough. So the Bruins (to pick a team) starts putting tough players around their stars and the really new teams (Flyers) get schwacked. Ed Snider basically vows that his team will never be run off the ice again, and the Enforcers era begins.

The Flyers had just enough offensive talent to win a couple of Cups. But then you had the super teams... first Montreal, then the Islanders, Oilers & Penguins. There was by this time a formal Enforcer slot on all teams otherwise Wayne Gretzky would not have had the career he ended up having.

[Tallguy]

Basically that the Enforcer Era came about as a natural consequence of the 1966 NHL Expansion when the talent got thin. And if you look at the Flyers, as the prime example, this would seem to be true. They had to build a wall around Bobby Clarke otherwise he’d have had a very short career. Scrappy player, but slight and diabetic. Probably a guy who would have topped out in the AHL had the NHL remained a 6-team league.

[Bonemaker]

It’s diabolical on many levels.

[bray]

Je Suis France!

[rollo tomasi]

If this was the Gold Medal game the headline would read: ‘Rudy Gobert Shuts-down the United States Again’.

For background:

NBA suspends season after Jazz center Rudy Gobert tests positive for coronavirus