Originally Posted by
Eddy Munny
You're an utter moron. If it's the mentality that has changed and nothing more, then you're saying the NBA is riddled with ADD or else why haven't they flipped the switch? One close game and perhaps you can roll that out there as an excuse, but we've seen close games on the regular, by a stable of players who are in Rio to do one job and one job only... hell, if they braved the Zika virus threat just to play basketball abroad, wouldn't you assume their focus to be razor sharp?
As far as bringing in less talented players, you should just donate your brain to science. You're basically the Straw Man from The Wizard of Oz. Less talented players is CWD's excuse for games being so close to begin with, and now you want to buck your comrade's logic and actually take the opposite action? Lol, I'd like to see your hand-picked slate of players best suited to represent the States in international play.
It's obvious to anyone who knows a lick of basketball that a team of collegians in this day and age would get ran out of the building, so what are you suggesting? An army of D-leaguers? It was only 14 years ago that a "lesser" talented Team USA laid an egg at the FIBA World Championships, placing a dismal SIXTH in that competition and the subsequent squad earning only a bronze medal at the Olympics two years later.
Considering the scares USA has already had in this year's Olympics, I don't think the solution is to send Mario Chalmers and Spencer Hawes in to save the day, dummy.