29-08-2004 03:43									#61
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I wonder if we will field a team that actually gives a damn next time.

	29-08-2004 03:50									#62
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Just send whoever wins the NBA championship. At least they would already be a team with a coach they know.

	29-08-2004 04:04									#63
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WE WON

Next time... when you think about FIBA basketball... please, donīt look at Europe... not serbia-montenegro, not lithuania or spain... look down... to the south... to ARGENTINA

REMEMBER THAT

	29-08-2004 06:06									#64
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congrats.

Great playing.

	29-08-2004 06:10									#65
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quote: Originally posted by dudemanjack Just send whoever wins the NBA championship. At least they would already be a team with a coach they know.

The irony is that Team USA's coach is the the coach of the defending NBA champs, the Detroit Pistons.

A couple of Pistons were invited to play, but they declined. They would have shored up the team's most obvious weaknesses, jump-shooting (Rip Hamilton) and interior defense (Ben Wallace).

	29-08-2004 09:39									#66
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Well we still got something. But I saw this quote in an article on AOL:

quote: Strange stuff, but not quite as weird as the Americans dropping three games after they had lost only two in the previous 68 years. It's the first time since pro players were added for the 1992 Dream Team that the United States is going home without gold.

Holy **** is that true?! Did the USA basketball really only loose 2 games in 68 years? That's insane! That can't be true.

	29-08-2004 09:45									#67
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They have lost 2 games since allowing professional players.

Before that the US got silver in 1988 and I believe 1976

Both times losing to the Russians

	29-08-2004 09:48									#68
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No, they had only lost two games total in Olympic play up until this year, with amateurs and pros. College players lost twice to the Russians, in 1972 and 1988. Pros had never lost a game in the Olympics, until this year.

	29-08-2004 09:56									#69
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I said it first though.

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You were wrong, though, playa...

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Yeah but I said, "I believe" 1976

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quote: They have lost 2 games since allowing professional players.

That's the wrong part, stud.

The pros hadn't lost a single game in the Olympics until this year. Now they've lost 3...

	29-08-2004 10:12									#73
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No it's not

The 2 games includes this year.

"Since allowing professional players" = 1992 to present

	29-08-2004 10:13									#74
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in olympic games they lost in 1972 and 1988 with college players.
this year, with NBA players, they lost 3 times.

	29-08-2004 10:14									#75
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We lost 3 this year...

And if you're talking about games played by pros outside the Olympics, we lost 3 at the World Championships in Indianapolis in addition to the two losses in warmups this year. So it's 5 losses outside Olympic competition and now 3 in Olympic competition.

	29-08-2004 10:21									#76
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quote: Originally posted by Drake Tungsten No, they had only lost two games total in Olympic play up until this year, with amateurs and pros. College players lost twice to the Russians, in 1972 and 1988. Pros had never lost a game in the Olympics, until this year.

That is just remarkable. So in 68 years the US got 14 golds, 2 silvers and 1 bronze? And only lost 5 games total? That is amazing. Has there ever been such a dominant streak in any Olympic sport by any country?

	29-08-2004 10:22									#77
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Well we were talking about games up until this loss, in the Olympics, using professional players.

Which was 2 losses.

	29-08-2004 10:24									#78
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Using professional players, before this year, it was 0 losses.

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quote: That is just remarkable. So in 68 years the US got 14 golds, 2 silvers and 1 bronze? And only lost 5 games total?

Sort of. The medal counts might be wrong. Number of losses are right, though.

quote: That is amazing.

Not for Americans.

quote: Has there ever been such a dominant streak in any Olympic sport by any country?

No.

	29-08-2004 11:29									#80
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if i correctly recall the medal counts for USA in basketball is: 12 gold, 1 silver (1972) and 2 bronzes (1988 and 2004).
The other gold winners are: USSR 1972 and 1988, Yugoslavia 1980 and Argentina 2004.

	30-08-2004 11:10									#81
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quote: Originally posted by academia WE WON Next time... when you think about FIBA basketball... please, donīt look at Europe... not serbia-montenegro, not lithuania or spain... look down... to the south... to ARGENTINA REMEMBER THAT [

PURE DUMB LUCK!

	30-08-2004 11:11									#82
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So where the hell was Z???

	30-08-2004 12:57									#83
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quote: Originally posted by Ted Striker So where the hell was Z???

Z's a er

	30-08-2004 23:38									#84
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quote: PURE DUMB LUCK!

That shows your ignorance about argentine basketball success in the 2001-2004 period.

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Z has chronic foot problems plus I think he is coming up on a contract year. Now that the US has lost, perhaps they will change the way they pick teams. I think the US might have won Gold if they had substituted Bruce Bowen and Brent Barry for Emeka Okafor and Carmelo Anthony. The real collapse was Serbia Montenegro. They have some major dissension problems between the players and coach. I am sure that is why Vlade Divac and Peja Stojakovic were not on the team and why they finished so badly.

	31-08-2004 07:58									#86
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pchang, I agree with you completely

The US still could have won the gold easily

And I also was totally surprised by the fascists Serbs collapsing

Regarding Z, I thought his foot problems, were solved, and that he had already been traded. Guess I was wrong.

	31-08-2004 10:34									#87
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quote: Originally posted by pchang Z has chronic foot problems plus I think he is coming up on a contract year. Now that the US has lost, perhaps they will change the way they pick teams. I think the US might have won Gold if they had substituted Bruce Bowen and Brent Barry for Emeka Okafor and Carmelo Anthony. The real collapse was Serbia Montenegro. They have some major dissension problems between the players and coach. I am sure that is why Vlade Divac and Peja Stojakovic were not on the team and why they finished so badly.

Sabonis played for the national team with constant searing pain in his achilles.

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	01-09-2004 04:02									#89
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did the U.S. get the bronze?

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quote: Originally posted by academia if i correctly recall the medal counts for USA in basketball is: 12 gold, 1 silver (1972) and 2 bronzes (1988 and 2004). The other gold winners are: USSR 1972 and 1988, Yugoslavia 1980 and Argentina 2004.

That can't be right if we only lost twice. I think that Yugoslavia one is wrong.