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Fud

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  1. He's a lot better going forward around the line of scrimmage
  2. This wasn't a Sark thing. This was a Ewers thing.
  3. SIAP, but Mixon is back practicing
  4. I'll take a way too early stab. Starters in bold G: Ant Edwards, Devin Booker, Tyrese Maxey, Desmond Bane, Jalen Suggs W: Jason Tatum, Paolo Banchero, Brandon Miller, Kevin Durant 'C: Chet Holmgren, Bam Adebayo, Dereck Lively II
  5. After Holiday ages out, Suggs will likely be the best ball pressuring guard option, and if he's shooting threes, then he should be an option. Some of these teams don't have high quality guard play, and you can completely disrupt their offense with ball pressure on their point guard There are a dozen great guards the US team can choose from, but the better you are without the ball and the better you are defensively, the more you separate from the others
  6. All of those young guys will still be young, and some won't pay out. Traore might not even pan out, or he might not be ready for the big stage yet. They'll be scary because of Wemba though, plus Risacher and Coulibaly should be solid NBA starters by that point
  7. Those were his Tennessee stats through two games before he got to Houston
  8. These beta nerds never finished a dungeon in D&D
  9. France's big leap will be in 2032. If their young guys pan out, they might have a chance at surpassing the US for that cycle. . Wemba might be the best player in the world in 2028, but the rest of their roster will either be really young or really old. Canada will probably be the competition in four years; they'll be able to fill a roster with 12 NBA players who play regularly while being led by Shai I'm assuming Jokic won't be elite in four years, and Luka and Giannis won't have good teammates
  10. Fairly certain that Embiid was trolling France I'll be shocked if Embiid is in good form in four years. He already runs like a 40 year old man There are other small athletic guards who are better shooters and defenders, and who are less of a headache. Like Maxey.
  11. He played pretty well at times for Houston last year
  12. I mean, he could immediately make his team better by hiring a non-shitty OC
  13. They're both talented, but Zion doesn't defend, doesn't shoot threes, and doesn't stay healthy, and Flagg will be 21 years old. I'd say Flagg might have the better shot of the two
  14. Non Curry USA players shot 46.2% from three in the tournament. Curry shot 46.8% The shorter FIBA line is easy money for a lot of NBA stars
  15. Ideally sure, but that's probably not reality. The all-NBA types would rather have the summer off than play in the World Cup, especially if they're coming off of deep playoff runs
  16. Random note I just heard (I'm not fact checking it).. all Iowa defensive starters are at least 22 years old
  17. I don't really agree. The US can field a team of about 8-10 players who can knock down open or mildly contested FIBA threes at a 50% clip plus a few more who can do it at a 40% clip Steph is the best shooter of all time, but the US can still fill the court with nothing but good FIBA three point shooters
  18. I've been thinking about the future of the US Olympics team, because there's a good chance we won't see this level of talent (three all time top 15 players, plus three more current top ~10 players in the world in Embiid, Ant, and Tatum, and several more top fifteens in Booker, AD, Haliburton, etc, plus Holiday who's been a excellent national team player) again for a very long time I think there are three ways to build this next team out 1) Just put the best and most senior NBA players on the roster, and plan on out-talenting everyone. This team is built around Ant, Tatum, Booker, and Embiid plus other elite shot creators like Brown, Brunson, Kyrie, Mitchell, Fox, Zion, etc. It's not necessarily all iso ball, but it's much more static than we see most of these national teams play. Probably a lot of post-ups, pick and rolls, and 5-out iso dribble drives 2) Prioritize players who can both catch-and-shoot threes at a high level and also defend. This past gold-winning team shot 46% from three across the tournament, and I thought that shooting ability was ultimately the biggest reason for sweeping the tournament. Even if you're a bit of a ball stopper/surveyor but supreme shot creator, if you can catch and shoot at a high level, it's fine. That's past team did have some defensive holes, with the most obvious one being Steph but also Embiid's inability to close out on three point shooters. This team isn't necessarily just taking the best NBA players, but just a bunch of players who don't have weaknesses within FIBA ball. The biggest question is which players can be your offensive hubs in four years? This strategy leaves out Tatum (shooting) and Embiid (defensive switching), small guards who'll get picked on defensively, and any other non-catch and shooters 3) A hybrid of the two, with a couple of primary offensive hubs surrounded by role players. This is the strategy of the recent gold-winning team, but without the three all-timers I prefer option two, but I don't see them going that way, and it'll probably be one or three
  19. He's a good power scheme runner, and a terrible zone runner. If Mixon is healthy, they should trade Pierce
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