USA Basketball announces final roster for 2012 Olympics

[james81]

Nominated for the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team were: Carmelo Anthony (New York Knicks); Kobe Bryant (Los Angeles Lakers); Tyson Chandler (New York Knicks); Kevin Durant (Oklahoma City Thunder); Blake Griffin (Los Angeles Clippers); James Harden (Oklahoma City Thunder); Andre Iguodala (Philadelphia 76ers); LeBron James (Miami Heat); Kevin Love (Minnesota Timberwolves); Chris Paul (Los Angeles Clippers); Russell Westbrook (Oklahoma City Thunder); and Deron Williams (Brooklyn Nets).

The USA roster features five members of the 2008 gold medalist U.S. Olympic Team (Anthony, Bryant, James, Paul and Williams), five members of the gold medalist 2010 World Championship team (Chandler, Durant, Iguodala, Love and Westbrook), and two newcomers (Griffin and Harden).

http://www.nba.com/2012/news/07/07/t...s=iref:nbahpt1

[Sure Shot]

Not enough bigs, no post defense besides Chandler. What the heck are they thinking? Instead of adding another superfluous wing player like Harden or Iguodala, why not Anthony Davis, or Andrew Bynum? Or heck, even Taj Gibson or Marcus Camby?

Congrats to DWill though. Hopefully he can bring home another gold.

[DanvIllini]

Originally Posted by Sure Shot

Not enough bigs, no post defense besides Chandler. What the heck are they thinking? Instead of adding another superfluous wing player like Harden or Iguodala, why not Anthony Davis, or Andrew Bynum? Or heck, even Taj Gibson or Marcus Camby?

Supposedly it came down to Anthony Davis and Blake Griffin.

[Mark Seifert]

Originally Posted by Sure Shot

Not enough bigs, no post defense besides Chandler. What the heck are they thinking? Instead of adding another superfluous wing player like Harden or Iguodala, why not Anthony Davis, or Andrew Bynum?

Hard to see K putting up with Bynum. That's drama waiting to happen.

[DrewD007]

Probably good they didn't take Eric Gordon cause he probably would've defected to Canada once the team got to London.

[Sure Shot]

Originally Posted by Mark Seifert

Hard to see K putting up with Bynum. That's drama waiting to happen.

As opposed to Blake Griffin who is Pau Gasol layups waiting to happen.

It's interesting to see the tension between the two big "Things We Learned in 2004" that Colangelo and Coach K have been cleaning up for the past several years. The first is that Team USA has to be an actual team, that's familiar with playing with one another, plays a real rotation, etc. The other one is that the roster makeup actually has to make sense, we can't just send an All-Star team out there and expect to out-talent everyone.

We're sacrificing the latter for the former on this team. These are the 12 best guys in the Team USA system, but no one would ever construct an NBA team this way.

Rotten luck that Bosh and Howard got hurt, of course, but excluding Anthony Davis because "he couldn't scrimmage with the team" is just compounding the problem. He doesn't need to be the lynchpin, he just needs to play 10 minutes off the bench and protect the rim, so we don't have to play Love and Griffin at the same time.

[bmb777]

Originally Posted by DrewD007

Probably good they didn't take Eric Gordon cause he probably would've defected to Canada once the team got to London.

I don't know who that is.

[davidlee930]

Anyone know where I can find the box score for USA games?

[davidlee930]

Deron with 6 pts 11 assists

[Dan]

The schedule/results/stats of USA Basketball in July (before the Olympics)-

http://www.usabasketball.com/mens/na...t_results.html

[KBLEE]

Who's the genius that decided to Photoshop the stools out, but only for the middle three?