So its basically confirmed USA are not gonnna win gold right...

So its basically confirmed USA are not gonnna win gold right? takes a 14+ offensive rebound difference and 9 threes from pic related to beat the fucking Boomers.

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uhh whos gonna beat them?

This USA team would most definitely get crushed by prime Spain, 2004 Argentina and probably by 1996 or 2002 Serbia. But teams competing right now are not as sharpened.

neither of those are abnormal occurrences

Sure roo, whatever gives you comfort.

Carmelo Anthony IS the Olympics. They're winning, get used to it.

>This team aint as good as (certain sports team at any point in history)

I love this meme argument

>melo hitting 9 threes
He averages like 2 a game even with the adjusted 3 point line 9 is way above his average

If you get to compare teams throughout history, we get to compare those teams to our own. Our best teams would tear your best teams a new asshole. Argument over.

They're not, mentally weak big men, tons of liability on wings, basically would come down to Kyrie. Their pacing is also pretty off.

Which best teams? You have 1996 game online, it was tied for 3/4 of its length and that was your second best team ever. 1992 team played in a vacuum of Yugoslavia / USSR dissolution. Same with 1994. All the other teams you fielded fought close games until several years ago when Spain got old and no one really stepped up.

No. Aussie is the #2 team. This was the hardest challenge.

Aussies beat Serbia and France already. Spain is garbage now. Argentina is too old. Only team possibly better is Lithuania.

australia is literally ranked 11th in the world. Spain will get a low seed and beat USA first round in quarterfinals. No medals 4 u m8's

>Argument over

I cringed.

The dream team with Shaq - the white boi
Would beat any of those teams all combined

The Aussies could have easily won that game, but bogut couldn't get an offensive rebound.

Do you understand what youre arguing? Team USA would have to be the best team that ever existed every year for you to be wrong, but regardless, it doesnt matter because its a stupid ass argument to say the current team sucks because its not as good as the best team to have ever come out of Serbia 20 years ago.

Try living in the present day. Once again Team USA reigns supreme. Dont try to game the numbers and stats and weave them into an autistic, delusional security blanket to make you feel better about sucking.

>Spain lost to shitty little Croatia
>Then lost to fucking Kyrgyzstan

Please, if Durant wasn't cold as hell, they would've blown them out by 25 or more. Aussies need to stop acting like they played the Americans at full power. If you can't beat a team who had only Melo and Kyrie scoring for pretty much a majority of the 4Q, you shouldn't be that confident.

no doubt this is the worst team we've played in years, but no, we're going to win this easily.

It was a good game though, not like last time we played and Team USA was so bored they started fooling around at the end, with that said however, I never was worried we were ever gonna get KO'd

I miss Harden though :(

>game is close against arguably strongest team in the Olympics
>hur durr you almost won hahahah how bad is that you ALMOST won

>australia is literally ranked 11th in the world

so? You do know those are based on past events.

Spain/france maybe higher ranked but they look like shit so far. Australia has been playing like the second best team in the tournament.

>they would have won if they had done something they needed to do in order to win

congratulations on saying absolutely nothing

mfw yuropoors actually think their best team in history has any chance against america's best team

I miss these guys.

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i cri everytiem

>1992 team played in a vacuum of Yugoslavia / USSR dissolution

Like anyone stood a chance against that lineup.

To be totally frank, this last game was totally disappointing by US standards. If they don't get their act together, they'll be in deep shit at the worst moment.

>implying australia have jumped from 11th in the world to 2nd best in the space of less than a year
Yeah right buddy keep thinking that.

Those rankings are based on other tournaments besides the Olympics, where teams don't have their best players. In basketball even one player can make a huge difference in how good a team is. Also the last major tournament was 2 years ago, and player skill can change a lot in 2 years.

Delly, Mills, Baines, Bairstow are all better than they were at the last tourney (2014 World Cup), which Bogut didn't even play in. Last time, Aussies were a team of young unknowns and old literal-who's. This year they are full of solid NBA players. It's a big difference.

They've already beaten the team with the most NBA talent (France) as well as the team that came runner-up at the last World Cup (Serbia). Their only challengers for #2 are Lithuania and Argentina.

Right now it looks like this:
A: USA > AUS > FRA > SRB > VEN > CHI
B: LIT = ARG > CRO = BRA > ESP > NIG

There really aren't a lot of international events for basketball to make the rankings matter that much. Australia has the only starting 5 besides the US made of up current NBA players, with most of them being contributors on good NBA teams. There have been a good amount of Australian players being drafted recently to show that they've been developing talent too.

France has a better lineup of talent, but the Roos run their offense very well and play tough D.

All I know is this is America's C team right now and today's game was borderline disgraceful. If any one of Lebron, Westgod, CP3, Curry, Kawaii, Griffin, or AD played we would be much better.

If Simmons turns into a superstar and Kyrie decided to play for the Roos it could get very interesting though.

It was Mills dumbass that was chucking up poor looks in the final quarter that did them in.

He's literally our only heat check kind of guy though. He needs to shoot it.

The US team is full of them. Happened to Melo last night.

He was the main reason they were keeping pace offensively. We shot under 40% in the first half, Durcant was horrendous, and Mills and Bogut couldn't miss until they ran out of juice.

We'll still win even when we play shitty hero-chuck ball but the rest of the world will catch up one day. We would be better off sending a whole team like the memes with an additional 4-5 star role players to fill the holes.

no one is even watching basketball,
2nd lowest rated sport

I watched the game.

We didn't play team basketball at all.

I wish that >we lost just so the media can lambast our apes for playing streetball, only for some liberal SJW in the office to get riled up and claim racism..

Holy shit American butthurt is great
Of course you'll get gold but dont act like this team is good. You've looked poor most games with choking faggot like Klay shitting up the court. You face the firsr good team and had to do it all the the 4th quarter. Says it all about their quality dont act like team US shouldn't be held to the highest standard either

Why is Melissa so much better in international play

Melo*

No one in the US is acting like we expect them to dominate teams of mediocre white talent. No one is making excuses for why our thrown together team still won after shooting so poorly,they were trash today. Only roos are butthurt because their team choked yet again. Seems to be a common theme downundie.

this dude probably jacks off to a defensive struggle, NBA ball is the best in the world and theyre clowning intl teams get over it

i pretty much agree with this, I thought this team would perform better. AUS is the second best team it seems though

this team would crush the 92 dream team stop being delusional

yeah they are all very old now it wouldnt even be close

Because in international play he does not need to face those 6'7 - 6'9 athletic small forwards that are his bane in the NBA. Also, he can just concentrate on jumpers without needing to crash the boards.

someone got a link for the highlights ????

Nigga please.

A lot of talk over here has been about this team not being up to the usual standard.

Need LeGod desu

These guys are a bunch of jokers.

>ohyou.jpg

You are so delusional in wanting the USA to seem bad that you're willfully shitting on your own country

Amazing stuff

He has a good team so he actually gets open looks. He's not expected to do anything but score either, which he's always been great at. If only he left New York his chance at a championship would still be salvageable.

>Team USA would have to be the best team that ever existed every year for you to be wrong
That's generally how you judge a team's level

hes right though Australia is not good at basketball, we just accept it. USA should be ashamed of themselves