It's official! Davis on Olympic team after Griffin withdraws

[J.Jennings]

You know I actually meant to put almost

I refuse to get into a pissing contest on this thread but i will say this like i have mentioned a time or two in this thread in general.

Tyson Chandler,,, he sucks and he should have never been given Dwight Howards spot,,,, Aldridge or a few others could have served team USA better in my opinion....

Blake Griffin,, Human highlight film but very and i mean very one dimensional in terms of basketball skill.....

Kevin Love,,,, Good player that i like but then again, it is and has always been about the "greenlight" in the NBA. If you are a above average player and play on a awful team with a offense centered around you, YOU WILL average very substantial PPG, just ask Chris Bosh and many others over the years(Mitch Richmond,etc,etc,) who have had the benefit of being the man on a small market team without the benefit of being surrounded with a few other above average players.............

Still, i think Anthony Davis and his defensive abilities warrants him some more minutes per Team Usa

[westtncat]

HA! I havent even posted about the subject in the whole thread. I was too entertained by other things. If you ask me I wish he would start but I cant make a case because we are winning by such big margins.

[J.Jennings]

HA! I havent even posted about the subject in the whole thread. I was too entertained by other things. If you ask me I wish he would start but I cant make a case because we are winning by such big margins.

Anthony Davis doesn't get the respect simply because he's fresh out of college and a rookie. However, i suppose a argument could be made that perhaps Anthony may be better suited and more mentally prepared to embrace the "team" concept for Team Usa in comparison to the veterans whom are used to being the focal points of there respected teams. Is it fair to say that Anthony may be willing to do whatever it takes and more suited to play a "role" for USA while others guys on the team need the ball more in there hands in order get into the rhythm of the game??? Lebron used to having the ball, same with Kobe, same with Love, Williams,Iguodala,Paul,Westbrook,Durant,etc,etc. Let's be honest, at Kentucky, Davis was really never the focal point of the offense but simply the pioneer on the defensive end. Call me a homer, but with USA's lack of size in the paint, maybe Anthony Davis is the first choice to play the running hybrid center in Team Usa's up and down style of fast paced fastbreak basketball????????????????????

[BenH]

Today is exactly why what I've been saying is absolutely right. Coach K was getting smoked and didn't have a good answer. He knew he couldn't count on Chandler so Chandler hit the bench, but then A.D. didn't come in because K has no idea how A.D. can or can't perform in a game like that, because he's consistently refused to find out. He had to go with a weird offense-heavy, no center lineup because he had no idea what the parts of his team are. Result, Lithuania got to pour in layups all day long and almost hung an L on us. Maybe you guys would rather preserve your forum ego than win games, so I don't expect absolute real life proof of my arguments to change your minds, but I'd rather not watch Kevin Durant or someone trying to play C and failboat us into a bronze. Not good basketball.

[westtncat]

I want Davis to start but thats purely because Im a wildcat fan. Its hard for me to make a case for anyone player based on results because we have had such lop sided victories. So basically If Im the coach knowing the Olympics come around every 4 years I would probably play the older guys out of respect and the age factor that they might be too old next time around. As I said this is only due to the fact we are winning and winning big so complaining about margin of victory seems petty.

[BenH]

I agree in general that the older guys who may not do this again should get to relish the experience. And in general I even agree they should be getting the starts and everything, just from a strategy viewpoint they're the experienced guys and are, in most situations, your best chance at building up a lead. I still think you gotta know what your pieces are though, because there are teams that will make us work harder than others. I don't see this as picking over the margin of victory, Lithuania led us in the 4th quarter. I don't think that's the time to pick your lineup based on sentimental reasons like Kobe's career ending or whatever. If I'm coaching I wanna know who can stop those guys from scoring at will on us, and that's who's going in.

[westtncat]

If the game is in doubt then I would question the coach. I think Davis got a good bit of playing time in the last game so I think we can all be pretty happy with that. If we win by 2 or lose and Davis doesnt play then I will start pointing fingers.

[jack franklin]

If the game is in doubt then I would question the coach. I think Davis got a good bit of playing time in the last game so I think we can all be pretty happy with that. If we win by 2 or lose and Davis doesnt play then I will start pointing fingers.

Strong team, plays crappy, still wins.

[BenH]

Strong team, plays crappy, still wins.

That's really your subbing philosophy? "Hmm it's the 4th quarter and I'm losing to 1-win Lithuania, I think I'll go ahead and stay the course because strong team plays crappy still wins, even though if we win this would be the first time we played crappy and still won."

[jack franklin]

That's really your subbing philosophy? "Hmm it's the 4th quarter and I'm losing to 1-win Lithuania, I think I'll go ahead and stay the course because strong team plays crappy still wins, even though if we win this would be the first time we played crappy and still won."

I hadn't thought of it that way but Ben, you are right, that is A GREAT PHILOSOPHY you and K believe in, after all it worked and USA won. Excellent!

[BenH]

End of the day, Jack, K knew your boy Chandler was a bust, and sat him down. Because he refused to play Davis he didn't know how badly he would have disrupted Lithuania's offense. Particularly in an international game where you can go up and just grab balls right off the rim. He chose instead to just pour on the offense and hope for the best, and it almost put Russia in first. We should have never trailed so late in the game. Your strategy put us in that position.

[jack franklin]

He chose instead to just pour on the offense and hope for the best, and it almost put Russia in first. We should have never trailed so late in the game.

I know you love K and all he stands for, you have made that clear on all these threads and now you think Russia will cream the USA and take the gold? Being a K lover is bad enough but this deal about rooting for Russia against the USA basketball team is bizzarre. Do you think K is being paid by Russia? Are YOU paying K to help Russia beat us? Do you call yourself a patriot? You are nothing but a defacto red, DuKe lover with the emphasis on the K, and a traitor to all things Kentucky basketball. I hope you and coach K and Russia all get sent to basketball jail and don't get out until Tubby wins another national championship. You should be ashamed BenH, ashamed, ashamed, ashamed.

[BenH]

I know most of that is trolling, especially since you're the one who thinks K would have creamed us on his way to a Final Four this year if only he could have overcome mighty Lehigh, but since you clearly don't watch basketball I'm gonna go ahead and tell you Russia is the only other undefeated team left. If Lithuania had held on for a couple minutes Russia would have been in the lead. You really ought to look at least a little stuff up before you go popping off at the mouth dude, I'm starting to feel really embarrassed for you.

[Downes Van Zandt]

I know most of that is trolling, especially since you're the one who thinks K would have creamed us on his way to a Final Four this year if only he could have overcome mighty Lehigh, but since you clearly don't watch basketball I'm gonna go ahead and tell you Russia is the only other undefeated team left. If Lithuania had held on for a couple minutes Russia would have been in the lead. You really ought to look at least a little stuff up before you go popping off at the mouth dude, I'm starting to feel really embarrassed for you.

Jesus Christ, Ben, will you please get over yourself? Contrary to what you may believe, you aren't the only knowledgeable person around here. People try to argue basketball fact with you, but you twist almost everything around into an imaginary scrap that leaves the rest of us shaking our heads and looking for other people to talk to. Then when people get sick of dealing with your crap and wander off elsewhere, you claim to be the only one willing to talk basketball. For as little time as you've been on the board, your schtick has gotten old, fast.

[jack franklin]

I know most of that is trolling, especially since you're the one who thinks K would have creamed us on his way to a Final Four this year if only he could have overcome mighty Lehigh, but since you clearly don't watch basketball .

Uh, look it up duuuuuuude, Duke would have had to make it to the final four to meet us in that tournament, but I realize you don't know much about basketball and probably don't realize that, so I don't hold it against you, and don't expect you to understand my original post where I specified that coach K would have loved to have gotten to play AD this season, especially in the tourney, (as that would have meant they made it to the final four). I still don't understand why you would root for Russia against the USA though, and why you think coach K is so much better a coach than our own. That doesn't make sense at all. We are UK fans here, not Duke fans and certainly not Russia fans.

There are a lot of fans here that will jump on you pretty quick when you keep dissing coach Cal and kissing up to coach K. That stuff doesn't fly around here. When you make a list of elite coaches, you cannot leave Cal off that list. I'm thinkin you are a closet Louisville poster for sure. Whatever you are here for, you are the drek in the bottom of the basketball cup.

[jack franklin]

Jesus Christ, Ben, will you please get over yourself? Contrary to what you may believe, you aren't the only knowledgeable person around here. People try to argue basketball fact with you, but you twist almost everything around into an imaginary scrap that leaves the rest of us shaking our heads and looking for other people to talk to. Then when people get sick of dealing with your crap and wander off elsewhere, you claim to be the only one willing to talk basketball. For as little time as you've been on the board, your schtick has gotten old, fast.

I agree completely. His duke love is sickening, and I don't know why he would root for Russia over the USA. And I have had to develop a new style of posting that I call Benachian(rhymes with Appalachian except it has a nasty old ben instead of an appal in the front of it).

[BenH]

Jesus Christ, Ben, will you please get over yourself? Contrary to what you may believe, you aren't the only knowledgeable person around here. People try to argue basketball fact with you, but you twist almost everything around into an imaginary scrap that leaves the rest of us shaking our heads and looking for other people to talk to. Then when people get sick of dealing with your crap and wander off elsewhere, you claim to be the only one willing to talk basketball. For as little time as you've been on the board, your schtick has gotten old, fast.

Haha, you really think Jack's garbage about me being a K lover was a legitimate post? How did I go from you clowns calling me a drunk homer to you guys thinking it's totally legit to call me a Dukie? No, I'm sorry, he was clearly trolling and his post had zero to do with basketball. I don't know what facts you think I'm twisting - Lithuania had the lead in the 4th and Russia is the only other undefeated team. T or F?

Uh, look it up duuuuuuude, Duke would have had to make it to the final four to meet us in that tournament, but I realize you don't know much about basketball and probably don't realize that, so I don't hold it against you, and don't expect you to understand my original post where I specified that coach K would have loved to have gotten to play AD this season, especially in the tourney, (as that would have meant they made it to the final four).

Oh my God, that is the most hilariously anyone has ever lectured me on the internet. Duke was our 2 seed and couldn't have met us anywhere except the Elite 8. When you said Duke would love to meet A.D. because he'd go straight to the Final Four, I assumed you knew what you were talking about and were saying Duke would have beaten us in our Elite 8 meeting. Sorry I gave you the benefit of the doubt and assumed you had the remotest clue what you were talking about, it won't happen again.

"look it up duuuuuude" oh sweet Christ on a cracker you are killing me!

[Downes Van Zandt]

Haha, you really think Jack's garbage about me being a K lover was a legitimate post? How did I go from you clowns calling me a drunk homer to you guys thinking it's totally legit to call me a Dukie? No, I'm sorry, he was clearly trolling and his post had zero to do with basketball.

You missed the point. Again.

[BenH]

You missed the point. Again.

Dude, list a fact I supposedly twisted or don't talk to me. I don't care to hear you whine about how little you like me. Did Lithuania have the lead in the 4th? Is Russia the only other undefeated team? Yes and yes. What the hell are you crying about? Me. Not anything I said, not any facts, not any points or arguments anyone has made, just me. I don't care what you think about me, not even a little bit. Grow up.

[cumberlandredskin]

This horse has been beat to death too. This thread is closed.