Team USA 2024
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Probably a rhetorical question, but over the last 2 years, he has just 26 regular season games with 0 steals and 0 blocks (out of 155 total games).
It's really weird watching regular season Celtics game from this past year and seeing Tatum jumpers be good shots that go in sometimes.
I think the Bam dislike on here is out of control. He's one of the best defenders in basketball and a very good offensive player, even if he isn't a 20 point per game scorer.
I don't really get the Wallace comparison though. Wallace was a comically bad offensive player, to the degree its hard to imagine in him playing in any other era other than the one he played in. He once managed to shoot under 40% for a season despite 85% of his shots coming within ten feet of the basket and is a career 41% free throw shooter, while only averaging more than 2 assists per game once.
Tatum gets destroyed by Jones. He's just not playing well. (Tatum) No other way to put it, really.
Maybe Curry should be the one getting benched. Missing layups missing heat checks and getting torched on D.
I've avoided chiming in on the whole Tatum thing because who knows what's going on from his end. He hasn't played great. Maybe he's enduring NBA title hangover. Maybe the SI cover curse. Maybe he's got an injury. Maybe he (and everyone else) are dicking around in practice and developing some crap habits, like hitters in the home run derby who suddenly look shaky post-ASG. I am optimistic he will be fine.
As for the other side of the Tatum situation, I am trying not to go into some kind of conspiracy theory like sneaker politics or Kerr trying to entice players to GSW or Kerr is secretly a big dumb idiot who lucked into generational players who could coach themselves or anything like that. I want to believe that Kerr had so many minutes to go around, Tatum got the short end of that under whatever logic Kerr used and that was that.
Now all of that said, between the usage of Tatum/Ant/Booker/Embiid, Kerr has made a lot of weird choices. And as much as I am trying to avoid conspiracy theories, I am wondering if one of the reason Coach K was so effective was that he didn't need this bullshit being a collegiate coach. It was all Xs and Os with some ego management. He didn't have to answer to Nike. He didn't have to answer to his own team and give the appearance of playing politics to give perks to certain pending FAs. He came from a system that had a number of one-and-dones and could figure out how to get the most out of people in a short time when they had other agendas. Not saying bring back Coach K, but maybe the college coaching pool is worth a look next time around.
As for the other side of the Tatum situation, I am trying not to go into some kind of conspiracy theory like sneaker politics or Kerr trying to entice players to GSW or Kerr is secretly a big dumb idiot who lucked into generational players who could coach themselves or anything like that. I want to believe that Kerr had so many minutes to go around, Tatum got the short end of that under whatever logic Kerr used and that was that.
Now all of that said, between the usage of Tatum/Ant/Booker/Embiid, Kerr has made a lot of weird choices. And as much as I am trying to avoid conspiracy theories, I am wondering if one of the reason Coach K was so effective was that he didn't need this bullshit being a collegiate coach. It was all Xs and Os with some ego management. He didn't have to answer to Nike. He didn't have to answer to his own team and give the appearance of playing politics to give perks to certain pending FAs. He came from a system that had a number of one-and-dones and could figure out how to get the most out of people in a short time when they had other agendas. Not saying bring back Coach K, but maybe the college coaching pool is worth a look next time around.
32 steals in 40 mins is wild.
View: https://twitter.com/TomerAzarly/status/1818743759729050118
Team USA has 10 steals today and I was just curious how far away they were from the American Olympic record. The USA record is THIRTY-TWO (32!) against Croatia by the 1992 Dream Team. 5 players had at least 4 steals led by Michael Jordan's 8.
View: https://twitter.com/TomerAzarly/status/1818743759729050118
Team USA has 10 steals today and I was just curious how far away they were from the American Olympic record. The USA record is THIRTY-TWO (32!) against Croatia by the 1992 Dream Team. 5 players had at least 4 steals led by Michael Jordan's 8.
It's kind of amazing how dominant Boston was in the playoffs without KP + the JAYs both struggling from 3...
CJM did a heckuva job
I know it's irrational of me (or is it?) but this performance by Tatum, plus his bad shooting in the finals has me just a tick worried about him for this coming season.
He's been quietly pretty bad all summer. He's not hitting his shots and SSD is picking on him. He's worth the wait because he will find his shot and his mere presence opens things up for the offense, but not exactly a stellar olympic debut.
Royal Ivey putting himself in position for some Head Coaching interviews next summer. He has this group playing their asses off every game for 40 minutes.
it's nothing to worry about
Tatum just needs a break from basketball & then work on his 3pt mechanics in September
He mostly needs to balance out his C&S & PU3s, which shouldn't be too difficult playing next to 4 All-Star level players.
Derrick White is the most patriotic USA hoops player. The others are just kind of mid as patriots.
Do some searching if you care to do so but he’s one is the amazing ones out there.