Comments on: Time for USA Basketball Team to go Under 21

By: performancepartsj

performancepartsj — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 16:42:46 +0000

I think the one thing we would see is a much more exciting game. I think would see a lot of kids try to make a name for themselves. Also there is no real ego’s. I would love to see this.

I’d love to see Hockey play with the young guys as well. Love the NHL, but I think there is a special element to watching the young guys play the olympics.

By: David

David — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 06:36:50 +0000

We should also go under 21 because using the pros is boring. Basketball is a team sport. Putting a bunch of players together does not necessarily make a great team. This can be pretty simple, you win the college national championship, you’re the Olympic team. Best team goes, easy.

By: tzugidan

tzugidan — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:04:22 +0000

If you want to determine which country has the best athletes then you get the best… If you do otherwise, it’s just entertainment as far as I’m concerned. If the players don’t want to represent their country, they can say no. These professional athletes make enough money to take a few weeks out of the season every two years to represent, or they can say no. I don’t care.

I’m so tired of all of the BS in professional athletics that I couldn’t care less about the olypics/professional sports/ and I’m quickly growing tired of college football with this arbitrary BCS system, that is set to generate cash…

I’d rather attend my daughters high school soccer, or for that matter any high school event, where athletes and the institutions they represent are still playing for some valid reasons other than A) to generate cash, or B) the hopes to generate some in the future.

By: Ken Carpenter

Ken Carpenter — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:36:23 +0000

The U.S. Olympic basketball squad should be a team of talented professionals not under NBA contracts — the Harlem Globetrotters! In non-Olympic years, the Trotters do their silly antics; leading into the Olympics, they play a serious schedule against college teams, NBA teams, and foreign club and national squads. Then they go to the Olympics and kick ass!

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By: thebigpraetor

thebigpraetor — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 02:59:38 +0000

Good post. Your an owner and your puzzled by the NBA loaning players to the Olympic Team? That is major disconnect. Just watched an old rerun special on Nirvana ~ it seems when people want to work together they accomplish something and when they don’t nothing happens. Metaphysics and Serendipity are alive and well.

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By: loucons

loucons — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 19:38:20 +0000

Whether amateur or pro sports is selected is another argument altogether.

I’ve always felt that every country sends the best of their best to represent them and may the best win. That’s the spirit of the Olympics I think. So if they’re going to include basketball, baseball, etc. in the Olympics, we should send our best. There’s something to be said for removing “professional” sports from the Olympics. It won’t draw as many viewers if they take out basketball and replace it with fencing, for example. But there are tons of athletes in lesser known sports that deserve a spot on the world stage.

By: dallasloanguy

dallasloanguy — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:32:18 +0000

I thought the Olympics were supposed to be amateurs….

By: agman65

agman65 — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:57:11 +0000

The real problem here is the “win at any cost” attitude of most of us Americans, and I’m sure, other folks around the world. The Dream team was our response to other countries paying their athletes to practice year round yet still not calling them “professionals”. Once the amateur status of Olympic participants went out the window so did the idea of real competition. The mantra became “we must send our best”. I stopped watching Olympic basketball years ago. It’s like an All Star game with a few really good players (mostly from the NBA) and a bunch of pretenders. Is it really important if Spain (Ginobili) beats Germany (Dirk)?
The same is true for hockey and about to be true for golf. DO we need another world stage for golf?
The Olympics are a nice show every two years but making it a do or die proposition that determines our pecking order in the world seems a bit of overkill.