The Dream Team

[sonickteam2]

We can all take a collective laugh at the millionaire American spoiled brat dream team, here!!!
 
   losers, but rich and i suppose thats all they care about, apparently.

[SalParadise]

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
  We can all take a collective laugh at the millionaire American spoiled brat dream team, here!!!
 
   losers, but rich and i suppose thats all they care about, apparently.

why? judging by what i saw, they were taking these games seriously. they just got outplayed.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by SalParadise:
  why? judging by what i saw, they were taking these games seriously. they just got outplayed.

really?  didnt the whole thing start out with guys missing practice or a meeting or something?
 
   and i dont call 60whatever% from the FT line taking things seriously.  or being outplayed.
 
   and the 30%(if that) from the 3-pt line, which was closer that normal, was probably not all contested shots.
 
   i will give the guys credit, they at least took it seriously enough to GO.  which is more than you can say for the rest of that sad bunch of millionaires we call the NBA.

[Guiny]

Yeah I give them credit for at least going. Like you said, they are rich so they didnt need to waste their summer. I don't think going in they were gonna be known for their free throw shooting. I mean Tim Duncan alone is close to 55% lifetime and I'm sure he was fouled alot. Anyways, there will never be a Dream Team like the first, the name should have ended there.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by Rob_Gee:
  Yeah I give them credit for at least going. Like you said, they are rich so they didnt need to waste their summer.

can someone, anyone, please give me the name of another athlete who just decided they didnt feel like being in the Olympics and playing for thier country.  besides an American.  just one
 
  and drug scandals dont count
 
 
   so you are rich.  so no need to waste time representing your country?  is that really how it goes?

[SalParadise]

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
   

Originally posted by SalParadise:
  why? judging by what i saw, they were taking these games seriously. they just got outplayed.

really?  didnt the whole thing start out with guys missing practice or a meeting or something?
 
   and i dont call 60whatever% from the FT line taking things seriously.  or being outplayed.
 
   and the 30%(if that) from the 3-pt line, which was closer that normal, was probably not all contested shots.
 
   i will give the guys credit, they at least took it seriously enough to GO.  which is more than you can say for the rest of that sad bunch of millionaires we call the NBA. [/b]

i'm not talking about how it started. i'm going on what i saw from the games.
 
 so they had shitty free-throw and 3-point shooters. i don't know how that's related to them not taking it seriously.
 
 i don't understand the animosity towards NBA players. you don't think they worked hard to get there?

[ggw]

We have no idea.  We're Doodles.  We pay no attention to the activities of athletes from other countries.
 
   

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
 can someone, anyone, please give me the name of another athlete who just decided they didnt feel like being in the Olympics and playing for thier country.  besides an American.  just one
 

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by SalParadise:
 you don't think they worked hard to get there?

not hard enough.   do you really think Puerto Rico, Lithuania, AND Argentina all outplayed them?
 
   all 3 of them?
 
 
   whatever, weren't you getting sick of winning every damn year anyway?

[thirsty moore]

I don't pay attention to basketball.  The original Dream Team dominated, but I thought the Lithuanian Deadheads were far more interesting.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by econo:
  I don't pay attention to basketball.  The original Dream Team dominated, but I thought the Lithuanian Deadheads were far more interesting.

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 more than Charles Barkley? he's always a hoot, eh?

[godsshoeshine]

i was hoping for yet another olympic thread today! yay!

[SalParadise]

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
   

Originally posted by SalParadise:
 you don't think they worked hard to get there?

not hard enough.   do you really think Puerto Rico, Lithuania, AND Argentina all outplayed them?
 
   all 3 of them?
 
 
   whatever, weren't you getting sick of winning every damn year anyway? [/b]

yeah. what's so hard to believe about that? this US team didn't have one good pure shooter on the lineup. international rules practically forces teams to live/die by the 3-pt shot.
 
 i couldn't care less if they never won another international game. i just felt the need to defend a bunch of millionaires i don't know. sorry.

[sonickteam2]

Originally posted by SalParadise:
 i just felt the need to defend a bunch of millionaires i don't know. sorry.

i am sure they are thanking you as we speak  

[vansmack]

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
  can someone, anyone, please give me the name of another athlete who just decided they didnt feel like being in the Olympics and playing for thier country.  besides an American.  just one

Sue Holloway, Canada, and there are 210 other Canadians that I know of.  I can think of hundreds of others from Japan, China and West Germany too.

[mankie]

Hey, the Canucks invented the game so you can't really expect too much from the doodles, even though they claim the sport as their own....in which case it sucks to be third (at best) in one of your national pastimes and not even qualify in your other.
 
 Tee hee, tee hee, ha ha ha hahahahahaha.
 
 At least your girls do well in their sports, even without the help of drugs or judges.