I was gonna give a scorching hot take at the start of the tourney how the US would be a lottery team. That was probably too much. They still got a lot of talent.
To be honest I don't even know what the argument was and I wasn't trying to be a smartass but saying Serbia has multiple NBA players on their roster is factually wrong.
Lets be real, has Coach K ever really done anythig significant with Team USA? It's always the individual talent that carries him and when the talent isn't quite good enough to completely destroy the opposition, you can see how there's no real team defense or offense that's implemented.
No one...
I love the FIBA's extended ruling of the unsportsmanlike foul. Wrapping up someone when they're starting a fastbreak with no chance at the ball should be punished.
It's the equivalent of a flagrant 1, which is excessive since you'd be ejected after two, but I'm all for adding unsportsmanlike...