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**Official** Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics
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dontcloseyoureyes
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Teams come back from 15 point defecits in basketball all the time. It's a make or miss game, you go on runs. The US team didn't make a 3-pointer until the end of the second quarter. Their shots started going in and they kicked it up a gear defensively. They started pressuring the ball up the court and switching aggressively at the point of attack. once the US started making their open shots and started pressing their insane athletic advantage on defence they took us out of the game.
In basketball you're only ever going to go as far as your best player. There hasn't been an NBA champion without (at least) one of the best 5 players in the NBA on it sinxe Detroit in 2004, and that was a massive aberration caused by a Lakers implosion. Our best player, Patty Mills, has never been in the top 50 players in the world. I cannot stress how big the talent gap is here. Every single one of those players that played minutes for the US today would, without question, be the best player Australia has ever produced by so far it's ridiculous.
In basketball you're only ever going to go as far as your best player. There hasn't been an NBA champion without (at least) one of the best 5 players in the NBA on it sinxe Detroit in 2004, and that was a massive aberration caused by a Lakers implosion. Our best player, Patty Mills, has never been in the top 50 players in the world. I cannot stress how big the talent gap is here. Every single one of those players that played minutes for the US today would, without question, be the best player Australia has ever produced by so far it's ridiculous.
dontcloseyoureyes
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As long as Spain don't win I'm fine with it.
OverratedSanity
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Even with his playoff woes, if Simmons had played and done so like the Simmons from a couple of years ago, I'd have given Australia a chance because he'd atleast reduce the talent gap a bit (even then it'd have taken a miracle). Without him, its impressive they did as well as they did imo.
stephen
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The crap Chinese diver is Sachin tier. The good one is Smith tier. Ridiculous.
dontcloseyoureyes
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Don't mean to bog the thread down with technical discussion but you'd likely run into the same issues Philly do - you can't play Simmons and Thybulle together and score at a good enough rate to win important games.
Daemon
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Keep that in mind, I designed this rhyme
Burgey
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I don't think you lead by 15 if you're playing badly though.
dontcloseyoureyes
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I explained in due time.
Shady Slim
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generally this is true but the US's thing in both the aus game and the spain game was sort of to goober around for 25 minutes and then just
Burgey
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I get that, but if you're up at half time you've given yourself a shot, even accepting the overwhelming likelihood is you're gonna get toweled overall. Perhaps I'm just naive in not accepting it's all down to the other outfit when you can't string two passes together from the get go and shoot at about 15% in the first quarter of a match. That is, apparently, an acceptable standard of performance by a side in an Olympic knock out match.
Victor Ian
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Bummer. It's bad enough I have to accept bmx as an Olympic sport. But skateboarding too!
stephen
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It has become a new favourite to watch, very quickly.
The bmx is so much better to watch than the skateboarding. It's life on the line stuff.
stephen
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They're young and invincible at that age. I feel so old.
Victor Ian
International Coach
There is a regular group of skateboarders in front of the state library. The amount of falls I watch each day is mind boggling, so imagining the amount of falls these Olympians would have sustained to get there is... more mind boggling.
Also it just dawned on me that a group of bmxers is probably called a stack.