Hoops

Olympics - is the final four realistic?

Canada and France ? exactly there one man teams. wed have bogut and irving two first picks are you kidding...

and add mills and Anderson to that list nba players. ingles barlow newley.

safe to say wed be alot better than France and Canada

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paul, what about Shane Heal..

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i think it would be more of a challenge to take Australia to a final four then to take America to gold. your right it would be a hell of a challenge and your also right in that not many players can do it. but nowitzki and durant aren't point guards. no matter how good they are they're not running the show like kyrie would be for us. heck some would say durant isnt even running the show at okc ... he'd also have a very good surrounding cast. heck look at spain jose calderon had a good front court and now they're playing at an elite international level. we have bogut and other pieces put with kyrie we should be aiming for that medal.

Jacob, it would be SOME challenge to carry our team. If we got him, the news media would start talking about us playing in the final, and anything less than that would be made to be a disgrace.
I can remember the way our ability was over-hyped before the last soccer World Cup, and the hatchets that came out after we lost the first game to a very good German team.
They're almost as feral as the English media.

i don't think kyrie will get lost in the middle at all. dot forget who the coach of team usa is. and leading up to the draft coach k was explaining how he changed his whole duke offence to suit this kid. he plays like a veteran and judging by his shooting numbers this year he could even play off the ball at international level.

he's in his first year and he's already better than wall i would say. he plausible like a vet and he finishes unlike the last bloke we had playing for the cavs .

he has plenty of comparisons to Chris Paul especially before going to college. so i think in 2/3 years i think he will be in that top 3 area. especially as the cavs get better with him.
so i don't think hell got lost. i just honestly believe he wants to play for aus . he said it so himself i swear. he probably just wants the challenge.

I reckon he'll hang onto the dream of playing for the US, but will never actually get to the Olympics because of all the good PGs ahead of him.
By the time the batch of outstanding PGs ahead of him become too old, the selectors will be looking at the guys coming up behind him. He'll get lost in the middle.
His only hope is to become better than Wall, Westbrook, Rondo, Williams & co, which I can't see.

does anyone actually know where they are at with Irving. are basketball Australia pursuing him.

because i swear he has stated before on his twiter about the boomers...

Our team does not impress me at all, and so I would be stoked with a top 8 finish. (Assuming Kyrie tells us to GGF and Bogut is below his best, which I think are both fair assumptions)

Looking at those which have already qualified, I reckon we could get into the top 8.
http://london2012.fiba.com/pages/eng/fe/12/olym/who_is_in/p/men.html

Power-houses: USA, Spain, Argentina
Middle: Brazil, France
Weaker: Great Britain, Tunisia, China
Likely qualifiers: Lithuania, Greece, Russia, Puerto Rico

To finish in the top 8 would be a great result right now I would say...top 4 would be sensational but probably unrealistic.

Irving if you can get him is more than capable of knocking down the 3 ball, didn't see him miss in the Rookie Allstar game the other day

Is anyone really that confident of Irving even playing for us?

I think that Team USA would be putting a lot of pressure on him not to play for anyone else.

I think they would happy with 5 to 8.
I believe we are a pure shooter away from a probable chance of 5-8 IMO.

I have got this link working for Game 2
http://www.andromedanet.com/tvtuner_sop_vip+hd.html