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LogGrad98 said:
Yep, and all it took to beat Jokic was the entire east and west all stars from the NBA on one team! I mean, that's all it took! Crazy, right? I mean I guess Jokic must be surrounded by the absolute best basketball players in the entire world in this olympics. Jokic even went 0-6 from 3 and the USA still barely pulled out the win on absolute heroics. Crazy how fast the rest of the world has caught up to us.
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The increased parity is great for basketball.
 
There's always been plenty of talent in Europe as well, but nowadays via internet, all the kids see NBA and what it takes to be there. I would guess it has an effect as much as coaching, scouting, and growing number of encouraging examples of success.
 
Step-Back Lauri said:
There's always been plenty of talent in Europe as well, but nowadays via internet, all the kids see NBA and what it takes to be there. I would guess it has an effect as much as coaching, scouting, and growing number of encouraging examples of success.
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Big thing has also been a cultural shift in the US, until Dirk and a few others the attitude in America was that only Americans can play NBA basketball.
 
fishonjazz said:
I bet there are a lot of LeBron haters, who also think of themselves as patriots, who are sad that USA won.

They were so excited to start hating on LeBron and "today's NBA players"

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Yeah during the game when US was down #LeBronze was trending in Twitter and I think it was mostly used by Americans.
 
HermanG said:
Yeah during the game when US was down #LeBronze was trending in Twitter and I think it was mostly used by Americans.
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That is kind of funny though. Haters (and I’ve been one in the past) should just shut up already. His play in the 4th quarter was legendary at any age. . . much less pushing 40.
 
fishonjazz said:
Dude at my work who said he was varsity track and field in high school was talking about how good he was.
Said he held his high school record on the 100 meters. I asked if he remembers his time and he said it was 9.88 seconds.

I looked up the world record of all time. Bolt ran it in 9.58. Tyson gay ran it in 9.69.

There is no way this white dude from Utah ran it in 9.88 like 35 years ago right?

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First white guy to run under 10 seconds in an official race was Christophe Lemaitre in 2010 and first human ever to run under 10 seconds at sea level was Carl Lewis in 1983. First race ever with 2 guys running under 10 in the same race was in 1991.

So yeah either he is bullshitting or it was stopwatched (and misclocked) or something.

Thats only legal results ofc. Some massive wind result could have easily been sub 10.
 
Coach Ellis said:
That is kind of funny though. Haters (and I’ve been one in the past) should just shut up already. His play in the 4th quarter was legendary at any age. . . much less pushing 40.
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I did find the hashtag hilarious especially since they play in France, but the hate is weird.

I'm a Jordan GOAT guy but i'm not gonna fight anyone over it. Its obviously not an exact science.
 
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