Frank Longo Member since Nov 18th 2003 86672 posts
Sat Aug-24-19 09:24 AM
"USA has 11 assists as a team, falls to Australia."
Awful iso ball, nonstop. Patty Mills torched Kemba. Just an entire team of guys who think they're better than they actually are. (Yes, including, right today, my guy Tatum. Who also was terrible.)
It's like an entire generation of players are watching Steph and Kyrie and Harden and how great they are in iso and all think, "Yes, I can also do that at that level." Yet, in addition to their HOF-level iso skills, all three of those guys also have career assist rates of over 30%, something *no one* on this Team USA has. If you're worse in iso than those three guys and a worse passer/playmaker than those three guys, stop trying to play offense like those three guys. Or at least play better defense than those three guys to try to make up the difference. But no one on this team was doing that either.
Anyway. We knew a loss would probably happen, but still so insanely inexcusable that Andrew Bogut had 4 assists for Australia... and would've led Team USA in assists. Pass the goddamn ball.
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