2020, uh, 21, uh, who knows Tokyo Olympics thread

That would be "j'accuse".

 

Good work, racist Columbos.

 

Awww sheeeeeeit. I’ll get my pearls…

 

Did I miss Fox tsk-tsking about Tom Brady’s drunken Lombardi Trophy throw?

 

August is the traditional month for French vacations. That's how my daughter was able to spend most of July and first week of August here in the States. She will cover for the co-workers who're now on the beach somewhere, either the Riviera or the Atlantic coast for the next month. Mountain fans in Bordeaux head for the Pyrenees.

 

Every member of the Washington Capitals is wondering what the big deal is.

 

They weren't driving. I don't give a fuck if they were drunk enough to be carried in feet first.

But of course the KKK audience of Faux Fascist Noise does .

 

Just finished up watching the closing montage. The editing was good but Trevor Rabin's Revenge of the Titans theme is just so perfect for that thing. Really captures the thrills, the heartbreak and ultimate joy of competition.

 

Gregg Popovich had message for critics after Team USA gold: 'How the f*** you like us now?'

 

Vigorous jacking-off gesture. You never should have had a game closer than 30.

I'm sure your mentor Larry Brown was beaming after the five point win in the final game. Although the score was about 40 points higher than he prefers.

 

Oh, cone on Star. The league MVP was on another team. Every team had at least one NBA player and most more than one. It ain't 1992 anymore. The 2008-2012-2016 golds were anything but walkovers. The world is infinitely more competitive in basketball and the world is better for it. So the US had to take some punches to win. Isn't that better drama?

 

France had one player who would have been in the top 6-8 players for the US, two more who would have played maybe 10 minutes a game, and nine guys who would have been holding water bottles.

The US insists on self indoctrinating itself on "Hoosiers" and obsessing over developing a finely tuned, fundamentally impeccable, precision-developed team for the ages.

Well guess what, there's not enough time to do that. It was especially bad this year because of the COVID schedule insanity, but even in totally conventional years we'll have players walking off of NBA playoff rosters to join the Olympic team.

There is not enough time to put together a US Olympic basketball team with enough practice and preparation time to develop high level pattern offense and defense. If you're lucky and the NBA playoffs end in early June, you might get your entire roster together for two weeks before the games.

Whether the coaching staff likes it or not, to a huge extent an Olympic basketball team is like an all star team: you should just roll out the balls and say "run like hell."

No US Olympic team has ever done that, of course. The primary objective of every US basketball team in the Olympics is to keep from hurting opponents' feelings. And win if possible too, but fairly frequently it's not.