US Olympic Team Announced

[Mo Z. Dizzle]

Roster:

Kobe Bryant
LeBron James
Carmelo Anthony
Dwyane Wade
Jason Kidd
Tayshaun Prince
Carlos Boozer
Chris Bosh
Dwight Howard
Chris Paul
Deron Williams
Michael Redd


I'm glad to see Bosh made the team.

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

Good list...Not enough bigs, though.


PG Chris Paul...Deron Williams/Jason Kidd
SG Kobe Bryant...Dwyane Wade/Michael Redd
SF LeBron James...Carmelo Anthony/Tayshaun Prince
PF Chris Bosh...Carlos Boozer
C Dwight Howard


I'd cut one guard and add another player to the front court.

[Mo Z. Dizzle]

I was thinking that as well

unless they play one of the SFs out of position at PF and use either Bosh or Boozer as a backup C

[Antonio_]

Why just 3 bigs?

[wcsoldier]

USA will never learn ... LOL at cutting Mike Miller to add Wade 

[7even]

USA will never learn ...

Yeah, should be good enough for Gold though

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

^No shit...Kobe is playing this year.

[smegma]

You know the Olympics has more sports than just basketball, right?

[Turf Hitta]

Yeah seriously only one center? And Michael Redd?? I'm disappointed in Nate McMillan (I know its Coach K's show but I think McMillan cut Arenas last time so he must have some type of input) if he had something to do with roster selections and didn't do anything to get a backup C on the roster.

[Tay]

What changes would you guys have actually made though? Who would you add to the roster, and who would you remove? 3 PG's seems kind of excessive, but what big man would you go with, considering Amare already declined?

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

It's hard to decide who gets dropped between Kidd, Williams, and Paul...They shoulda dropped one for a big, though.

[Turf Hitta]

Nothing wrong with 3 pgs. Much in the same way a football team needs 3 qbs, a basketball team should ideally have 3 pgs. Drop Michael Redd and add a center. Stoudemire could play backup C. Shit even Chris Kaman or expired Shaq, hell, even Eddy Curry, just SOMEBODY else who can man the 5 for limited minutes while Howard rests.

[7even]

Drop Michael Redd Prince and add a center.

[Now_Im_Not_Banned]

I understand why Redd and Prince are on the roster...Redd, cuz we need a pure shooter other than Kobe, and Prince, because we need a perimeter defender other than Kobe.

[Turf Hitta]

^^^I thought about that too, but of Prince and Redd, redd just seems like he doesn't need to be there. Kobe can play the entire game if you need him to and D Wade is much more than a servicable reserve for Kobe. If they both absolutely must be there though, why not replace Boozer with Amare? he could backup both PF and C.