Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Where to place the blame.
While the rest of the country mourns the ultimately unsuccessful run of Team USA, many have failed to place blame where it belongs. The fact is that this squad of mostly nascient "Dream Team two-ers" and their failed attempt to assert themselves as the pre-eminence of basketball remains a failure for its highly-regarded coach Mike Krzyzewski. Many a ESPN soft-focus piece has been directed towards this tacit jack-ass of a coach and his "direction" of this team of vagabonds, eschewing such thug-types as Iverson and pushing for a supposed return to old-school ideals and heartened patriotism. With a result similar to their last international competition, the supposed ideals that he was supposed to instill were lost when a hot-shooting Greek squad began sinking threes at an alarming rate. It was back to the third spot on the podium for the Americans and suddenly the questions evaporated. Can't blame Kobe, who watched from his Sprite commercial couch, or Gilbert, who the genius coach ousted.
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