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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Yankees have it through the Series then, absent dropping 3.

I was away at a youth b-ball tournament and disconnected from the news.

I know no entire NBA team will ever agree to be the Olympic team, or this National team, but really someone needs to get past throwing 12 scoring stars together.

In the Olympics we lost because no one would guard the 3 point line. Some team broke the Olympic record for 3s against the USA- at a time when the Pistons and Spurs were the two best NBA teams and either team would have shut down any of these national teams.

Whoever coaches next time need to bring some defensive role players.

This should probably be on Politics, but here we go.

• David (Philadelphia): When are you going to write a column about the US hoops team? Even an offhanded "I told you so" would be nice (Mens not Womens, just to be clear, since I know you were equally surprised that a team of WNBA superstars didn't win the gold either)
  
  Bill Simmons: You know, I was going to write about it the following week, but I only got about 40 emails about it. I just don't think anyone cares. Same for the Ryder Cup. We know expect to lose these competitions, no matter what the sport is. I blame President Bush. We were a dominant world power athletically until he took over. Now we're a laughingstock. if he were a GM, we would have fired him by now.

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