90sgoat
07-25-2021, 10:25 AM
You will hear it first here on ISH, then it will spread to other places.
I've watched all the FIBA games in full for the US.
What I've noticed are several things, some can be fixed, such as being unfamiliar with the Molten ball (less bouncy, heavier).
Others are more fundamentally more wrong, such as the lack of on floor leaders and high IQ point guards.
The problem for the US is, as much as they call themselves a players league, the NBA game has many more stops and timeouts than in FIBA.
This requires players to make more decisions, more defensive adjustments on the floor, and the US struggles mightily in adjusting defensively on the fly.
US team plays well into the 3rd quarter, but struggles to keep it up in the 4th, in which the euro teams, bring out their secret sauce recipes and tactics.
They're getting outcoached, outsmarted.
You would think Draymond would play that role, but imo he has always been more of a help defender, than a true defensive anchor like Duncan or Gobert.
The US team ****ed up big time by not getting a high IQ point guard like CP3 or TJ McConnell.
I've watched all the FIBA games in full for the US.
What I've noticed are several things, some can be fixed, such as being unfamiliar with the Molten ball (less bouncy, heavier).
Others are more fundamentally more wrong, such as the lack of on floor leaders and high IQ point guards.
The problem for the US is, as much as they call themselves a players league, the NBA game has many more stops and timeouts than in FIBA.
This requires players to make more decisions, more defensive adjustments on the floor, and the US struggles mightily in adjusting defensively on the fly.
US team plays well into the 3rd quarter, but struggles to keep it up in the 4th, in which the euro teams, bring out their secret sauce recipes and tactics.
They're getting outcoached, outsmarted.
You would think Draymond would play that role, but imo he has always been more of a help defender, than a true defensive anchor like Duncan or Gobert.
The US team ****ed up big time by not getting a high IQ point guard like CP3 or TJ McConnell.