Dream Team Meltdown Beginning Already
Whoever is in charge of our country’s national basketball program is insane. It’s official. Want the definition?
People who repeats the same behavior expecting different results are insane.
That’s just what is happening with our team again this go around. The era of complete and utter domination is light years behind us so we better start making some changes. Picking a bunch of superstar NBA players used to work. Now? Uh… not so much. This go around we’re already furrowing our brow over the lack of big men and pesky injuries.
Can someone tell me why we just don’t let whoever wins the NBA title represent America? Even if you pull of the foreign players, isn’t that still our best bet? Maybe not the Mavs or Lakers, but still. What about the NCAA champ? Something’s gotta give.
Maybe I’m alone in this, but I’m not excited about this year’s Olympics because I dread the inevitable meltdown that’ll come from our Dream Team (version 6.0) failing to bring home the Gold.
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Well, as to why not the NBA Champs and why the injuries: because the NBA season is such a prolonged drudgery. It wears on everyone. And whichever teams make it to the Finals wind up playing an extra 20-25 games (25% of a season) on average. Normally I’m reluctant to take up for the pro baller, but in this I’m with them. Their season is a grind and their off-season short. They need every day of it.
No loss there though. Is any athlete less emblematic of the Olympic Spirit, and selfless national pride than the NBA player?
I’ve alway been of the mind that we should send our NCAA Champs. Or maybe devise a way to select the team from the Final Four or Elite Eight that was least decimated by defections to the NBA.
Another idea I just remembered is creating a US National Team made up of a full-time staff that rolls players in, then out but requires a certain level of commitment from them–something like 2 years. Sounds feasible.