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Posted: Sat 15:19, 24 Aug 2013 Post subject: Dream Team goes to Olympic camp |
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Dream Team goes to Olympic camp
America most eager good players will lace up their sneakers and don "USA" jerseys as training camp opens today for the Olympic men basketball team, but most of the best players from the birthplace of basketball won be in attendance.
"The players we have here want to be here. That important,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," said Jim Tooley,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the executive director of USA Basketball. "I think that go a long way."
Rejection has been the recurring theme for Tooley over the past several months as one superstar after another withdrew or turned down an invitation to represent the United States in Athens,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
There is nobody, aside from coach Larry Brown,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], representing the NBA champion Detroit Pistons.
Looking for a Laker,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], past or present? Lamar Odom is the only one,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], filling a void left by the withdrawal of Kobe Bryant and the rejected invite by ex-Laker Shaquille O whose summertime focus will be relocating to South Beach rather than getting ready for Greece.
Tracy McGrady isn around,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], either, joining Elton Brand, Kenyon Martin, Kevin Garnett,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Richard Hamilton,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Ray Allen, Ben Wallace, Jason Kidd,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Mike Bibby,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Karl Malone, Reggie Miller and Jermaine O in a group of players who have decided because of injuries,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], security fears or indifference that staying stateside and watching from the cozy confines of a couch would be preferable to competing for a gold medal.
In their place is a roster that includes LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Dwyane Wade, Amare Stoudemire,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Carlos Boozer, Shawn Marion and Emeka Okafor.
With an average age of 23.6, it will be the youngest team to represent the United States since the Dream Team era began in 1992. Few of the players have extensive experience with international rules, and their unfamiliarity with each other will be one of the key obstacles for Brown to try to overcome.
Tim Duncan, Richard Jefferson and Allen Iverson are the only returning players from the squad that blitzed through an Olympic qualifying tournament in Puerto Rico last year, culminating with a stunning display of dominance in the championship game against Argentina.
This time, the Americans will be fielding an undersized but versatile roster. And none of the players is taking part grudgingly, as was the case two years ago at the World Championships and to a lesser degree four years ago in Sydney.
Perhaps this version of Team USA should be called the "Coalition of the Willing,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]."
"We done with nicknames," said Tooley, who chuckled at that proposed moniker while conceding it was somewhat fitting. "I don want to write history before it taken place. Let them name themselves as they go through this."
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