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defska17
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http://espn.go.com/nba/news/2002/0908/1429026.html
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The United States must now put together another team next summer to participate in a qualifying tournament for the 2004 Olympics.
No decision has been made yet on where the tournament will be held, and the site could have a huge bearing on which players will agree to represent the United States.
If the tournament is held in Canada or Puerto Rico, the U.S. should not have a problem fielding a team that can clinch one of the three spots for teams from North and South America.
But if the tournament is held in South America, where it will be winter next July, or in a place such as Cuba, where the creature comforts so common to American players are nonexistent, it may be difficult for the American federation to put together a team good enough to qualify for Athens 2004. |
What a shame.
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Nate
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| Posted: 9/10/2002, 9:49 am Post subject: |
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Amazing that our poor play may actually cost us a spot in the Olympics. I'm not really liking this new generation of USA basketball.
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Patrick
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Spike
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| Posted: 9/12/2002, 4:12 pm Post subject: An embarrassing finish |
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Okay that was really, really embarrassing. 
That last game (the 5th place game *gag*) was a complete joke. Team U.S.A. actually led in the 4th Quarter of that game and then just checked out mentally.
No Shaq, Kobe, Webber, Iverson, or McGrady on the team but still this team should have done better than that.
And to think we were playing at home too (it was at Indianapolis). I wonder how badly the team would have done if this Tournament was at a hostile environment like Belgrade, Yugoslavia. |
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