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So what’s really going on here? What are we looking at? What are we seeing? What’s the takeaway from the lack of dominance and uninspired play?
What are our expectations? Theirs? Both realistic and exaggerated.
As with the directive handed out last week in the immediate aftermath of jumpstarting Kamala Harris’ Madame POTUS campaign, it seems like with the United States men’s basketball team there is not a “We got the assignment” response to the urgency. And when your inferred pound-for-pound best player (Joel Embiid, according to Joel Embiid) says out loud, “On this team, I don’t have to do nothing, just chill,” you kinda already know what moving forward this has a chance to become.