Team USA hasn’t even taken the court yet in Tokyo and there’s alredy been furious reactions to the shaky exhibition losses to Nigeria and Australia.
The main problem is just time: the NBA season was messed up by Covid and is ending quite late by normal standards with three members just arriving in Tokyo right after the Finals ended. There’s just not time to do much team building.
And naturally, people are questioning the process. What Jerry Colangelo and Mike Krzyzewski designed worked very well for 12 years. Is it outdated?
Should we go to a standing national team as William C.