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Like I didn’t see that one coming.

So, the USA is out of the World Basketball Championships. Big surprise, folks. Actually wait, no it’s not. If you haven’t figured it out yet, let me repeat what the “experts” have been saying all along: the US team could win an NBA Championship, but they aren’t suited to the international game yet.

Here’s where I’ll say something a little different: I think that this team *will* win a gold medal at the 2008 Olympics. In fact, I’m going to put money on it as soon as possible, provided I can get better than 1:5 odds. Unlike the other teams in the competition, the USA hasn’t been playing together since they were kids, hasn’t grown up desperate to beat the USA, and hasn’t grown up learning the pass-happy, team-first game that wins these tournaments.

Who saw this coming? Me. That’s who.

I *do* think they’ll get there - in time for the Qualifying Tournament, and the next Olympics. And I’m not going to pretend that I picked Greece and Spain to be in the finals (actually, I picked Argentina to win). However, if you thought this was going to be the cake walk that some people did, you were kidding yourself.

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That’s it from me for now. Have a good weekend.

~Hansel.

Posted by Hansel Wei on Friday, September 1st, 2006 at 10:04 am.