{"id":4,"date":"2004-08-22T20:44:08","date_gmt":"2004-08-23T01:44:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-23T04:54:09","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T09:54:09","slug":"dream-team-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2004\/08\/22\/dream-team-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Dream Team No More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After yesterday\u2019s debacle I hope that the current NBA representatives known as would-be Dream-Teamers will be known as the clank and crib club.  This new generation of \u201cplayers\u201d \u2013 these guys are truly an embarrassment to the US and to the NBA.  It is time to get back to fundamentals.<\/p>\n<p>I think I what I had to say on this matter yesterday was somewhat more cleaver, but all of that was lost with the hack attack.  Too bad.  Still, something has to be said, even if I have now lost my thunder.<\/p>\n<p>I will leave it at this.  The current Olympic team is a disgrace to the fundamentals of the game.  Does anyone even care?  These guys are almost irrelevant; just a bunch of NBA Ballers that are out for the individual instead of the team.  The rest of the world understands the basic concepts of the game \u2013 teamwork, possession, precession passing, parameter shooting, and sound shots from the charity stripe.  These birds may yet win which as an American I truly want, but man-o-man do they piss me off.  You cannot just throw together 12 NBA \u201csuper stars\u201d and hope to intimidate the rest of the field, let alone take home the gold.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After yesterday\u2019s debacle I hope that the current NBA representatives known as would-be Dream-Teamers will be known as the clank and crib club. This new generation of \u201cplayers\u201d \u2013 these guys are truly an embarrassment to the US and to the NBA. It is time to get back to fundamentals. I think I what I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2004\/08\/22\/dream-team-no-more\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dream Team No More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2124,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/2124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}