***2024 Olympics Thread***
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It's probably a better matchup. We'd played Serbia 3 times in a month, and Jokic is unguardable. I think they'll match up better with France, but the home court aspect will likely keep it close.
LeBron is a Swiss Army knife defender if he and a coach focus on it, the way he stuck with Rose that MVP year was nuts, then same guy was clearly the best defender today against Joker, a totally different kind of mvp player.
True. But France is not as good. They are playing on home court so they have that advantage.
Yeah to keep Jokich that in line today, you take that every chance you get.
I really don’t think any other player has ever existed who could defend both prime lightning DRose and prime mvp Jokic, let alone do it this long. One in a billion gifted. Of course he’s not as quick as he once was but he’s still insanely fast for a massive 40 year old guy.
I had to jump on a Zoom call before the 4th quarter started. Did I miss anything?
I've watched a lot of track the past couple of years, and I've never seen someone make up that kind of ground against the best there is while looking that labored to do so. That was unreal.
Did they just go to a commercial in the water polo match with 1:30 to go in a tied game!?!?!?!
No he sucks. And is the softest player I've ever seen
KidSilverhair
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You’re watching a replay I think. US-Australia women’s water polo ended a couple of hours ago (I saw it live).
Embiid is a statistically and physically talented player that just doesn't have it in some key intangible areas in terms of building a championship team around him. A loaded team like this hides some of it, but some of it still shows up when you compare him to leaders like LBJ, KD, Steph and Jokic out there today.
In the regular season it's pretty clear he has dodged Jokic on occasion and moving over LeBron to be his primary defender was probably key both to winning the game and getting some good stuff out of Embiid on the other end.
Sometimes, now hear me out here, sometimes the USA doesn't win.
I was rooting for the U.S., but as a big Nuggets fan, I was so proud of Jokic and his team.
They freakin played hard and didn’t back down for one second, despite being severely outmanned at all positions but one on the floor.
They freakin played hard and didn’t back down for one second, despite being severely outmanned at all positions but one on the floor.
Because that's probably still very different than sprinting for 200M.
