Tyrese is headed to the Olympics to win the Gold for the USA. Congratulations.
Tyrese Haliburton goes for Gold
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So, if team USA wins the gold medal, will Haliburton get a banner in Hilton for it?
I know that there are a few Olympic gold medal banners in there (mostly for wrestlers), so I would guess that he would get a banner next to those.
I know that there are a few Olympic gold medal banners in there (mostly for wrestlers), so I would guess that he would get a banner next to those.
Just coming to post this. I hope he gets a gold medal.
He and Edwards are the only two “young” guys added in. Edwards totally deserves it quite obviously. I have to admit Brunson had a great season getting Knicks where he did but Tyrese is the far better player to surround with talent and play in international style games. He really is the ideal player to plug in with all star talent, he’s going to be deadly shooting when nobody can key on him too.
Sure glad this got posted here, probably won’t make it to the evening news, because…uh you all know why!
Brunson is a pretty big snub. Holiday over Brunson, or frankly a bunch of guys is nonsense.
They'll hang it after he graduates
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ISU needs to work on getting one of the Olympic Team Exhibition Games played @ Hilton Coliseum!
Brunson had a 61-point game this season but it took 47 shots to do it. If they chose Haliburton over him it’s because of what you said, he fits the style better. No bias involved Id take Hali over Brunson for the same reason. He’s just a better facilitator. Both good, just different players.
Yeah, they are very different styles of point guard. I think Brunson might be getting a little too much hype for getting NYC to the "#2" spot in the east. If the top players in the east had stayed healthy they're probably 4th and even as things are they're 3 games out of 7th and 4 games out of 8th. It was just a cluster of teams.
If Kerr was actually trying to win for team USA last summer he should have played Edwards and Haliburton together instead of platooning Edwards with ball dominant Brunson. It's not that he really played Brunson more than Hali, it's that he played Brunson with the starters where Haliburton is a better fit with the starters and Brunson is a better fit dominating the ball with the reservers. Also thought Brunson's length was a liability in some of those losses on defense.
Hali can spread the floor off ball in a huge way, and will look to get guys like Steph, LeBron, etc heavily involved while being super unselfish in doing so.
Another question...will local sports media give any coverage like they did for CC?
It's probably a snub, but Holiday was so important to the last Olympic team that it was probably really difficult to keep him off of the 2024 team.
I feel like last summer's World Cup illustrated this well. Even though Brunson was pretty dominant as an individual, the US seemed to play better as a team with Haliburton running the show.
They'd have won if the substitution pattern had Hali/Edwards together and Edwards more minutes. Nobody in the competition could stop Edwards...except Brunson.
Honestly I have no idea how Brunson doesn’t make it. As a die hard Clones and Knicks fan I would say those 2 are pretty equal. Really depends on what type of basketball you want. If you want an elite passer you pick Hali. If you need an elite scorer you pick Brunson. Olympic team needs elite passing before elite scoring.
