Well they did it, and now no one can complain about it for four years. “They” being the U.S. basketball team, and “it” being win the gold medal in the Olympics. Their performance was dominant under the direction of Coack K. And now NBA haters will have to bite their tongue when they launch into a criticism of the league.
Crushing the NBA has become fashionable for most sports fans. Calling it “unwatchable” and “boring” is now the thing to say so fans can sound like they know something about basketball. In not winning the gold medal in the 2004 Athens games, the NBA gave these folks even more ammo. Now those people will have to tone down their criticism as America’s team accomplished their mission in China.
Except for a brief scare in the gold medal game against Spain (the current world champion), Team USA blasted the international competition game in, game out. And they did primarily with defense. How about that? A bunch of NBA guys playing lights out defense. Further, they did it with guys like Kobe, Carmello, and Lebron playing team offense. The NBA may be a one-on-one league, but the Redeem Team showed us that these guys still understand team basketball.
So, for the next four years, the NBA may still be unwatchable and boring, but it will be gold medal unwatchable and boring, and all the poor mouthers will have one less thing to complain about. Oh, and by the way poor mouthers: I hope you are just as harsh on the United States Ryder Cup team when Europe hands it to them yet again. The Redeem Team could show those guys a thing or two about what it means to represent your country in a team sport.
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