Sue Bird and Carmelo Anthony talked about their experiences playing for team USA basketball in a recent episode of Melo’s podcast. Bird claimed that playing for team USA was the most uncomfortable basketball she’s ever played. Do you think the players’ on the men’s team feel the same way?
This was actually part of what killed Canada against France yesterday. We didn’t have great bigs on our roster but our players weren’t making up for it by boxing out. You could tell a lot of these dudes are used to playing with actual bigs on their NBA teams and aren’t used to crashing the boards/boxing out, which is part of the reason we lost. Giving up some OREB’s make sense because obviously we’re the smaller team, but we gave up way too many because a lot of our players were just ball watching or running back to the other end.