Team USA v. Team Carlos Arroyo Notes Chickenscratches
August 29, 2007
Posted by TheHype in International Ball , trackback
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• Right off the bat, Bill Walton says that tonight is the first night Team USA wears the blue uniforms instead of the whites. Man, I love Big Red’s crazy ol’ prose as much the next dude, but c’mon, short term memory loss much?
• Separated at birth Puerto Rico’s head coach and Carl
• Holy crap, Peter John Ramos freakin blocked Dwight Howard clean — and then stares him down! Nothing good will come of this
• Yes yes yes, Kobe Bryant, best player in the NBA yes yes. So that doesn’t make him just the best “secret” weapon on Team USA; it makes him the Ultimate X Factor. It’s like building a robot and you just happen to have spare Adamantium lying around. Just not fair.
• Bill Walton’s worst nightmare: Amare Stoudamire takes and makes a three. I don’t know how I feel about this — on one hand, I love it when Chris Bosh does it, but on the other STAT should keep dunking on people’s faces, that’s like worth way more than 3pts … more like 3.1 pts
• Whenever Jason Kidd isn’t on the floor, Team USA’s defense just isn’t as clamped down. A couple times Puerto Rico’s guards were able to drive pass, splitting the pick and roll
• Hilariously awkward moment: Melo grabs an offensive rebound and dunks hard, doing the usual kicking of the legs, it’s all very cool … that is, until landing and he falls on his ass … just one of those “damn he’s cool… what the… ahahahhaa”
• and I don’t mean to sully Carmelo’s game, dude’s just doesn’t miss and knows exactly how and when to score. It’s so fun to see him get shot after shot
• Alert the press! First half Tyson Chandler sighting!
• PJ Ramos is too funny: he pins his man on the block, very open … looks around without seeing the ball, and then he gets the feed right on the money and he looks totally suprised to get it like, “shit! this works!”
• Okay, even in the NBA LeBron is a fucking tank… here, at the FIBAs, LeBron is like Godzilla and Voltron had a lovechild during one of their special dates to the tune of Making Love Out of Nothing At All by Air Supply
• Eh, everyone and Zeus knew that Team Carlos Arroyo couldn’t recapture that 2004 Athens spark and beat the US, so I’ll just end this with a note saying how unbelievably awesome that we get to watch Kobe Bryant & LeBron James & Carmelo Anthony AND Jason Kidd AND Dwight Howard all running together.
I mean, c’mon, this is like a dream even though they are rolling over everyone, it’s just too cool to pass off the “nah, no more Dream Team talk until they win” shit. This is happening and I’m glad I got to watch it for a week straight
• PS: I want a poster of this
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