Reply #12: And let's mention one more thing [View All]

Yes, I'm going to complain about the officials.

One of them, from Serbia-Montenegro, officiated all three teams the US lost. Hmm.

The other is from Spain. Did you see or read about all the problems we had at the end of the game against Spain last night?

Hmm.

And Tim Duncan picks up a bunch of bullshit fouls, the officiating is so bizarre the players basically don't know what they're allowed to do from one minute to the next.

We all also need to realise that international play is substantially different. And this team was put together poorly, in large part thanks to people like Shaq and Garnett refusing to represent their country.

The problem was that Duncan was IT. Once he went out, we had no interior presence whatsoever.

Tim Duncan is the best player on the planet, but he can't do much sitting on the bench with crap fouls. And taking Duncan out was all that was required to beat the US.