Greece would not have succeeded getting a place in the Olympics if it were only Giannis playing well. The entire Greek team is actually playing like a proper team, and Spanoulis, their new coach, is actually using Giannis's strengths to fit in well with the rest of the team.

'' Heroic effort by Giannis"? You didn't watch the games did you?

From your commentary it seems that you haven't watched any games from the pre-Olympic tournaments

4 to 6 steps not allowed in real basketball. I hope the US can adjust.

Come on Serbia 🇷🇸🔥

3:50 there is goaltending in FIBA, just no offensive/defensive basket interference. You can’t swat the ball on its way down

Who else wants this USA team to fail miserably? Never have I seen such an unlikeable group of players. Egomania

Giannis antetokounmpo was not even the best player in his team during the qualifiers... American reporters saying things just for american audience. They have no clue what happens with the other teams...

Damn, Group A is M'fer for real, good luck to all those guys.

You guys are off on your stats. Curry never has played in the Olympics! Steph will do an amazing job….how could you two not know that? Really?

Puerto Rico mentioned 🇵🇷🔥🔥😂

Greece isnt just Iannis. They have european champion, Panathinaicos, greek team, some of key players are Greek players. Group A is faraway the strongest. Australia, ultra strong team. Spain, basketball superpower. Groups B and C are not week but not at level of group A.

The guys look a lot better after getting a little sun.

SPAIN is not a strong contender as she was as decade ago , I am from Serbia and only worried about Greece on a way to finals Canada is going to get schooled like last time - we played basket ball wen ABA and NBA still existed ....... Our lead couch is older than Biden maybe but he is for German BBall D. Stern and Jerry West in one - they should make him a LOGO For France, Germany and Australia we were almost dream team everything below 20 was good for them , but our basketball is in big decline because of strategy to play G-league American players instead our young guys upgraded with max 3 foreign players like before 2012. same happened to Italy (but they have 50 mill. people- big base) unlike Serbia and Croatia..... Turkey have 60-70 millions but same they paly 5th class Americans Feel sorry for Lithuania they have less than 3 mill. people but always good in basketball (and lucky at same time because they be in or group) I constantly repeating how these analyst don't know anything about Greece(joking about Antetokounmpo brothers who are not to 30 players) their BIGS are on par with France and close to USA (without Joel let say - who'll be 3rd option KAT) , and their backcourt is class above France's

Jrue Holiday starting. He rlly is HOF level.

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Guys, I think you should do better research. It is clear you are pretty much ignorant about strength of European teams. If that is the US perspective I think you will be surprised again for one more time

Haliburton was the best table setter last night, and had 4 steals + 1 block on defense. He got the most minutes last night, lets see if he still gets played like that in the real games.

If u are judging competition by only accounting for NBA teams payers, get ready for another 2006!….Serbia has quality players inside and outside the NBA. If the only thing you know about Greece is the Antentokounmpo names, then clearly you haven’t watched or followed anything. Rather than giving opinions, just say “I don’t know”….rather than sounding silly…

The curry less minutes take iwas crazy. Steph gonna give you a 8 3 pointer game

Steph Curry never played on Olympic team before. Get your facts right

'88 didn't lead to the Dream Team, before '92 pros weren't allowed in the Olympics. Are these guys seriously mixing up the 2008 Redeem Team with the Dream Team from1992? Get it together guys.

What is with Americans saying fiba has no goaltending..? There is goaltending. It’s just a different rule to ncaa and nba goaltending

clearly the players on the US have enough pride that they wanted to be there. they didn’t have to be but each of them chose to be

The Hall of Fame mention is a very big reason. For a lot of players a gold medal means a ticket to the Hall. Plus, becoming a hero in their country for ever.

It's not like there's no goal tending with FIBA rules. The difference is that in the NBA the ball has to be below the rim, while with FIBA rules the ball has to be in it's upward trajectory.

It seems those guys think basketball is only NBA. For Greece as an example , they state it has 8 Antentokoubos...when there only 2 brothers ..and 10 players coming as Euro league champions or final contestants...professional basketball players ..for many years in Europe. So insulting and diminishing for the national pride of the each nation...Get of your Horse...

The go to guy in money time for team USA ? KD. He can, he wants, he will. Unofrtunately (I'm French), I saw what he did 3 years ago in the finals.

Frankly, I think the overall Team USA focus and dedication is 1) better now than it was 20 years ago and 2) way better than I figured it would be back then. No, it's not at the level of, say, how Luka and Giannis feel about Slovenia and Greece. Well, that's a REALLY high level--and very understandable. But do I think there's a paucity of GAF factor in Team USA? No--they are serious about this.

And more over, would NBA players get enough time to adopt to FIBA rules. Two-step in FIBA is really 2 steps, if you make standard additional NBA half-step, it is already traveling. Also 3 second rule, although it seems not important much, change complete structure of defense and ofense. The point of any athlette, not just top ones, is that you practice something so much, so when time come, you do it without thinking, he is programmed to do it without thinking, if you start think over what you are doing, you are already behind. But it is body programme, one month preparation is not enough to reprogramme algorythm you enbodied whole life. So the big problem of USA team would be traveling, you eather would play with one leg tied always counting steps you didn't use to, or you would be in danger to travel a lot. Another thing, especially important for Embiid and Davis, by FIBA rules you cannot body bump defender, it is straight ofensive faul. So in that regard, Adam is on a right track: they must play team basketball, they cannot utilize individual game so much, ebcasue individual game underestimate exactly two main problems that in FIBA-rules basketball is not allowed: "extended" two-step and body bumps. There must be more ball flaw and off-ball movement, and less "I am king Lebron, look how I can pass all of them", because he used to "pass all of them" by extendended two-step and body bumps -- and you cannot reprogramme body overnight to overcome that in the heat of the game when you don't have tiem to think. P. S. And there is the main advantage NBA internationals have. They became players with FIBA-rules embodied in their body, that is their basic setting (that is why Nikola Jokić do more swirlings and piruets arround his defenders than bodybumps, bodybump is something he started to use only when he came to NBA...), so they would thave that luxury of comfortability in play. The USA can negate that only with team game, or they would play catch and shoot at once, and one night shooting would simply betray them...

USA won every single one of the last 4 Olympics. USA has 16 Gold Medals, Soviet Union 2, Yugoslavia 1 and Argentina 1. Soviet Union and Yugoslavia don't even exist anymore and Argentina didn't even qualify this year. And nobody else ever won even one single Gold Medal. I really don't see the problem.

Want some fit? Put Tatum, Holiday and DWhite on the court together. Gee, it's almost like they thought of that. You think that's not a fallback if they have any "meshing" issues?

Puerto Rico was the first Team to beat a Dream Team. It was 2004.

I'm Greek but I'm worried about the Greek team. Group is very hard, we won't have kostas sloukas one of the best playmakers in Europe, our coach is a legend but as a player, not experienced as coach. We might end last but you never know, we play better as underdogs.

Its not true that there is no goaltending in FIBA rules. It's true about defensive 3sek.

Thing with Booker he’s has experience in Olympics and was one of the key guys in 2020. He’s kinda a glue guy like jrue is, they both are important to play

keep underestimating everyone, then be surprised when people actually play smart ball

Are they allowed to cheat? Specially Lebron and Embid (travelling, flopping, offensive fouls, moving screens).

It will take the USA losing regularly for them to start to care about international play.

Jason Tatum will be a 7th man only because of fit and his versatility. He is clearly not just the 7th best player on this team. Get serious.

2 consideration 1. Go to guy the leader bla bla bla Is a stupid USA stuff in all others countries the coach coaching and players playing 2 Canada for team USA is the simplest team to play they play the same basket 3 the amount of irregular plays I see in this game are ridiculous 4 if they play in this way Vs European team they must hit 3 over 40% because they can't take rebound 5 there's no players who can score on 1vs1 because FIBA basket is played ever 5vs5

US team obviously needs to go with the player(s) who is hot. I’m not a Celtics fan, but Tatum just won a ring and with a mediocre-ish performance. I’m interested to see how he’ll respond. He’ll want to show he’s not dependent on Brown, which he was in June!

I don't think KD ( cant risk a calf atbhis age)or haliburton will play, from an Aussie, Drew and AD are the hardest problem to deal with

Tim is and will continue to be wrong about Team Canada. IF they play the US in the actual tournament, USA will win by 25. OR more. Canada doesn't have NEARLY enough size. Did you see AD shut down SGA FOUR STRAIGHT TIMES? It will be a slaughter.

Booker is not only going to play, he's going to start. One of I believe 6 guys on the team who have played in the olympics before (KD, LeBron, Bam, Jrue, and Tatum). He doesn't excel at any one thing but he also doesn't stand out as being bad at any one thing. When you have Steph, LeBron, and KD in your starting lineup, you don't need a scorer, you need a guy who plays as a connector, can defend, and can hit an open shot. Booker showed in the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 that he can be that "3&D" type roleplayer on a team with superstars, which Steve Kerr spoke on in an interview earlier this week.

What Tim says aobut TUSA concerns makes sense... in a vacuum. It is NOT how it is playing out in reality. They are and will be locked in. In that sense, they ARE like the Dream Team (for those who keep receipts and delve into hilarity--Al MacGuire, who was possibly wrong about more things than any basketball expert, ever--actually predicted the Dream Team would not win gold in '92. I'm serious). LeBron, Steph and KD are SO damned competitive. They will do whatever it takes and they want to utterly win.

Victor Wembanyama already knows them individually, their weaknesses, go go Spurs, go go France💥💥💥

Of course it means so much more to players from other countries cause they don’t put playing in their domestic league above playing for their national team and the superstars of the nba aren’t willing to be part of a team on reduced minutes and reduced production for the greater good. Why do you think kawhi left. ?? He’d rather go workout with the clippers than sit on the bench in Paris

I think Kerr and his team have their work cut out here. To much egos, to much talent, to manny players at different stages of their careers, aspirations, etc. And on top of that, there is also Embiid. Serbia, Canada and Greece have excellent teams and they will be highly motivated anf hungry. It's going to be an excellent tournament.

If they are going to LeBronze then the tournament's open

You guys never learn. Still messuring Quality of teams by number of NBA Players???

canada needs to be playing jamal and shai at all times js to be competitive

USA got lucky with the group draw

The lack of national pride among USA players is no surprise... America is not a nation, but a collection of other nations gathered in a certain territory. It is not important whether someone was born on the territory of America, but the origin, that is, the nation to which you belong.

Questioning the patriotism of the team & players feels weird. What are you doing Tim ?

My wants here are trivial. I want someone who shows a 'tude like Barkley did back in '92 when he did a murderous staredown of some poor kid from Angola. God, I would love to see that from someone to Dirty Dillon if they play Canada.

I hope Wemby wins.

They only know NBA

This commentary is weak at best. It seems like neither of these guys want to make any hot takes they just want to flounder around and don't want to actually say what they feel

I would argue we have more national pride than the majority of these countries. I just got into a conversation the other day with a french fan who was complaining about how we get mad when we lose and said we only care about winning and not the sport. These guys are losers. 😂😂😂

Our team doesn't even like the US. They even sit for the national anthem.

Only Canada can upset USA. Germany could give them troubles, Greece too... Spain is Spain and it's always there but they are lacking talent in this transition after the golden era with Gasol brothers, Rubio, Calderon, Navarro, Garbajosa, Sergio Rodriguez, Rudy Fernandez, Raul Lopez...