Team USA: Youth Movement Will Improve London Roster
August 4th, 2010 by Jamie Ellis Leave a reply »Win or lose, the summer of 2010 will be a positive experience for USA Basketball. Even though the United States hasn’t won gold at the prestigious event since 1994, there is much less national attention or pride associated with the World Championships than there is with the Olympics.
Repeating with gold in the 2012 Olympics still remains the primary focus of USA Basketball.
With all 12 members of the gold medal-winning 2008 team skipping the World Championships this summer for a myriad of reasons, all members of the team save, for Jason Kidd and Michael Redd, remain part of the growing pool of available players to be used for the 2012 team.
After watching and evaluating the talent of the current USA roster throughout August and September in Turkey, imagine the embarrassment of riches Mike Krzyzewski and his staff will have when trying to assemble the next Olympic team.
Not only will the young standouts from this summer’s team be available (Derrick Rose, Kevin Durant, Stephen Curry), but most are expecting former Team USA members Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Chris Paul, Dwight Howard, Chris Bos ...
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