What, no Olympics thread?

[johnsemlak]

We'll see if this holds up in later games, but as for today -- apparently Larry Brown found the real USA basketball team at halftime vs. Australia, and replaced the replicants that were wearing team USA jerseys.

Well, Larry Brown is a great coach, but in this tournament, he should have brought a real team. His team doen't seem to contain any decent outside shooters. They have great inside players but nothing from the outside. Watching then play, it's comical how the opposing teams simply give the US the outside shot, virtually nobody is a real threat.

It's not like there aren't any shooters available to the US.

 

[Wycen]

Not to take away from the athletes themselves, but could there have been any more ridiculous commentary? Elfi Schlegel seems to be OK, & Tim Daggett will always be somewhat over-the-top, but the remaining gymnastics commentator (name eludes me) might as well have been Fred Willard in Best In Show : (as one of the Japanese mens' team readies his routine): "He really needs to hit one out of the park here." ???

Yeah my dad said he was getting T'd off by one of the announcers, though I don't remember him mentioning who in particular. I kinda figure it's like the commentarors for WWE. One is the "normal" guy that talks about the heel wrestler being evil and the other points out the "good" points of the heel wrestler. Not that WWE is anything like the Olympics.

 

[Krug]

Man the Cuba vs China women's volleyball game was exciting. Cuba finally won the fifth set 15-13.

 

[Connorsrpg]

Originally Posted by stevelabny
and as for mystery man, in an olympic thread, you really have to specify WHICH football youre talking about. the fun american kind that isnt an olympic sport, or the boring international kind that would only be exciting if the cows were still grazing on the field during play.

Yeah or even, Aussie Rules Where they crash and bash each other for 2 hours WITH NO HELMETS AND PADDING!

Oh and the game goes for 2 hours, with only short breaks. Not the other way around. A few short plays and LOTS OF BREAKS, STITTING AROUND DISCUSSING PLAYS AND BLAH BLAH BLAH



BTW: I love the Olympics. I especially lved seeing USA lose basketball, and nearly lose again vs Aussies

But hey we'll take a 10 point lose every time vs the team that has now only lost 3 games in history. Interesting comparrisons on total team $ value too ;0

Connors

 

[Hypersmurf]

It was quite amusing listening to the commentators on the basketball game between New Zealand and Serbia-and-Montenegro last night.

NZL were down 13 points at the start of the 4th period, and the commentators were, if anything, sounding kinda bored.

Then about halfway through the period, NZL started scoring, and SCG stopped scoring, and the gap began to narrow, then disappeared...

... and the commentators started talking faster, and faster, and louder, and louder...

Funny

-Hyp.

 

[Staffan]

Speaking of beach volleyball, the two guys on the Swedish team are named Berg and Dahl. In Swedish, that means Mountain and Valley (though with a slightly odd spelling on the last one), which at least I find kind of funny.

Oh, and tomorrow Carolina Klüft will start her gold-taking - the heptathlon(?) is split up over two days, so it won't be final until Saturday, but her main competitor (Eunice Barber, France) isn't there so it should be a shoe-in unless she screws up totally.

 

[Ferret]

I don't know whether or not I'm disapointed about how many medal Great Britain has gotten... I didn't expect lots, but that isn't a good excuse either.

Oh well, lots of others getting medals. I don't know if I like the idea of things like tennis or football (the soccer kind) that already get coverage.

 

[Chaos Drake]

Well at least basketball is interesting this year. The US team plays like none of them wanna get hurt. I saw NZ play China and the Kiwis put up a good fight. Yao Ming shoving that NZ player to the ground should DEFINITELY have been a foul. Very unsportsmanlinke conduct.

 

[Ranger REG]

Well, Larry Brown is a great coach, but in this tournament, he should have brought a real team. His team doen't seem to contain any decent outside shooters. They have great inside players but nothing from the outside. Watching then play, it's comical how the opposing teams simply give the US the outside shot, virtually nobody is a real threat.

It's not like there aren't any shooters available to the US.

From what I hear, many of the better NBA players declined the invitation to join Team USA. Either that or they joined their home country's team.

Still, they're nothing like the original Dream Team that includes Air Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, etc.

 

[Ranger REG]

BTW: I love the Olympics. I especially lved seeing USA lose basketball, and nearly lose again vs Aussies

Honestly, I'll cheer for any team going against our Team USA Basketball.