Camden wrote:This is a side comment, and it's not important at all in the discussion of how great Wiggins or Towns will be, but does anybody else wish they were from USA and played for USA? There's something awesome about knowing your NBA team has a gold medalist, and we'll never have that with those two (USA's too dominant in that setting). Not to mention, when teammates play together at Olympic competitions, they seem to grow together. I remember Steph and Klay talking about it last season and before that, I want to say DeMarcus and Rudy said it brought them closer. I bet KD and Russ, CP3 and Blake made comments as well, but I can't say that for sure. Our guys will play for teams that have no shot at winning gold, and will have to do Herculean things to get them to that level.
I don't know. Just a thought.
Yeah, I think it would be helpful if Wiggins/AB played together on a team that had a chance to win something more significant than the Latin American tournament they are in currently. They ran into a buzzsaw yesterday in the person of Scola, who always seems to elevate his game when he's playing for national pride, but I still think they have a good chance of winning this tournament...it's just not the same as winning a real international tournament, like the Olympics. Still, I think a good run in this tournament will cement Wiggins' and AB's relationship, and give AB his best chance of doing something in the NBA.
By the way, I think the Olympics are one of the main reasons we now have Wiggins. Kevin Love was just a role player when the 2012 Olympics began, but he eventually became an important player in winning that gold. I think LeBron recognized that Love was willing to do the dirty work on the court, and that eventually led to his insistence that the Cavs trade for him. Sometimes good fortune takes an unusual path.
