{"id":4524,"date":"2019-09-13T21:00:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T21:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.offshoresportsbooks.com\/news\/?p=4524"},"modified":"2019-09-13T21:01:21","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T21:01:21","slug":"usa-loss-in-basketball-world-cup-causes-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.offshoresportsbooks.com\/news\/usa-loss-in-basketball-world-cup-causes-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Loss in Basketball World Cup Causes Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>After\nthe United States finished 7<sup>th<\/sup> in the Basketball World\nCup, notable sports figures have expressed their concerns. Director\nJerry Colangelo has outlined the current problems and propose\nsolutions.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">US Basketball Primacy Long Gone \n<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Following\na disappointing showing in the <strong>Basketball World Cup<\/strong>, USA\nbasketball managing director <strong>Jerry Colangelo<\/strong> spoke to media on\n<strong>Thursday<\/strong>, addressing concerns that the country may have lost\ndominance in one of the key sports that it has helped develop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking to the media, Mr. Colangelo expressed his firm belief that the team had played to the best of its ability. Yet, he also mentioned that nobody had expected the pull-outs the team had to deal with. As a result, the USA <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nba\/story\/_\/id\/27598499\/team-usa-hits-historic-low-fiba-world-cup\" target=\"_blank\">finished seventh<span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> <\/span><\/a>in the world cup \u2013 crumbling one position after its previous worst showing in <strong>2002 <\/strong>when the country finished <strong>sixth<\/strong>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There had\nbeen many objective reasons that had stopped the United States from\nshowing in full strength, with players citing injuries, personal\nengagements and training schedules, making them unavailable in the\nend. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With so\nmany players dropping out or being cut, the United States was left\nwith a rather smaller-than-expected pool of players to draw from.\nYet, Mr. Colangelo never mentioned a single player&#8217;s name as the\nreason why the team had lost to enter the finals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"us-world-cup-team-isnt-loaded-with-superstars\">US World Cup Team Isn&#8217;t Loaded with Superstars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The truth\nis that the United States doesn&#8217;t put as much emphasis on the World\nCup when it comes to basketball. In fact, only <strong>two<\/strong> of the <strong>12\nparticipating<\/strong> U.S. players in the World Cup had an <strong>All-Star<\/strong>s\nstatus in the NBA, indicative of the country&#8217;s rather more modest\nambitions in the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nevertheless,\nfor the upcoming <strong>2020 Tokyo Olympics<\/strong>, chances are that the\nUnited States will seek a far better showing, having won three\nconsecutive gold medals already. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the\nreasons that Mr. Colangelo cited for the loss was that the U.S. Team\nhad overplayed its hand:w<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The players did everything they can do. They are a good group of guys. But we went in with higher expectations in terms of roster and it didn\u2019t kind of happen the way we were hopeful and anticipating and expecting. That, to me, was a big disappointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr.\nColangelo also explained that going forward, a lot more efforts will\nneed to be put to have ready teams that can compete internationally\nand help the country stand tall in one of the games that it has\nexported to the rest of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To achieve\nthis, Mr. Colangelo believes that there will need to be better\ncooperation between teams, agents, and individual players. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Responding to the latest developments, <strong>Kobe Bryant<\/strong>, the legendary player himself <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/article\/2019\/09\/13\/kobe-bryant-chimes-state-team-usa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">chimed in to remind the United States<\/a> that the country was no longer at the top of the game&#8217;s food chain. &#8216;It&#8217;s not going to be a catwalk,&#8217; Mr Bryant had to say describing the current situation in the national team.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8216;We\u2019re\ngoing to have our challenges for the next team, whether it\u2019s Redeem\n2 or whatever you want to call it. No matter what team it is, it\u2019s\nnot going to be easy,&#8217;<\/em> he concluded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the United States finished 7th in the Basketball World Cup, notable sports figures have expressed their concerns. Director Jerry Colangelo has outlined the current problems and propose solutions. 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