Quote from: tsaroz on July 27, 2019, 02:35:48 PM

Quote from: Daniel91 on July 27, 2019, 01:45:58 PM

What is going on with American national basketball team?
A lot of players have given up from playing for the national team at the World Championships.
Anthony Davis, CJ McCollum, James Harden, Eric Gordon, Tobias Harris, Bradley Beal, Damian Lillard, DeMar DeRozan, Kevin Love and recently Paul Millsap.
It seems that Kyle Lowry is also very close to give up, according to some rumors.
I think that this time Serbia really have good chance to beat USA, what do you think?

NBA is becoming more and more politics every year. And there's no solid reason for any of the NBA stars refusing to play for the national team. Though all of them have some alibi, it's definitely their choice rather than the situation.
As of the winning team, I still don't think USA has any tough competitor for this tournament. With the current double league, only the best teams would reach the Quarters.

Looks like you're right.
Americans will probably need to have several shocking defeats again, like ten years ago, to become serious again and to start sending the strongest teams to world competitions again.
I agree, their national team is still the best but other national teams now have more possibility and chances to beat them, specially Serbia.