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Realistic....involve the team USA people. Whose your 12 and does Rose make it if the big 3 show up for Gold (Lebron, melo, Durant)




PG Curry
SG Durant
SF Lebron
PF Davis
C Aldridge

6th man Melo
Rose
Paul
Thompson
Fareed
Drumonds
Harden
 

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Rose
Butler
McDermott
Gibson
Noah

Gasol
Mirotic
Brooks
Snell
Hinrich

#GoldMedal
 

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Paul
Kobe
Durant
Griffin
Davis

Rose would be the backup PG though ...
 

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I think it'd be pretty realistic to see

Paul
Harden
Durant
Lebron
Davis

Rose
Griffin
Love
Melo
Curry
Thompson

That team could do weird things like run Durant at SG and play with Durant, Lebron, and Melo at the same time. Still can use a lot of the Lebron/Melo/Durant at stretch 4 thing that Coach K likes to run with...good amount of 3pt shooting options, can play big if needed. I could see some other players making it though.
 

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I think LeBron said he's done competing in the Olympics..
 

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5- Anthony Davis, LaMarcus Aldridge
4- Kevin Love, Blake Griffin, Carmelo Anthony
3- LeBron James, Kevin Durant
2- James Harden, Arron Afflalo
1- Chris Paul, Derrick Rose, Stephen Curry

These would be the 12 players I'd sent in 2016. I think I'd rather have an extra tradition shooting guard who plays off of the ball. One thing I've noticed about this team is that with all of the ball-handlers (and James Harden hogging the rock), there isn't enough movement in the half-court offense. Spain and France would be the only legitimate threat and you need to be able to run plays against them- not just run-and-gun or isolation plays. I choose Afflalo, but Bradley Beal or Klay Thompson would be a good fit. I don't like Klay and Harden in the role of SF. Rather have them as SG's.
 

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5- Anthony Davis, LaMarcus Aldridge
4- Kevin Love, Blake Griffin, Carmelo Anthony
3- LeBron James, Kevin Durant
2- James Harden, Arron Afflalo
1- Chris Paul, Derrick Rose, Stephen Curry

These would be the 12 players I'd sent in 2016. I think I'd rather have an extra tradition shooting guard who plays off of the ball. One thing I've noticed about this team is that with all of the ball-handlers (and James Harden hogging the rock), there isn't enough movement in the half-court offense. Spain and France would be the only legitimate threat and you need to be able to run plays against them- not just run-and-gun or isolation plays. I choose Afflalo, but Bradley Beal or Klay Thompson would be a good fit. I don't like Klay and Harden in the role of SF. Rather have them as SG's.
Interesting choice of Afflalo. I don't think he's even in the pool of players, but that'd be a flashback to the Redeem Team where they picked a lot of guys that were good team players, but not necessarily the most talented (Tayshaun Prince, Michael Redd, Carlos Boozer, they even had Hinrich before he dropped out). Not really a bad thing at all.
 

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Hinrich would start for Team Murica. (actually, that would be one fun team to build).

Hinrich
Harden
MWP
Humphries
Dwight
 

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