Tim Bontemps, Ohm Youngmisuk and Dave McMenamin project the starting lineup for Team USA at the 2019 FIBA World Cup, with Kemba Walker of the Boston Celtics, De’Aaron Fox of the Sacramento Kings, Donovan Mitchell of the Utah Jazz, Khris Middleton of the Milwaukee Bucks, P.J. Tucker of the Houston Rockets, Brook Lopez of the Bucks and Jayson Tatum of the Celtics listed.
Mr. Porter
August 14, 2019 at 7:50 pm
Kemba Mitchell Middleton Tatum Lopez
Kuzma sixty man
Bosnian Knight
August 14, 2019 at 8:16 pm
It doesnt even matter bring the fourth team of team USA they will win everything because they are beasts in the Basketball and you need to admit that
DanKyKonG SasqUatCh
August 14, 2019 at 10:42 pm
Fox is so underated
Mitchell
Middleton
Tatum
Turner
Mikel Moon
August 14, 2019 at 11:10 pm
1: Walker, Mitchell, Tatum, Tucker, Turner
2: Fox, Brown, Barnes, Middleton, Lopez
3: Smart (if healthy), Harris (if Smart not healthy), Kuzma
Ezra
August 15, 2019 at 12:29 am
I honestly dont mind if top players skip any tournaments. As a nation, we should be able to win these tournaments with ease considering how much the best league in the world is dominated by Americans. There’s still a lot of talent sitting at home.
M A K O
August 15, 2019 at 12:32 am
omg this team might not even medal
Jasonism
August 15, 2019 at 3:15 am
WE NEED LONZO!!! BELIEVE THE BALL!!!
kambge
August 15, 2019 at 7:19 am
the difference is in america your team literally owns you whereas in Europe every club understands the desires of players to play for their country. Also FIBA is more respected, it is seen as the world cup. Olympics has prestige but its actually an easier tournament to win as there are less teams especially now with the proper qualifying format of FIBA.
the other issue is that in america players play an unhealthy number of reg season games bringing some players to play 100 games per season. This is why you get injuries and players who are in the finals physically cannot play for their country consistently otherwise they will jeopardise their health – even giannis who loves to play for greece could not last eurobasket and he said it was the “hardest part of his career so far”. The bucks would not let him basically.
So this is the issue, its not about “raising your profile” and getting ads. It’s that the NBA dominates basketball whereas in other sports like football the biggest leagues do not (yet) dominate the international organisations. And US players play too much. They should lower the reg season to 60 games but the sponsors would not allow it. Take some money out. In Europe players get maybe half NBA wages but they also play around half the games and get a proper summer break, no more than 2 games per week. This is a better system. Take some of the money out and make the game better for everybody.
PS – USA only are mega favourites when they have all star lineup, when they pick b teams historically they struggle eg, 2000, 2002, 2006. Lets see what happens. Serbia Greece Spain France all very strong plus a lot of other good teams lithuania, argentina, interested to see how China play in their home country. Really a shame not to see Slovenia there. What an amazing run Dragic and Doncic had in last eurobasket. was special
Bobby Tsunami
August 15, 2019 at 7:38 am
NOBODY CARES about this shiT…. the NBA season where guys get 100 million dollar contracts to perform means MORE to us in the U.S.A. … the solution is take about 5 or 6 NBA players who are committed then sprinkle in “others” from G-League & a couple collegiate guys & maybe a couple Big 3 guys .. im sure a veteran or 2 like joe johnson sTAT or captain JAck can help .. & then u guarantee a couple non NBA guys from the fiba world cup team a spot on Olympic team do NOT just bump them for a whole NBA team in the Olympic year
Big Boom
August 15, 2019 at 8:21 am
Pretty sure Jaylen brown is the best wing defender but I’ll admit Middleton is the better shooter I don’t think pj tucker even makes the cut
Big Boom
August 15, 2019 at 8:23 am
Kemba
Mitchelll
Middleton
Brown
Turner
Big Boom
August 15, 2019 at 8:24 am
This guys are dumb we should have all ladies on the jump until Jena gets back
Juniorii Jr
August 15, 2019 at 8:33 am
Fox, Mitchell, Tatum, Kuzma and Myles Turner.
Kalela
August 15, 2019 at 8:34 am
Collins should be there in my opinion. Kid is a talent. Definitely over PJ Tucker.
BigJ954
August 15, 2019 at 10:54 am
This team is interesting
iGod-Viral
August 15, 2019 at 11:35 am
Tim’s Bontemps basically got mopped 37-16 they keep letting people on these shows that know very little basketball 😂😂
AC Games
August 15, 2019 at 11:55 am
I think it will be:
Kemba
Spida
KMidd
Tatum
Brook Lopez
But am surprised that nobody said Kuz
Alexander the great
August 15, 2019 at 12:17 pm
Nah for nothing but to start the captain of the USA team should be the rookie of the year,and the rest of the team should be all these rookies that just got drafted into the league,simple
Cienega 713
August 15, 2019 at 4:01 pm
Mitchell, Tatum, and Kemba are so overrated. I think Middleton is the best player in the team
xTRaNzPAReNT
August 15, 2019 at 4:46 pm
This is Kemba’s team. Ain’t no way in hell he’s coming off the bench lol.
Vinsanity
August 15, 2019 at 6:17 pm
I dunno if this squad can win it all. I feel like they need more especially against the giants like Spain and now Greece (Giannis)
Griemar Lesaca
August 15, 2019 at 7:00 pm
Treating the olympics as the real tournament is stupid.. how can it be grander than the world cup when there is a lot of sports that are played, and basketball is not the focus. Im so excited to see the US lose again
Mpanga Robert
August 15, 2019 at 8:26 pm
PG Kemba Walker / Fox
SG Donovan Mitchel
SF Khris Middleton/ J Tatum
PF Kyle Kuzma/ PJ Tucker
C Myles Turner / Brook Lopez
Michael Fernandez
August 16, 2019 at 4:14 am
That’s barely a playoff team😂 still the best in the world🥇
Meredith Leavitt
August 16, 2019 at 8:25 am
Walker
Smart
Brown
Tatum
Turner