Why/How do you think the U.S.A. Basketball team lost to the International teams?

Question

Cus i watched this year's Redeem team kill the other international teams like nothing. Except for the gold metal round when it was a good match up. But how did they lose last time? lose focus? get to cocky? allen iverson was the captain last time and he lost and this time he wasnt even invited to play? unno juss any other information would be cool. and what was the point difference when they lost? Thank you all for your replys :)

Answer 1

The big difference between the Americans and European countries is the athleticism. USA always puts together a hugely stacked team of all stars but they do not always gel and play well together. European teams, although not as tall or strong, practice for months together and develop much stronger team chemistry. Plus fundamentals are huge in Europe so their shots are all perfect, passes crisp and ball handling is solid for the most part. Usually USA's athleticism is too much for the European teams and they just have no answer to the intimidating defense and explosive offense of the States. If USA would practice more together as a team (like they did for these olympics) they should remain pretty much unbeatable for years to come.

Answer 2

The international teams this year were not as strong as other years, and the US did not kill every team, in the lead up games to the olympics with a full strength team the Redeem team only beat the Aussies by 11 points and the Aussies were without their best player Bogut. International teams play much better team basketball than the US teams.  

Answer 3

Lack of experience.. but i think they got it now :) compared to the performance they had in Athens 04.

Answer 4

Okay...lets not balme every thing on A.I first

they werent a team,they thought it was more of a All star game kinda thing ... where they can through alley oop the whole game,they didnt understand the concept of playing for their county for example here US all of player care about winning NBA championshipmore than anything so they didnt care about the gold.....and They didnt respect their opponent and some of them were young  and they all wanted to show off ....overall i think they had the talent But they werent committed ,they had superstar but they werent a team..