i wasn't talking about the coaching part of it (even though you'd think one of the top college coaches would recognize how to defend a screen-and-roll) i was talking about the selection of the players (hence coach K AND the committee members)

as much as i hate to say it J.J. Redick is tailor-made for a competition like this...if coach K was gonna take any of his Dukies it should have been Redick...Battier over Bruce Bowen??? come on, are you serious? and in what way is Elton Brand good for international competition?

Brad Mller? what the heck, pick the team according to needs...looks to me like coach K kept half the ACC but left out some people who would have been vital to winning the tournament...he HAD to know the rest of the world would zone us to death and make us shoot outside

btw, i think it was a wise move to bring in a college coach who had some respectability but also didn't have anything to gain like an NBA coach would

coach K did a good job with those guys in terms of making them get out and play defensively b/c we needed transition buckets to win that tournament and the only way to do that with them playing zone is to get out on fast breaks and blow games open...Greece is no slouch, the rest of the world is catching up...we do not suck, we do not have attitudes and yes we can play defense [img]/LDPforum/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif[/img]

let coach K coach again, but let someone else pick the players...maybe Mark Few, Rick Barnes, Bruce Pearl, Roy Williams and the like...or a panel of retired coaches