Aside from Team USA’s utter dominance on the court so far in these Olympics, the bigger story is of course Steve Kerr and his bozo-level rotations. It started with Jayson Tatum getting a DNP-CD because Steve Kerr in his own words said he couldn’t find a lineup combination that made sense (lie) and that in a 40 minute game you can only play 10 guys (lie). Then it happened again against South Sudan when it was Embiid’s turn to get a DNP-CD despite Steve Kerr suddenly finding a way to play 11 guys after previously telling us you can only play 10. He once again hid behind the “matchup” excuse despite Embiid playing fine against South Sudan in the tune up games.
The point is, Kerr seems obsessed with creating all of this drama for no apparent reason. I’m pretty sure it doesn’t matter what players from Team USA are on the court, the US is going to be just fine against the rest of the field. Acting like certain players need to be DNP-CD in order for Team USA to win is easily one of the more outrageous things we’ve ever seen when it comes to this team competing against the rest of the world.
Now, when it comes to the media, there are two sides here. In one corner, you have someone like Windy who is in Paris and clearly got a certain message from either Kerr or Team USA to start framing these decisions a certain way, which I found interesting
