On playing for USA head coach Gregg Popovich: He’s my favorite coach of all time. Growing up, I’m a hoops junkie, watching a lot of the Spurs teams and he’s won. He’s won at every level he’s been at. So, to be here and learn, to be around him, it’s really great. What are you hoping to learn here from Pop? A little bit of everything. He’s been around the game for years and years and years, so I want to be a sponge. Not just Pop, we have Jay Wright here, Steve Kerr, so many great coaches. To learn from everyone is going to help me out tremendously.
USA basketball should go back to using lifer-type college coaches like coach K otherwise put a 3-year ban on nba coaching once you have finished coaching the USA team because it's a completely legal way of tampering in the NBA and a bit hypocritical of Pop to ever accuse anyone of tampering which the guy has been doing effectively for sometime now and getting off scot free for it. What's more effective tampering, Magic joking and winking on late night TV or getting to coach a star on a team filled with talent everywhere, in a drama-less environment throwing in a little a**-kissing and making it seem like you are the greatest coach ever? That's not tampering? FFS
Just make me coach. I'd run the C Bags players in to the ground and call dangerous alley-oops every time down the floor.
Its funny the the people on twitter even Lakers fans on twitter which this guy is posting the bad stuff and makes no mention of the good defense clips Kuzma had. Kuz's first minute in the game he's guarding John Collins and Collins is trying to overpower Kuz in the post. Kuz holds his ground keeps his hands up and makes Collins take a difficult shot. But instead we get the possession where he gets bullied. We're so hungry for info and clips that fans right now in the dog days of the season are over analyzing everything instead of just enjoying seeing our guy play. Or not play much if your Coach Pop...haha Kuz got like 2-3 mins in the 1st half.
Actually not, these are guys trying to make the team and impress coaches to give them a shot. This is no way this is like a Rising Star game where alley oops and no defense are at the forefront. I'm surprised the game wasn't closer watching it to be honest because the JV (select) team according to reports had been winning games in practice against the real team.
Yeah I was being tongue in cheek and kidding when RonStu said it wasn't real basketball. Didn't translate well.
Talentwise even a D or E team from the US should still have the chops to come out victorious. But history has proven that chemistry and system matters and usually team USA isn't as good as the European powerhouses in that regard. I hope Kuz makes the team, we will see though. Its a good confidence booster.
He'll be more motivated. If he makes it great because that experience will help. If not, its a bummer but he has more time to get his body ready for the year and less wear and tear. Just trying to look at the positives from both scenarios.
A while ago a guy on reddit i believe said he was in an apple store as the iphone of his brother (handicapped) was somehow not working. The apple store employee refused to send it in for repair for whatever reason and he said my brother was sad as Donovan Mitchell walked over, gave the guy a hug, forked the cash and got him a new phone. I do think he is a very nice guy.
If there wasn't already a ton of pressure from Lakers fans on Kuz to have a big season that just jumped up again now with the Cousins news.
My literal first thought when reading about Boogie was that now our championship aspirations are kid of on Kuz's back to a big degree. I hope I'm right about his potential.
Here's your chance Kuz. Channel your inner Mamba and become that 3rd star we desperately need right now.
