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Originally Posted by LonghornDub
I'll disagree here. The way I see it, rooting against the basketball team comes off as a consistently gross over exaggeration of how "bad" or dislikeable the players on the team are.
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I don't dislike any of the players. Individually, they are all okay. But collectively, they are like a high school team competing with junior highs for the title.
There is just no "sport" in it. And that's what the Olympics are supposed to be about. Either sport, or brilliance. It's okay for there to be a Jesse Owens or a Mark Spitz or a Michael Phelps, where the outcome wasn't much in doubt, as long as what you get instead is something kinda generational. But this basketball team? They are going to win the gold medal walking away, and there isn't going to be anything at all excellent about it.
The hockey team in '80 was the best Olympic moment in most of our lifetimes. Not the "Dream Team" in '92. This year's basketball games will be spectacles, that's for sure--and I will certainly be tuned in, like everyone else--but they will be a long, long way from sport.