Team USA Knows Its Achilles' Heel

2008/07/24 22:57:10 @NBA.com: News

In the LAS VEGAS SUN, Rob Miech writes "the pick-and-roll, those are the three dirty little words to Team USA. ‘They've hurt us pretty bad,' Kobe Bryant says. ‘We're looking forward to the challenge, to see if we can negate that problem.' Foreign squads have picked U.S. teams apart and rolled them aside, keeping the Americans from playing in the past three international finals — two world championships and an Olympics. That's a record for futility for Team USA. ‘That's the bread-and-butter play for many countries,' Jason Kidd says. ‘In the past, that's something that has hurt us. We haven't communicated as well as we should have.'”
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