August 6, 2004

I Have But One No-Look Pass to Give For My Country

Posted by Jason Snell at 5:00 PM in Basketball

What I know about basketball could fit in a thimble. What I care about basketball could fit in an even smaller thimble.
That said, Ric Bucher’s column on the sorry state of USA Basketball is a great read. And the nub of his gist — that forming a full-time national team, even if it’s composed entirely of nobodies, is a much saner alternative than the current system of patching together a team of the best-available all-stars for a few weeks every Olympiad — is absolutely correct.