Game Recognize Game (Brand on Miller)

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Taken from the larger article on Brand and his thoughts on Team USA: http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2583675:


"According to Brand, that small lineup needs fixing too. The All-Star power forward -- who averaged 17.4 minutes per game -- played in all nine games but started only four, spending some of that time playing the less familiar center position. Brand says the team could use more big bodies like his.


'Big Brad Miller can shoot the ball and he'll hit some 3s, but the rotations being what they were, he didn't get the playing time,' Brand says of the Kings' All-Star center, who failed to log any minutes in the tourney's final three games and ultimately logged a team-high five DNPs. 'A lot of [our opponents'] bigs would have had a problem matching up with Brad, but he didn't play at all.'"

 

[AriesMar27]

that team was horrible.... they had good bigs but didnt use them and no outside shooting..... i swear that miller was their best 3pt shooter....

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

The team was not "horrible."

 

[G_M]

The team was not "horrible."

I agree. They just had no identity. Also, there is something to this "chemistry" thing that we all hear about.

 

[Sac.Kings]

Brad was the best 3 point shooter (not in % though) IMO. Everyone else couldn't buy a three. JJ thought that the offense was wasted if he didn't pull from 3 every other possesion and the same goes for Carmelo.

 

[d0rkus]

agreed on the outside shooting part, i was pissed that coack k didnt give brad any minutes on the game vs greece to atleast give a boost on the offensive end w/ his jump shooting.

 

[nbrans]

The team was not "horrible."

The team wasn't terrible, but the coaching sure was.

 

[Kings113]

that team was horrible.... they had good bigs but didnt use them and no outside shooting..... i swear that miller was their best 3pt shooter....

Team wasn't horrible. They didn't have much chemistry and were mostly young, I agree the bigs weren't really used right or enough.

 

[BMiller52]

The team was not "horrible."

Nope it was Coach K that was horrible.

 

[6th]

I was disappointed in the team, but it mostly stemmed from the coaching decisions. I cannot believe we played so much small ball. We had bigs sitting on the bench that could have helped while the young "I will show you how good I am" players played like crap against International players.

 

[SacTownKid]

I agree. They just had no identity. Also, there is something to this "chemistry" thing that we all hear about.

That and as Brand is saying, they shouldn't have gone small with Lebron at PF. It didn't work that well. Brand, Howard, and Brad need to be on the floor together a lot.

 

[Sac.Kings]

I wish Brad could have played more, he would have helped if he ever got the ball. He probably wouldn't have even shot the ball playing in the game since we had so many Allen Iverson wannabes on the USA team. Its like the US players were competing who can handle the ball more without passing and taking the stupidest jumpshots while they were at it.

 

[BigSong]

whoa i didnt know Brand was producing films, thats cool. especially because the film mentioned in the article is one i definitely want to see, called rescue dawn. become a big fan of Bale, since Batman.

 

[AriesMar27]

The team was not "horrible."

they were beaten by a team that was blown out by a spanish team that didnt have their star player.... i probably could have come up with a team full of bench players and non all-stars that would have eaten those teams alive... okay maybe a few all-stars... just no superstars....

 

[Kings113]

they were beaten by a team that was blown out by a spanish team that didnt have their star player.... i probably could have come up with a team full of bench players and non all-stars that would have eaten those teams alive... okay maybe a few all-stars... just no superstars....

The team was not "horrible."

Plate.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

they were beaten by a team that was blown out by a spanish team that didnt have their star player.... i probably could have come up with a team full of bench players and non all-stars that would have eaten those teams alive... okay maybe a few all-stars... just no superstars....

They were beaten by the reigning European Champions. They were not horrible.

 

[piksi]

they were beaten by a team that was blown out by a spanish team that didnt have their star player.... i probably could have come up with a team full of bench players and non all-stars that would have eaten those teams alive... okay maybe a few all-stars... just no superstars....

Despite the fact that USA hasn't won a gold since 2000 and hasn't even reached a single final - You still continue to disrespect other teams that are more succesfull. BB is a deep sport now and winning gold will require more than just showing up. A 3rd place is a good result. There were 2 teams that played better at this point of time. In 2 years - 3 other teams can split the medalls.

 

[Sac.Kings]

The USA team just has no chemistry and when you have JJ, LeBron, DWade and Carmelo, ball hogging becomes an issue. Now they want to add Kobe, which will help shooting wise, but kobe needs the ball in his hands to be truly effective, as if you didn't already know that. I wonder if Team USA will ever figure out that with so many stars on a team, problems will occur. There are too many stars but not enough shane battiers on the team.

 

[acisking]

Hnestly, Brad is the prototype international big man and its time people began to acknowledge that.