agip wrote:
basketball is a freaky game - a together team can beat a much more talented team.
For example - how do you think this team did in the 2004 Olympics:
Carmelo Anthony
LeBron James
Tim Duncan
Allen Iverson.
Right, they got pummeled by Argentina and took bronze.
True story.
They beat the US by eight points and had Manu Ginobili, Luis Scola and Andres Nocioni, who have all had good NBA careers. At the time you could argue Ginobili was one of the best players in world. Not to mention all of the rest of their players played pro ball in Europe.
Sure, if you put a bunch of pros together in a one-day, one-game scenario (like the Olympics) this will happen. If you look at the Wizards roster EVERY guy on there was All-Conference, All-American, All-Something in college. Pretty much all of them were 15-20 PPG scorers in college. Now they are pros and are more mature and bigger and physically stronger.
Anyone on the Wizards would start and probably be a star for Kentucky. It wouldn't even be close.