Anonymous
Years ago

Olympic Allstar 5?

Who do you think should be in the Olympic allstar 5 if it was named?

I'd say:

Kirilenko
Durant
Lebron
Pau Gasol
Manu

Mick
Years ago

Don't think I can argue with that five. No PG though.

You could make the case for Patty due to that buzzer beater and the tournament high in points in a single game, but he didn't play the all-round game very well, and who would he unseat in the "five"?

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Anonymous
Years ago

TOP 5 Points:
Mills (Aus) 21.2
Durant (US) 19.5
Manu (Arg) 19.4
Pau (Esp) 19.1
Scola (Arg) 18

TOP 5 Rebounds:
Yi (Chn) 10.2
Mejri (Tun) 10
Diogu (Ngr) 9
Romdhane (Tun) 8.6
Nene (Bra) 8

TOP 5 Assists:
Prigioni (Arg) 6.5
Huertas (Bra) 6
Shved (Rus) 5.9
Lebron (US) 5.6
Jasikevicius (Ltu) 5.3

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Isaac
Years ago

Don't need to turn to the buzzer beater - you could make the case for Patty for leading all scorers with 21.2 PPG. Closest was Durant's 19.5 PPG.

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Mick
Years ago

He shot the ball at a decent enough clip too, overall.

Would you take him over Manu or Durant though?

What's the criteria here, is it positional or just the top 5 players...

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Anonymous
Years ago

Shved too?

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KET
Years ago

I'd probably just name the Team USA lineup

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Charon 88
Years ago

I woulnt even have Party as Australias best player. Ingles had a better overall influence on our results.

Points aren't a very good indicator because of team strengths.

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Isaac
Years ago

Charon, I would too favour Ingles. Just saying that if you're looking for reasons to put Patty up, leading the tournament in scoring is worth mentioning over a clutch shot.

I definitely wouldn't name five players from the US team. Putting two in there is pretty reasonable.

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paul
Years ago

I would pick a 10, because there is so much talent, or maybe just call it my first and second team!

P Gasol
L James
K Durant
M Ginobili
M Huertas

L Scola
A Kirilenko
C Anthony
V Fridzon
L Barbosa

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Anonymous
Years ago

Fridzon????

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paul
Years ago

Yeah, you know, the second best player on the bronze medal team who was excellent at both ends of the court and one them two games off his own hand.

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Anonymous
Years ago

fridzon better than kirilenko and shved?

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paul
Years ago

Did I say he was better than Kirilenko? He was Russia's best player and Fridzon was second, comfortably.

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Ingles13
Years ago

ITT: people that didn't watch Russia play

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Anonymous
Years ago

Shved was easily Russia's 2nd best player but he got ridden by the coach A LOT and consequently say on the bench too much in the prelim games. Came up huge when it counted.

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22z
Years ago

Some of you guys were on the money with your Olympic first team. ESPN released their top ten players

http://espn.go.com/blog/truehoop/post/_/id/49130/the-all-olympics-team

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Anonymous
Years ago

No Fridzon? Not even an honorable mention! Ha

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Mick
Years ago

Love it how Arnovitz refers to Ingles as,

"the Australian big man"

Obviously didn't watch him play once. What a knob.

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paul
Years ago

Shved had an awesome last game, he is very capable of that, but he got ridden by the coach (who loves him) for a reason.

He is susceptible to pressure (understandable given he's playing out of position), often makes poor decisions, has a very inconsistent shot which he goes to too often, and is well below average at the defensive end.

He is the sort of guy you have to take the good with the bad, which is fine in a regular season, but in an Olympics tournament he is only valuable on the days when he is firing offensively. Blatt managed that well.

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