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Tapseer · 08-17-2003, 09:50 AM

I'm just catching the last part of the 2nd qtr, but I didn't expect the game to be this competitive. Wait! That Arroyo kid just picked the pocket of the 96 million dollar man (Jason Kidd) in the open floor. Puerto Rico is playing hard out there...Nick Collison just got rejected! Whew! It's a game out there today. The game is close.

**Sean** · 08-17-2003, 09:54 AM

On which network are you watching it?

NBC?
ESPN?
TBS?
ABC?

Tapseer · 08-17-2003, 09:56 AM

My Bad...MSG. MSG. MSG. Unbelieveable! the score is 40 to 50 US. The 49th and 50th points coming courtesy of an Allen Iverson Alley-oop to Richard Jeffferson, but % seconds ago the Garden crowd was BOOING Team USA for sloppy play and CHEERING PUERTO RICO for their hard play...15,000 16,000 watching the game at the Garden

**Sean** · 08-17-2003, 09:58 AM

Damn. I don't see it anywhere on my satellite's main stations.

Looking forward to reading your thoughts/review.

Tapseer · 08-17-2003, 10:10 AM

You're not going to see it listed. MSG don't even have it listed. I have 2 MSG channels like everyone else. It's on the MSG channel the Mets ususally play on. MSG didn't change the on their TV guide. Just go to MSG. Team USA is up at the half right now 54-48. Only six points! All those MILLIONAIRES on the floor like Duncan, Vince Carter, Jason Kidd, Jermaine O'neal, Ray Allan, Elton Brand, Allen Iverson Tracy Mcgrady and so forth and we're only up by six points. You can also catch the game on the computer with NBA Ticket thru NBA.com. I only have heard of Arroyo on the Puerto Rican team, but they are doing their thing

**MJG** · 08-17-2003, 10:12 AM

Boo, I can't watch

I can't believe it's that close.

**Sean** · 08-17-2003, 10:19 AM

I used to get nbatv, but they re-arranged the channels and now I don't.

Thanks for the updates.

Tapseer · 08-17-2003, 10:34 AM

C'mon guys, you telling me you ain't got MSG? Well, with 3 minutes and change remaining in the 3rd qtr right now Team USA is up by 5...66-61. Allen Iverson just scored 68-61, but Puerto Rico keeps coming back and Team USA can't pull away. It's ugly out there for us. It's a good thing this is an exhibition game and not a real one.

djsunyc · 08-17-2003, 12:35 PM

i just got back from the game. i think they said they sold about 16000 tickets but there was probably more like 13000 people there - probably b/c of the blackout.

it's funny how arroyo just picked jkidd's pocket like that. pretty funny - he got some skills. the crowd was BRUTAL towards collison. true, he kind of got thrown into a tough situation being right out of college but he really has no business being on the team. which kind of leads me to this question - why isn't allan houston on the team? i know he just had some surgery but he wasn't even mentioned before when they were making the team. he is one of the better, if not the best, jump shooter in the league and he is the perfect role player for a team like this. outside of ray allen (who imo is quite streaky), we have no jump shooters. h20 would have been a perfect piece to the puzzle.

knickstorm · 08-17-2003, 01:59 PM

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Originally posted by Tapseer!
My Bad...MSG. MSG. MSG. Unbelieveable! the score is 40 to 50 US. The 49th and 50th points coming courtesy of an Allen Iverson Alley-oop to Richard Jeffferson, but % seconds ago the Garden crowd was BOOING Team USA for sloppy play and CHEERING PUERTO RICO for their hard play...15,000 16,000 watching the game at the Garden

i was at the game. We never booed team usa, we were booing collison cuz he came in got swatted, lost the ball, and threw it to nobody out of bounds in a span of like 2 minutes. haahha people behind us were just killing him. "we're glad we aint draft you. go back to the bench" then the 2nd half "hows the view from the bench nick" but...........we did cheer like crazy and on that one play where he knocked the ball off some puerto rico guy out of bounds, sarcastic cheers but still cheers. WE all yelled like crazy when he followed his shot. AHahah anyone who was there knows the fan patrol girls are HOT!!! Them dunking squad sucked at halftime, they missed like half of them. Best line i heard was " HEY NICK GET BACK ON THE BENCH AND GET DUNCAN SOME WATER"

Tapseer · 08-17-2003, 08:06 PM

Hey, Collison wasn't the only team USA player throwing the ball away. That's rough giving the rook the business like that. Ya'll should have given ALL of Team USA the business. Puerto Rico was competitive for 3 qtrs. They fell of dramatically in the 4th, but they were there. Shooting 58% from the line and turning the ball so much won't work against those teams that kicked our butt last year. If Team USA doesn't come to play, they are toast...simple as that. This not our Father's Dream Team...

knickstorm · 08-17-2003, 11:20 PM

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Originally posted by Tapseer!
Hey, Collison wasn't the only team USA player throwing the ball away. That's rough giving the rook the business like that. Ya'll should have given ALL of Team USA the business. Puerto Rico was competitive for 3 qtrs. They fell of dramatically in the 4th, but they were there. Shooting 58% from the line and turning the ball so much won't work against those teams that kicked our butt last year. If Team USA doesn't come to play, they are toast...simple as that. This not our Father's Dream Team...

i'd like to see you shoot ft's with hundreds of cameras going off, puerto rico was competetive cuz larry brown was fooling around with the lineups. If he kept the core group of players in, this would have been a blow out early. He kept bringing in bibby for kidd, collison for whoever, and jermaine o'neal has no business starting the way he's playing. Larry Brown was just tinkering around with his lineup.

The True Essence · 08-18-2003, 12:53 AM

i say start Brand, he played real tough and banged inside, you need those kind of guys, since the international game looks rough

And yeah Collison deserved it, 3 straight times down the floor he did something stupid. Then it was back to the bench. but he redeemed himself in the 4th quarter, saving the ball off some guy, making a guy miss a open layup on a break, and actually making a shot

Tapseer · 08-18-2003, 01:14 AM

Hey most of Team USA have been shooting FT's with the camera going off most of their basketball lives, so that excuse is a copout. You have hundreds of millions of dollars in salary out there, those guys can at least do better than 58% from the foul line. Granted, teams around the world are getting better and maybe the skill level between us and them is getting closer. But, remember Team USA didn't even medal last year prompting this year's team having to be is this qualifying tournament going now. Last year, just our regular NBA players wasn't good enough to medal. Now we have an All-Star NBA team just to get us to qualify for the Olympics. Beating Puerto Rico by 27 would have been impressive if we were kicking their arses all day, but it wasn't like that. And it's just Puerto Rico. Team USA will have to be sharper when playing the Europeans next year otherwise we'll be walking with egg on our face again. I couldn't believe we didn't medal last year. It was such a shock to ME at least that TEAM USA got beat last year. It bothered me alot...

superknickfan · 08-18-2003, 01:34 AM

i missed the game but i think as time goes on they will get better with playing together more

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