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GP is an old blogger-friend who’s been writing mostly about World War II. You should visit his blog if you want to learn more about common soldier stuff during the great war. Here, he gives us a different side of the soldier, especially the old fun-loving, irreverent vets.
Transition to Euro-ball. Watch the Euro League play. Play team defense. Help defense. Think team. That is the only way we can compete in the much bigger, bulkier, badder international basketball community.
Unbelievable!!! Team Philippines took arguably the most coveted and the most prestigious medal of all in the ongoing 19th Asian Games in China – the
Basketball is a team game. It is not a game of individual talents, but of how these individual talents contribute to a whole. Germany’s ascension as basketball’s world champions is a clear lesson in team chemistry, cohesion, discipline and more. Indeed, it is a most beautiful team game.
I foresee a tactical battle with both teams opting to beef up on the defense, and with both trying to occasionally outsprint the other on the offensive transition. This will be a chess match of Euro coaches, demonstrating more defense-oriented systems may not be as exciting as the glitz and glam of the American playing style, but more like a slow wrestling pin-down where brute force and proper technique holds sway.
The two mano-a-mano duels unfold before us fans tonight. We are down to the last 4, with 2 American and 2 European teams going head-to-head. Watch the wily SGA and the Canadian crew do battle against Serbia’s merry band of Bogdan Bogdanovich and his brothers. Witness the high-flying, star-studded team of the US of A as they trade fireballs with Germany’s Dennis Schroder and his cohorts. We know who has the best talents. But in a team game like basketball, it may not just be about talent, but of strategy, of coaching, of discipline and the unselfish resolve to put the team interest above individual honors.
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