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More Cowbell: My take on the 22

Wednesday, March 1, 2006

I had to write something about these USA Basketball tryouts. You might remember my opus about the "Nightmare Team" before its disastrous meltdown in the 2004 Olympics, with the premise being that we needed to stop slapping together All-Star teams and patch together a real hoops team. And it's an interesting column to reread, for two reasons: 1. That's exactly what they decided to do with this tryout process. 2. After the 18 months that have passed, it's much easier to see why that USA team far ...

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