Kevin Love - Miami Ground Machine

[Cassity14]

Are folks actually expecting him to play in Japan? Id be shocked if he gets off the bench much, at all. Bam and Draymond will see the bulk of the "big" minutes, and I anticipate the team going small and fast a large chunk of the time. If he can get some networking and "rescue me" talk from other dudes, I'd be happy, but I don't think his play is gonna help him get moved.

I think he'll see quite a bit of burn against teams with bigger guys.

Draymond isn't the defensive rebounder that Love is, and neither Green nor Adebayo are the outside shooter that Love is. Team USA generally gets as many shooters as possible on the court.

 

[cabs]

I just hope he doesn’t play hard because he doesn’t for us.

 

[Athaloc]

Furious Jalen Rose Blasts Kevin Love's Inclusion In Team USA, Alleges Racial Discrimination

The United States’ contingency for the upcoming summer Olympics looks like another squad that’s set to bring home the gold medal. In spite of a number of notable exclusions, Team USA is as strong as always. If you ask ESPN analyst Jalen Rose, however, he has taken exception with the addition of...

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[Green Lantern]

People act like he hasn't been doing that for 2 years.

He's practically begged to be in Portland for a while now. Don't think that Channing Frye made up trade scenarios on Twitter to get Love to Portland because he was bored.

I have supported Love for years but it's time he's traded.

 

[avs2000]

Everything is racism. Racism is everything. Love wouldn’t be on the team if black players like Chris Paul and Jarrett Allen and others like LBJ, Davis and most other superstars turned it down

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

Furious Jalen Rose Blasts Kevin Love's Inclusion In Team USA, Alleges Racial Discrimination

The United States’ contingency for the upcoming summer Olympics looks like another squad that’s set to bring home the gold medal. In spite of a number of notable exclusions, Team USA is as strong as always. If you ask ESPN analyst Jalen Rose, however, he has taken exception with the addition of...

cavsnation.com

Rose is an utter jackass. He not only said that Love shouldn't be on the team, but he was specific about who should have gotten his place instead - Deandre Ayton. Says it right here at 17:30 (ETA: the time seems to vary about a minute from that each time I clicked on it, so it would be somewhere around 17:30) of that interview:


But Ayton wasn't even on the U.S. National Team from which the Olympic Team is drawn. And why not? Probably because Deandre Ayton isn't even a U.S. citizen, and isn't eligible to play on the U.S. Olympic team.

Suns' Deandre Ayton ideal USA fit in 2024 Olympics – if he became U.S. citizen and FIBA makes exception?

Could Deandre Ayton follow Hakeem Olajuwon's path for the 2024 Paris Games?

www.azcentral.com

Rose is a P.O.S.

 

[2 For The Brew]

Kevin Love is one of only three players on the team who have been to the Olympics along with Durant and Draymond. I think that was a factor in his favor as well.

 

[foucault87]

Love should be much better in the slower and spacier intl game anyway. Hes filling the tall guy who rebounds role that booz had in 08.

Now if Cody Zeller had a spot, I'd agree with Jalen rose

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

Love should be much better in the slower and spacier intl game anyway. Hes filling the tall guy who rebounds role that booz had in 08.

Now if Cody Zeller had a spot, I'd agree with Jalen rose

Deandre Ayton still couldn't be named to the U.S. Olympic team as Rose had argued. His entire point is D.O.A., and all he did was expose his own bias and ignorance by arguing to the contrary.

 

[KevinLoveFan]

Others on social media have pointed out that the 2016 team was all Black. Rose sometimes says dumb things. I remember about a decade ago when he said Grant Hill was an Uncle Tom.

 

[The Human Q-Tip]

Others on social media have pointed out that the 2016 team was all Black. Rose sometimes says dumb things. I remember about a decade ago when he said Grant Hill was an Uncle Tom.

Having a bad opinion is one thing -- you can at least argue opinion. But Rose is just wildly off here in terms of basic facts.

When I heard what Rose said initially, I didn't know he wasn't a U.S. citizen, but the outside shooting argument did seem legit to me. Still, I wondered who else other than Ayton was on the much larger U.S. National team list for possible selection to the Olympic team. So I looked that up, and that's when I saw that Ayton wasn't even on the 57 player U.S. National Team list :

USA Basketball Announces 57 Finalists for U.S. Olympic Men’s Team

Adding 15 players to 42 previously selected USA Basketball Men’s National Team finalists, 57 athletes were announced by USA Basketball as finalists for the U.S. Olympic Men’s Basketball Team

www.usab.com

That kind of surprised me, but I'm thinking that maybe Ayton just didn't want to play on the Olympic team, so I googled "Deandre Ayton Olympics" and the very first article listed was about the one I linked previously about Ayton possibly being a candidate for the 2024 Olympic team if he got his U.S. citizenship:

Suns' Deandre Ayton ideal USA fit in 2024 Olympics – if he became U.S. citizen and FIBA makes exception?

Could Deandre Ayton follow Hakeem Olajuwon's path for the 2024 Paris Games?

www.azcentral.com

So here's the thing -- it's not even that Rose didn't know Ayton was a U.S. Citizen. It's that he clearly never even checked to see if Ayton asked to be on the U.S. Olympic team by submitting his name for the U.S. National Team. He simply leapt -- without even the most cursory investigation or analysis -- to the conclusion that it was racism. I can't even fathom the mindset of someone who doesn't do even the most cursory check before stating such an inflammatory opinion publicly.

The odd thing is that I've yet to see a single news story that talks about Rose's comment mention that Ayton isn't a U.S. citizen, and so isn't eligible for the U.S. Olympic team. They just toss Rose's comment out there like it is an interesting discussion point without doing the slightest fact checking of their own. What does that say about the state of sports journalism period?

 

[2 For The Brew]

Fab Five was overrated, Jalen Rose was overrated as a player, and he’s not exactly Grantland Rice. Am I supposed to be impressed that he’s a Michigan Man?

ESPN has being going downhill for years. Same with that school up north.

 

[Lee]

Fab Five was overrated, Jalen Rose was overrated as a player, and he’s not exactly Grantland Rice. Am I supposed to be impressed that he’s a Michigan Man?

ESPN has being going downhill for years. Same with that school up north.

Love was an odd choice, not sure racism, but atleast a dozen black players are better fits than 2021 Love. Ayton was just one of them.

The Fab 5 made 2 NCAA finals with a team of all freshman starters then sophemore starters it was impressive,

Rose played 13 years, was 6'8 could play the 1-3, could shoot, drive and pass. Scored over 14 points a game for his career, 4 ast and 3 rebs. Good shooting numbers for his time. Scored over 20 points a game in several years even.

He was a horrible defender though because he put no effort on that end. In fact, Rose was the main scorer for Kobe's 81 point game, lol

Rose was a good player, not a HOFer by any means, but Webber and Howard can both make it, so the fab 5 was legit for sure.

 

[KevinLoveFan]

Having a bad opinion is one thing -- you can at least argue opinion. But Rose is just wildly off here in terms of basic facts.

When I heard what Rose said initially, I didn't know he wasn't a U.S. citizen, but the outside shooting argument did seem legit to me. Still, I wondered who else other than Ayton was on the much larger U.S. National team list for possible selection to the Olympic team. So I looked that up, and that's when I saw that Ayton wasn't even on the 57 player U.S. National Team list :

USA Basketball Announces 57 Finalists for U.S. Olympic Men’s Team

Adding 15 players to 42 previously selected USA Basketball Men’s National Team finalists, 57 athletes were announced by USA Basketball as finalists for the U.S. Olympic Men’s Basketball Team

www.usab.com

That kind of surprised me, but I'm thinking that maybe Ayton just didn't want to play on the Olympic team, so I googled "Deandre Ayton Olympics" and the very first article listed was about the one I linked previously about Ayton possibly being a candidate for the 2024 Olympic team if he got his U.S. citizenship:

Suns' Deandre Ayton ideal USA fit in 2024 Olympics – if he became U.S. citizen and FIBA makes exception?

Could Deandre Ayton follow Hakeem Olajuwon's path for the 2024 Paris Games?

www.azcentral.com

So here's the thing -- it's not even that Rose didn't know Ayton was a U.S. Citizen. It's that he clearly never even checked to see if Ayton asked to be on the U.S. Olympic team by submitting his name for the U.S. National Team. He simply leapt -- without even the most cursory investigation or analysis -- to the conclusion that it was racism. I can't even fathom the mindset of someone who doesn't do even the most cursory check before stating such an inflammatory opinion publicly.

The odd thing is that I've yet to see a single news story that talks about Rose's comment mention that Ayton isn't a U.S. citizen, and so isn't eligible for the U.S. Olympic team. They just toss Rose's comment out there like it is an interesting discussion point without doing the slightest fact checking of their own. What does that say about the state of sports journalism period?

One of the things that my English professors hammered home was checking sources for accuracy. The fact that Rose, and so many others, are unaware of facts like the 2016 team being all Black, and that Ayton isn't even a US citizen, show that people would still rather voice opinions than do careful research.

 

[avs2000]

One of the things that my English professors hammered home was checking sources for accuracy. The fact that Rose, and so many others, are unaware of facts like the 2016 team being all Black, and that Ayton isn't even a US citizen, show that people would still rather voice opinions than do careful research.

You can argue whether love should on the team but race was not a factor
The only people who would bring race into this are racists