Brandon Ingram's Struggles with Team USA: Falling Out of Favor?
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00:00 Brandon Ingram is an odd fit with Team USA or maybe a you know it's not the
00:10 FIBA setting but BI is a I got the ball I'll make the decision type of guy not
00:16 much of an off ball guy he can play defense but he's not an all-world
00:20 defender and it's why I thought there was a world that he might not be in this
00:24 team's starting lineup and while BI has been he has not been able to find his
00:29 footing and his comments were the following on his current state of things
00:33 in Team USA this is totally different than what I'm used to the team is
00:36 winning right now so I can't be selfish thinking about myself but it's a little
00:40 frustrating right now for me and I'm just trying to figure out ways I can be
00:44 effective Brandon Ingram has a points prop for this game against Greece Donnie
00:48 at nine and a half narrative approach BI breaks out Team USA make sure that
00:55 their guy gets his or maybe BI falls out of favor and the minutes continue to
01:00 drop for him in this matchup I think he falls out of favor but also what do you
01:04 actually expect here like he didn't just show up three days before the first game
01:08 be like man I didn't expect this type of offense we were running you have
01:12 training camps you have preliminary games and you have obviously FIBA World
01:15 Cup games here and also Team USA is playing really good team basketball all
01:19 the way through prelims and also into the World Cup where the games actually
01:23 start to matter in the knockout stage they haven't lost any of these so it's
01:27 kind of fun it was like hey man I don't know what I expected but I'm just not
01:30 fitting in here and Team USA probably go okay if you're not fitting in we're
01:33 still winning anyway we don't need you at this point I'm not saying it's gonna
01:36 work out in some bad blood but it is some interesting comments where you know
01:39 when you go to this type of an event 1992 right you take a look at the dream
01:44 team here was Karl Malone upset because he didn't get the ball every time down
01:47 the court from John Stockton no you have other fantastic players on your team you
01:52 work in where you fit in here and that's usually good enough it's kind of
01:55 interesting he's like look I'm not getting mine so I'm kind of unhappy but
01:58 since we're winning I'm not so if they lose let's just say to Greece here does
02:02 that mean Brandon Ingram is gonna take the podium back I told you give me the
02:04 ball this is ridiculous I you know it's one of those things the arrest the one
02:11 when he signed up for it you're right it's not like him being frustrated right
02:15 now but it's probably these are probably frustrations that have been there Brandon
02:18 Ingram probably felt - well I'm the best player of any of the guys here you might
02:23 not even be wrong necessarily about that but it's just it's not the way that this
02:27 team has been structured I think Anthony Edwards is in the spot that bi was
02:32 hoping he would be in but team USA in that game against New Zealand scored 99
02:36 points and saw six players hit double digits again nine and a half for the
02:41 number on bi to be you know - and by the way you can get for 10 plus points -
02:46 130 so save yourself a little bit of money there on that - 138 over under I
02:51 think this could be a spot where if these guys are as connective as the
02:55 reporting has suggested Donnie he'll get a couple of extra looks because we're
02:59 jumped off the page it's like I'm a bi struggling one for four field goal
03:03 attempts right take that up to eight shots for Brandon Ingram which is not a
03:08 ton by the way right and he should be able to get good looks against Greece
03:11 the other thing that stands out to me and I think you'll agree here I mean
03:14 where the finesse is props and what's going the family sports but you're doing
03:18 a great job a lot for us to sink our teeth into but I can't believe we're not
03:22 getting any finesse on tentacool po here so we'll follow along with the FIBA
03:27 World Cup here
03:30 (upbeat music)