Team USA Basketball Analysis: Grant Hill's Decisions
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00:00Browner, did you watch Team USA not cover 29 and a half points against South Sudan?
00:11Of course I did.
00:12You know I did.
00:13No.
00:14No.
00:15Again.
00:16Question.
00:17Before you get into your analysis of the basketball game that happened yesterday, why are you
00:20not mad about Joel Embiid playing zero minutes?
00:22Look, man, I'm going to tell y'all this.
00:25Keep the same energy, man.
00:26I'm going to keep it.
00:27I'm going to keep the same energy in this way.
00:29Grant Hale cannot be trusted to run any more teams.
00:34He basically talked Joel Embiid to playing, and this format does not work for Joel Embiid.
00:41He has not been very good on Team USA.
00:43How so?
00:44What format?
00:45And he appears to be a bad teammate.
00:47The way that the floor appears to be, like, too small for him.
00:52He cannot work within the space of an offense where he doesn't have the ball and everyone's
00:56working around him.
00:58He can't.
00:59He's not a good screen setter.
01:00He's not a good off-ball guy.
01:02So if he doesn't have the ball, he's pretty much doing nothing.
01:06And I mean nothing.
01:08With his size and his athleticism, he should be an Anthony Davis-level rim protector.
01:13He's not doing that either.
01:15Again, this isn't.
01:17He's not playing against people equal to his talent than when he did Joker wiped the floor
01:21with him.
01:22So I just, it's, he shouldn't be on the team.
01:26And when you watch him on the bench, when he knew he wasn't going to play, his energy
01:30on the bench was pathetic.
01:32Was he not handing out Gatorades like Tatum was the other day?
01:35He, listen, if you, if I'm telling you about the two people who didn't play, the spirit
01:40of Tatum, much better than the spirit of Embiid, Jason Tatum knew he wasn't going to play,
01:45but he was energetic.
01:46He was clapping for guys.
01:47He was cheering for guys doing stuff.
01:49Embiid was literally, everybody jumps off the bench because something happened, Embiid
01:53didn't even get up.
01:55I didn't even know Bam Adebayo was on the team until yesterday.
01:59Wow.
02:00He showed up yesterday.
02:01He showed out yesterday.
02:02It was a hidden.
02:03He, when did he learn how to shoot threes?
02:06He is great in this format, fast, agile, strong, and he plays hard.
02:13That's great.
02:14That crushed us out today.
02:15And by the way, see what a little Kevin Durant could do for you, for your lifestyle, man.
02:19Just put him in and they don't know what to do with that.
02:22They don't know what to do with that.
02:24There's no country in the world that can guard a six foot 10 shooter like Kevin Durant.
02:28Nobody.
02:29It's impossible.
02:30When Kevin Durant's healthy and you just give him the ball, good luck.
02:34And what if I told you Kevin Durant was the tallest person on the team?
02:38What about it?
02:39I mean, look, he's eight and 16, now he's like 7'1".
02:43Look at him stand next to Joel Embiid.
02:45Look at him make Bam Adebayo look tiny, height-wise, like he's the tallest guy on the team, no
02:52doubt.
02:53He's got pulling up shooting threes, has he doing mid-range?
02:56Like you can't guard that.
02:57You can't guard that.
02:58It's bad enough LeBron's coming at you full speed, then you got Steph Curry coming off
03:01screens and then, oh, and just to throw something in, here's Kevin Durant and Ezzy Edwards
03:06off the bench.
03:07Yikes.
03:08Yikes.
03:09Right.
03:10Yeah.
03:11Like I said, you guys freaked out about this exhibition against South Sudan.
03:14I'm like, dude, they're going to run through this thing like they do all the time.
03:18When they have the talent like they do right now, they're going to run through the entire
03:23tournament.
03:24They're going to win gold.
03:25It's going to be no problem.
03:26They'll probably face Serbia in the gold medal game or France or whoever, it don't matter.
03:28Right.
03:29They're going to win.
03:30They're going to win.
03:31But I just thought it was funny.
03:32Like first, like what is, like Steve Kerr just wants us to talk about this.
03:35Is that what he wants?
03:36Steve Kerr just wants us to create drama for him.
03:38The fact that, you know, like you couldn't have, like, like I didn't care about Tatum
03:42not playing, but now that you've got it, you did it to another guy, like, what are we doing?
03:47What are we doing?
03:49Like you got, you threw, you threw in Tatum in the starting lineup just to kind of shut
03:52everybody up.
03:53And I get matchups or matchups.
03:54It doesn't matter.
03:55You're team U.S.
03:56There is no matchup that's bad for you.
03:59Put it in B for minutes.
04:01Everybody should be able to play.
04:03Now it may not be the amount of minutes that they want.
04:06Everybody on this roster should be able to play.
04:09There's no player that is mismatched at all.
04:13And I mean at all.
04:14You could have given Jordan B four minutes a half.
04:18That way he satisfied Jason Tatum, just like in the first game.
04:22You could have given Jason Tatum four minutes in the first half, four minutes in the second
04:25half.
04:26Same thing for Tyrese Halliburton, who could shoot the ball, who could pick up the pace.
04:30It's just, again, Steve Kerr is a tricky one, man.
04:33Steve Kerr, you got to watch out for him.
04:35Tricky Steve, man.
04:36He doing Tricky Steve stuff.