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They (Meaning Us) Don’t Know What To Do

By oddJoe ⋅ September 1, 2006 ⋅ Post a comment

Oh LeBron James, rarely do athletes utter such prescient words in the heat of competition. Even Matt Hasselbeck’s utterance of, “We’ll take the ball and we’ll score,” was just wishful bravado. But when The LeBrons came to the bench last night during the second quarter with Team USA leading Greece 33-21 and, according to the New York Times, told his teammates, “They don’t know what to do,” could he have known just how wrong he might be. As it turns out, it was the American team that didn’t know what to do against a suddenly-hot Greek team that dispatched Team USA from the semi-finals of the world basketball championship, 101-95. Yowza! Now the US will have to play through the qualifiers just to get into the 2008 Olympics, which at the rate they’re going is suddenly looking like a tough challenge.

And to Mia, a faithful reader (maybe? Maybe just a faithful user of Technorati) who wrote in to express her displeasure with our rude, baseless, and insensitive “attack” on the US flag football team that lost the world tournament in Germany last week, we totally agree that our “attack” was rude, baseless, and insensitive and we’ll never again write about flag football on these here Interweb pages. We also agree that NBA champion teams should no longer be referred to as “world champions” until a group of NBA players can bring home a world title.

Put ‘em on notice, Stephen!

Stephen Colbert puts things on notice for us