Before the U.S. Olympic men's basketball team boarded its plane for Athens, it should have made a pit stop at the Duke University campus.
One scrimmage in front of the Blue Devil fans would have cheers of Fun-Da-Men-Tals ringing from the rafters of Krzyzewski court.
While the men's basketball team does have the best athletes in the Olympics, its players are at the bottom of the totem pole in fundamentals and effort. Foreign countries are no longer fearful of the "Dream Team," nor should they be. Who can be scared of a team that has only one player who shot over 40 percent from beyond 15 feet last year, which, by the way, was the team's center, Tim Duncan.
Don't get me wrong, I'm pulling for the men's team to win a gold medal, but until the U.S. stops trying to make a poster boy out of some guy from Angola, and starts making mid-range jumpers, they will be headed home empty handed.
