oh lord oh dear lord

team U.S.A. lost in basketball today to Greece which has a fully stocked roster of zero NBA players; a quick breakdown of the story reveals that the U.S. lost because they couldn't shoot free throws (oh God) and they couldn't defend the . . .wait for it wait for it . . . the pick and roll!! (I just threw up in my mouth)

You know the pick and roll which they teach to teach third graders, and which was a staple of every middle school game that was played from the years (1901-until the year SportsCenter became popular and started showing dunk only highlights) - that pick and roll; Greece finding out the U.S. was susceptible to the P&R is the equivalent of finding one of those hidden coin rooms in Super Mario 3 - it soon turns into a guilt ridden orgy but you have to keep going back to it even if it offends your sense of decency

so in preparation of the Olympic Qualifying tournament that team U.S.A. will now have to slog through next year I have included this handy foreign website explaining the play




these guys don't look like they've ever seen the Budweiser Ultimate Highlight on SportsCenter but yet somehow the understand the basic tenets of basketball?? How!!



I'm just guessing here but I bet the And1 MixTape Tour doesn't put a lot of emphasis on fundamentals of basketball which help you avoid repeated humiliation in international competitions but that's just me



Note the famous "American-Style" defense played by the man in orange just above the free-throw line