>We picked up on some of the ideas being kicked around on the bulletin board
and incorporated some names into our guessing games list for the Olympic team
members.
We are to a certain extent building with the notion that Greg Oden will be
part of the team. He has the potential to change the game. The last
guy to really do that was Michael Jordan.
Oden can defend an enormous amount of space by himself, being essentially a
one man zone in the lane. That would allow for pitbull perimeter defense
and would really change the formula not just for the Americans but for the rest
as well, because the normal thing is to either dribble penetrate or pass around
for an open three. If you can't penetrate, you have no choice but to play
for the three. And if you have Tayshaun Prince, Shane Battier, Ron Artest
and Kobe Bryant dogging your every step, the threes aren't so easy either.
| Let The Guessing Game Begin! | |||
| Yes | Maybe | No | Hell No |
| Shane Battier | Alan Iverson | Shaquille O' Neal | Carmelo Anthony |
| LeBron James | Gerald Green | Kris Humphries | Bonzi Wells |
| Kobe Bryant | Dwight Howard | Rashad McCants | Eddie Griffin |
| Greg Oden | Bobby Jackson | Kwame Brown | Josh Smith |
| Tayshaun Prince | Antwan Jamison | Tyson Chandler | |
| Wally Szczerbiak | Kyle Korver | Brendan Haywood | |
| Dwyane Wade | Shaun Livingston | ||
| Ben Wallace | Elton Brand | ||
| Deron Williams | Corey Maggette | ||
| Luke Walton | Carlos Boozer | ||
| Emeka Okafor | Nate Robinson | ||
| Gilbert Arenas | Morris Peterson | ||
| Salim Stoudamire | Paul Pierce | ||
| Amare Stoudemire | Baron Davis | ||
| Ben Gordon | Ron Artest | ||
| Josh Howard | Steve Blake | ||
| Julius Hodge | Nick Collison | ||
| Andre Miller | Danny Granger | ||
| Chauncey Billups | Ray Allen | ||
| Mike Bibby | Michael Redd | ||
| Tim Duncan | Richard Hamilton | ||
| Jarrett Jack | |||
| Chris Paul | |||