That silly Greece

Want to know why our national team has been getting its ass handed to it in the past few years? Watch this clip from Greece’s victory at Eurobasket:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhlSipeAx4E

Listen to the Greek announcers, watch the Greek players, take a look at the Greek fans, and watch how devastated the Slovenian team is after the game. And this is just the quarterfinal game of the European championships, much less the World Championships or the Olympics.

Would you get that excited about the US team pulling off a comeback like that? I sure wouldn’t. At some point, when our basketball players were supposed to get crazy about playing for our country, they just didn’t.

This isn’t an indictment of our national team, just an observation: we can talk all we want about size and shooters and international rules, but at the end of the day we just don’t want it as bad.