Terreno Deportivo Question of Tempo Will Be a Running Theme for Team USA in Olympics
On SI.COM, Chris Mannix writes “USA Basketball has gone to great lengths to address those problems. It added a sharpshooter/zone buster in Michael Redd. It put together arguably its most athletic team ever and spent extra time in practices working on pick-and-roll defense. Coach Mike Krzyzewski went as far as to solicit advice from his players (particularly point guards Jason Kidd, Deron Williams and Chris Paul) on how they prefer to defend it. But there is a new threat looming, one that will likely be pointed to should this group come up short in its quest to reclaim Olympic gold. Tempo. The United States likes to push it, and the rest of the world is doing everything within its power to slow it down.?
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