Nah, they'd have lost that one too. The NBA was exposed in the Olympics as a bunch of spoiled, whining, overpaid players with mediocre skills who can't play fundamentally sound basketball to save their lives. The pro game has devolved into a hip hop, dunk-till-you-drop, streetball game that hardly resembles what I remember watching in the 60s,70s and 80s.
Frankly, I don't know why anybody watches; it's boring when compared to the game as it used to be played. I quit watching ten years ago.
The 70s? LOL whe nthe league almost folded because thuggery and cokeheads had taken it over?
You don't know squat about basketball and obviously didn't watch Phoenix and LA tonight or Utah-Miami.
The NBA wasn't exposed in the Olympics. The players were younger, Larry Brown refused to play the best guys for the style they needed to play and the way Duncan was officiated was a joke.
You don't even know that scouting, defense, more controlled offensive sets and the like are responsible for the decrease in scoring. Defense and athletes are just better now.