Not just beaten, but humiliated. Hung out to dry. And by Puerto Rico, no less.
As the old adage goes, "a champion team will beat a team of champions any day". Duncan, Iverson, James and Anthony are all outstanding players but as a group, they look like they've just been thrown together for a pickup game. Which is basically what has happened.
Jordan and Bird's team in '92 never broke a sweat and nobody got within 25 points of them. In 12 years we've come to this. Unthinkable back then but it goes to show how the mighty and seemingly invincible can fall.
A metaphor for the US as a country, to ponder on.
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As the old adage goes, "a champion team will beat a team of champions any day". Duncan, Iverson, James and Anthony are all outstanding players but as a group, they look like they've just been thrown together for a pickup game. Which is basically what has happened.
Jordan and Bird's team in '92 never broke a sweat and nobody got within 25 points of them. In 12 years we've come to this. Unthinkable back then but it goes to show how the mighty and seemingly invincible can fall.
A metaphor for the US as a country, to ponder on. "
I believe your metaphor suggestion to be right on. We've
become a nation of blowhards now living vicariously and
parasitically off the real accomplishments of a very few. Whether it's a ball game, a business deal or the Olympics, it's packaged and hyped to sell the digestible, profitable fluff and this country, by and large, has grown too fat and too lazy to care about what's really beneath it all.