Team USA has again earned world’s respect

pegs · Aug 19, 2008

BEIJING – Since the voice on the telephone from Milan left the comfort of a college job 37 years ago, this American expatriate has been telling the hard truths on the rise and fall of United States basketball in the global community. Dan Peterson packed his bags at the University of Delaware for surreal success over the next 14 years in the Italian Pro League – 11 Final Fours, nine championship series and four titles – and stayed forever fearless of the consequences that come with offending the untouchables of the U.S. basketball elite.
Even so, Peterson had come to be so enthusiastic over Team USA director Jerry Colangelo’s vision about constructing a true national program. Peterson had outlined a similar structure in 1976 in an article for a coaching magazine, insisting that the United States would eventually fall behind without a system.
Nevertheless, Peterson, 72, had come to believe that Mike Krzyzewski was the perfect coach for the 2008 Olympics. And then that hope was shaken when a Hall of Fame coach walked into the news conference after a loss to Greece at the 2006 World Championships and sounded like someone out of CYO ball, straight out of the losing cause of American arrogance.
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Team USA has again earned world’s respect - Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports

Sweet article, especially the end.

Who am I kidding? I just wanted to post this part:

“What was it that the Japanese officer said after Pearl Harbor?” Russia coach David Blatt asked. “ ‘I think we just awoke the sleeping giant’? Well, that’s what Europe has done with the United States. And now, they’re all about to go under afoot of the U.S. again.”
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