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From the column by Gregg Easterbrook "Tuesday Morning Quarterback" on ESPN.com -Page2 this week.

"Of course, NBA players are at a disadvantage in international games: Traveling is not legal, for example. The larger key makes it harder to barrel down the lane out of control until you slam into someone and draw the foul. Differences in rules and styles cause coordinated offensive plays to be essential in international games, and most NBA stars refuse to do anything but go one-on-one; many haven't run a back-pick since high school."

"Greece won because it had no NBA players on its roster! As Michael Wilbon of the Washington Post noted, while the Greek players showed teamwork and executed complex plays, the NBA guys on the U.S. side spent the contest strutting and pointing at themselves. The culture of shoe contracts and strut-oriented AAU basketball is ruining the American version of the sport, Wilbon asserted; TMQ cries, "Here here!" "

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=easterbrook/060905

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