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Originally Posted by bookie
They're better for sure, but so is the rest of the world. They should be the favorites but they're still a go-against team. Pinnacle has US as -320 favorite to win the gold, wtih a +300 take back. They're like a great ACC team that has to get through a whole tournament of Georgetowns, Penns, and Princetons to win it all.
Plus there's a technical weak spot for the US team. If Dwight Howard gets into foul trouble there are bigs who can hurt the US.
Even assuming there's a one hundred percent chance that they get out of the five games of the qualifying round they still have three games to mess up. You'd have to think that they're opponents only had an eight percent chance in each of those three medal round games in order to price this as it is.
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They are taking Tyson Chandler as an alternate. I hope Carmelo gets cut so we can add some depth at the center position. Carmelo is bad for the team. No leadership.