Assessing Team USA's Top Rivals in International Play

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00:00Which one of these teams do you think the USA stack team that they have should be worried

00:10about or is it a lot of them?

00:12Well, it's multiple.

00:14I mean, obviously you look at the U.S. roster here and to me, number one, I think you have

00:20to look at Canada.

00:21Folks, the reason why odds aren't out for Canada at Bed and Gem is they're still trying

00:26to finalize the roster here because we don't know what's going on with Andrew Wiggins.

00:31Story out is that supposedly Golden State is holding out, doesn't want Wiggins to play

00:38for Canada because they're trying to move him.

00:41And I guess the concern could be if he gets hurt, then you can't move him.

00:45So that is why you're looking at it.

00:47But if Canada has their full roster with Alexander Walker, with R.J.

00:53Barrett, with Dylan Books, with Lou Dort, with Zach Edie, with Melvin Egan, with SGA,

00:59with Jamal Murray, with Andrew Nembour, with Kelly Olenek, Dwight Powell, and Andrew Wiggins,

01:04I think they become the biggest threat to the United States as an overall team.

01:10When you look at France, folks, simply put, it's a combination of the experience of a

01:16team that always plays together with some of the new guys, right?

01:20Like Patoum, a new guy in Koulibaly into the fold, obviously Evan Fournier, right?

01:25Rudy Gobert has been playing with them for years, Frank Milikina.

01:28But now you add guys like Webanyama and Koulibaly to the roster, and you have a team that has

01:34NBA guys, and has size in Rudy, and folks, I want people to understand, Rudy Gobert in

01:40Olympics is different than Rudy Gobert in the States, right?

01:44They actually throw the ball inside to him.

01:46They give him post touches.

01:48So I think that becomes interesting.