If you keep up with basketball outside the USA, you know that there have been some competitions going on. Tournaments on several continents to determine who will complete in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio Di Janiero, Brazil.
The USA have no need to participate in said tournaments because they won the World Cup last year. So they’ve locked in their place already. Which leaves Team USA President Jerry Colangelo to scout out the competition. And boy does the competition look good. It’s very clear that once we reach 2020, the USA will have some legitimate competition. And Colangelo can see that forming as we speak.
“Well, first of all, there’s a wave — just like the NBA — there’s a continual wave of new young players. Generally speaking, that’s true internationally also,” Team USA chairman Jerry Colangelo said. “I think without question, you’d have to say Spain, if they get their players to perform and are healthy, despite the fact they are aging, they’re very formidable.
“Serbia is considered a very strong international team coming into this Olympic year. I think France is another team, age aside, there’s a lot of talent, and a big sleeper in the whole mix is Canada. Canada has some extraordinary, very good, fine young players and they’re going to be heard from. If it’s not ’16, it will be ’20.”
Canada look scary, they’re so young which just exacerbates the potential.
In the upcoming Olympics, there are a mixture of youth (Canada, Serbia etc.) and experience. (Spain, Argentina, France etc.) Now I’ll probably stick with the USA as favourites for the upcoming Olympics, but come 2020, it can be a toss up for sure.
