The USA Select Team was announced a short time ago. It includes:
Kelsey Bone
Kahleah Copper
Stefanie Dolson
Natasha Howard
Jewell Loyd
Tiffany Mitchell
Aerial Powers
Sugar Rodgers
Odyssey Sims
Kiah Stokes
Elizabeth Williams
Here's the explanation:
The USA Select Team, comprised of young USA National Team members and future USA National Team hopefuls, will train alongside the 2016 USA Women’s National Team July 23-24 in Los Angeles before tipping-off the USA Basketball Showcase presented by Verizon in an exhibition game July 25 at the University of Southern California’s Galen Center.
Questions:
Why only 11?
Why leave out Skylar Diggins?
Why leave out Chiney Ogwumike?
I still don't understand USA Basketball.
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Answers: Because Skylar is not healthy. Because Chiney is not healthy. Because they've got 2 days of practice and you can't have a giant pool of people or no one gets enough.
I can't buy that because those two are arguably the future of Olympic Teams. Even if they're not 100 percent right now, they can and should "train alongside Team USA" and get it all down so that the hand off - as the majority of this year's team will retire before 2020 - is smooth.
And for that matter, bring aboard Nneka Ogwumike, since you somehow left her off the Olympic team.
Unbelievable! I can only laugh but it's not funny....
Do we know that players like Skylar and Chiney didn't decline invites to the Select team?
Common courtesy to show the invited first, then those who decline after, imho! Saves controversy!
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