With the new year comes a new roster and new faces, the NBA has finally announced the latest roster for the USA national team for the 2010-2012 year. The team brings back 9 gold medalists from the Summer Games overseas in china and 12 new faces to bolster this new all star line up. The main attractions to this new team are the 9 gold medalists, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Dwayne Wade, Chris Bosh, Chris Paul, Dwight Howard, Carmello Anthony, Deron Williams and Carlos Boozer. They all return to the roster after having won the US their 1st gold medal since the dream team back in the Jordan era. How ever not returning to the team this year is Jason Kidd, Tayshaun Prince and Micheal Redd, though they will be missed their counterparts are just as good, the new blood on the team are, Kevin Durrant, Derick Rose, Chauncey Billups, Lamar Odom, Al Jefferson, Kevin Love, Russell Westbrook, Rudy Gay, Andre Iguodala, O.J. Mayo, Eric Gorden, Kendrick Perkins, LaMarcus Aldridge, Danny Granger, David Lee, Brook Lopez, and Gerald Wallace. From what I can see in this line up there is a good distribution of speed and length as well as strength, speculating on who the coach might be I can see various opportunities to utilize the young talent waiting to prove themselves on this roster. There is a nice mix of veterans and rookies to this team that will definitely make an entertaining game to watch. These players are known for their explosiveness on offense and for their individual set skills, look to Kobe Bryant and the returning gold medalists to be the leaders of the team and to be taking a bulk load of the playing time. Overall I think that we should applaud David Stern with the selection of the roster, all we need now is a coach to lead this team...rumors do suggest that coach K will be back but we have yet to hear a confirmation from him.
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