Chuck Klosterman offers an intriguing suggestion for how to finally win (or at least not feel bad about not winning) international tournaments:
Use those players who are now forced into college for a year (you can't jump straight to the NBA from high school now) to assemble a cohesive, disciplined team whose only worry is to succeed in international tournaments so they can get the recognition they would otherwise be getting in college while they're busy not being students.
I do kind of like this idea, especially Klosterman's idea that these kids could just go around the country—or the world—barnstorming. I would hope that it would encourage people to see how little basketball (or other sports) actually has to do with college or the academy—it's a public relations machine, grafted onto the student body.
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