Meet Your Olympic Basketball Team

Well the U.S. Basketball team announced the squad that it will be taking to Beijing this summer for the Olympics, and looking at the roster, if this team doesn't manage to win the gold medal, they shouldn't be allowed back into the country.

Look at this roster.

• Kobe Bryant
• LeBron James
• Dwyane Wade
• Carmelo Anthony
• Chris Paul
• Dwight Howard
• Deron Williams
  
• Tayshaun Prince
• Jason Kidd
• Chris Bosh
• Carlos Boozer
• Michael Redd

I would like to see one more big on the roster (feel free to replace Kidd, the team already has four guys capable of handling the ball), but with the overall talent it probably won't matter much. I realize that the teams the U.S. will be playing against in China keep getting better, and that they've beaten us before, but there's no excuse for this team to lose.

I don't want to hear about how the other countries teams have played together longer, or about the different rules in FIBA, there is just too much talent on this team for anything but a gold medal to be the objective.