Why Did Team USA Go With Derrick White Over Jaylen Brown? | 7/11/24

Why Did Team USA Go With Derrick White Over Jaylen Brown? | 7/11/24

Team USA in hoops beat Canada 8672 I don’t take anything from this Anthony Edwards look good I I don’t take anything from it this is where you’re trying to figure out your roster now you might send in five guys like it’s it’s a full team substitution but I’m I’m sort of watching to see and this is the tricky part when you have these kind of teams you’re trying to get a team not a team of all stars and that is the big storyline with the Olympic team is Jaylen Brown is not on the Olympic team this after Kawhi Leonard said you know what let me sit this out so Derek white of the Celtics gets the call and Grant Hill is running the show with the Olympic team and he talked about why he brought in Derek white on the Olympic team one of the many things that I really love about Derek and particularly with this team is I don’t feel like his role changes much with our team from what he does with the Celtics he plays alongside two incredibly great young players uh Jaylen Brown and Jason Tatum and um you know this setting is hard you know you’re the center of your your universe and now you have to establish a role and it might be different than what you have to do with your team and so have someone who can come in and and play off of guys you know be complimentary to to to some others but then also stand out okay he’s assembling a team not all stars but a team but if you said hey Jason Tatum is going to be on the team okay uh Drew holiday okay good two-way player playing for the Celtics but if you said Derek White’s going to get the call instead of Jaylen Brown now all of a sudden you got my attention and certainly got Jaylen Brown’s attention because he sent out cryptic messages emojis yesterday like is this about Nike because jayen Brown has been critical about Nike and Nike of course is the uh the big sponsor the apparel for the Olympic team well Grant Hill was saying look you got to have players who fit roles on there it’s not just now they’re going to win the gold medal I think everybody can agree they’re the prohibited favor to win the gold medal does it matter well you’re still getting a team out there and if you said to me who can I add who can add you know to what we need but also not subtract to what we have I understand Derek white Derek white is very versatile really good Defender he can shoot the three doesn’t lack confidence plays hard and if you put him on the bench and he doesn’t play you’re probably not going to hear anything Jaylen Brown I’m the Eastern Conference MVP uh I could have won the finals MVP why am I not playing or what did he win the finals MVP he did oh okay why did I think Jason Tatum did out of habit he won the Eastern Conference Finals MVP checking yeah I thought Jason Tatum won it but I would have given it to Jaylen Brown so Tatum won the Larry Bird trophy I think I think looking it up I know that Jaylen Brown won Eastern Conference Finals MVP right but then I thought Jason Tatum NBA Finals MVP Jaylen Brown oh Boston Celtics congratulations so he won both and then they cut right to Jason Tatum who was like I don’t know kind of awkward but then like no no no it’s good it’s good I’m happy that they did so here he is well decorated then and I think you’re probably looking at this team going if Jaylen Brown doesn’t play how’s he going to react to this if Derek white doesn’t play we know how he’s going to react he’ll be fine he’s on the Olympic team great experience Jaylen Brown’s probably saying I’m up there in the conversation of best player in the world I should be playing I I’m a star and I think that probably factored in do I think Nike the sponsorship aspect probably not but I mean nothing is out of the realm of possibility here with what he thinks I don’t know if there’s more to the story feels like there feels like there’s a little bit more to the story I just don’t know what direction to go in on this but we did call for Grant Hill we did call for Jaylen Brown uh yes Marvin the only reason why I’m kind of going against you guys is because they’ve had guys like taan Prince Kellin Johnson you don’t know who Kellin Johnson is but he was on the Olympic team in 2021 so there’s guys where like you’re good enough to be on this team but you won’t moan and cry if you don’t play Michael red taan Prince I said taan but those guys like you’re Andre Iguodala you’re happy to be on those teams they’re good guys if they can get into the game but if not they’ll be all right because if you’re Jaylen Brown why am I not playing yeah I mean It’s tricky because Jaylen Brown’s gonna go look at the year I just had and am I better than Anthony Davis well in his mind he thinks he is am I more reliable he probably thinks he is I get it I get his side of this but I also have to understand how they going to build the architect of building a team here and that’s the tricky part of this Jaylen Brown to me would probably be a little bit more disappointed or upset I don’t want to say angry if he’s not playing like you’re on the roster you’re on the bench and I should be playing okay but then when you’re not because there’s a lot of star power here I mean you got LeBron you got KD you got Steph Curry I mean these are Big Ticket item Anthony Edwards says he’s the number one option here so you got egos here sometimes you got to get the guys who are the foot soldiers and it feels like every team has those or needs to have those because sometimes when you see an All-Star team or a team full of stars lose it’s because they haven’t been playing together and that’s the tricky part of this do I think they’re a lot better than Canada yes in Serbia yes in Germany yes in Greece yes Spain yes but all it takes is one night when a team clicks and your team does not but yeah that was the big story with Team USA was not the friendly against Canada and Canada tried really hard Canada was playing like it was the gold medal which doesn’t bode well for Canada because Team USA was like all right going to put in five new guys all right come on out five new guys going in all right come on out and then they didn’t play well in the first 10 minutes and then they pulled away to win by I think 14 points but uh you know just some of the headlines here so far and Team USA a headline that has nothing to do with their actual play in the uh you know leading up to the Olympics

Dan Patrick reacts to Jaylen Brown calling out Team USA and Nike for being snubbed as Kawhi Leonard’s replacement on the Olympic team in favor of his Boston Celtics teammate Derrick White