A film study of the U.S. men's basketball team at the World Cup reveals no clear second scorer behind Ant Edwards and a lack of chemistry compared to opponents who've played together since childhood. Dennis Schröder is praised for playing at maximum intensity without pay, while the team seems to lack the national pride driving other squads.
I think it's so tough for a USA team or any team to come together in such a short period of time to play against a team that's played together their whole childhood. So they have chemistry, they know who's the number one guy, they know what they're doing on offense, what they're doing on defense. You can tell throughout these games that USA— okay, Ant's the number one option. Who's number two? BI? Mikhail? Who's number 2? We don't know. Like, so at halftime they don't know, and that's tough when you're playing in the game. This guy's been amazing all World Cup. Cash app. The crazy thing too about this is that none of these guys are really making money from this, but like, I've never seen Dennis Schroeder play harder in his career, and he's not getting paid a dollar to play in this. They're playing for something bigger than them, their country, and I feel like USA doesn't really take that
