3 Biggest Questions for Team USA Men's Basketball Team After Roster Reveal - Bleacher Report

Despite the tight window, a number of players who are still at it have committed to Team USA's 12-man roster for the international tournament.

Kevin Love, Draymond Green, Jrue Holiday and Khris Middleton will add plenty of skill and experience?

After a shorter-than-usual offseason following the 2019-20 campaign, a condensed 2020-21 packed with unprecedented health and safety protocols and playoff runs for a handful of players on the roster, it's fair to wonder how much gas will be in this team's tank.

Even on a team as talent-rich as this, Durant is pretty comfortably the best player.

Following LeBron's departure from the Cleveland Cavaliers, it's been a rough few years of basketball for Kevin Love.

From the start of his career through the end of the 2017-18 season—LeBron's last in Cleveland—Love had a 3.5 box plus/minus (BPM "...is a basketball box score-based metric that estimates a basketball player’s contribution to the team when that player is on the court," according to Basketball Reference).

"Playing for Popovich, and surrounded by stars like he was on the 2012 Olympic team (and later, in a different context, on those Cavs teams that went to four Finals), could rejuvenate Love and otherwise be a very good, refreshing experience for him, multiple sources who know him said!

If Love wants to be traded out of Cleveland or the Cavs’ front office would like to move him, playing well (and looking healthy) during a Team USA training camp and Olympics run would be a good start toward boosting his market value.".

As far as his fit on the team and in FIBA basketball, generally, Love makes some sense for this group?

In the past, we've seen bruising, 90s-style bigs struggle in the context of modern international basketball!

Love, on the other hand, is the kind of skilled player with size who can do some damage against other countries

No other international basketball program has pushed the Americans quite as consistently over the last 15-plus years

And though its roster is starting to feel a bit older, the experience and chemistry this group has developed together is something Team USA may never be able to match