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DeAndre didn't get to play, but what a huge result for the U.S. to beat Ghana, 2-1! With Portugal's star defender out for the next game on a red card for head-butting a German opponent laying on the ground with the cameras rolling, the U.S. has a shot at having 2 wins after their next game with Portugal. Who ever imagined the Group of Death could work out like this for the U.S.?

Your name isn't Doug (even though you have a thick Indian accent) is it? If it is, please stop calling my house.

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How awesome to see another of the Mighty Mites score the winning goal in Klinnsyball! John A. Brooks is less than a year older than DeAndre. Loved meeting the American Outlaws Honolulu for the first time this afternoon.

I disagree with almost every part of that lineup. 1) Playing Tree and Johnson together for significant minutes is a problem in my mind. Tree is most effective from about 12 feet in, but he needs space to operate down there. Johnson is almost exclusively a low-post scorer. When he is in the game you can almost count on two extra bodies clogging up the lane for Tree (Johnson and whoever is defending Johnson). It limits the effectiveness of our best player (Tree) to put him on the court with a guy like Johnson. I've taken some flack for it on here before, but I still maintain that Kwan at C gives us the best compliment to Tree. 2) Deji by no means "found himself" last year. He had a couple of good games here and there, but he was wildly inconsistent overall. To the point that he was benched for a good part of the season. He is going to have to take a major step forward for him to start for the duration of the season. 3) I'm never a fan of taking a 6th man of the year and putting him in the starting lineup because of it. Take a look at the Spurs with Manu Ginobli if you want to see what having a great 6th man, and keeping him in that role, can do for you. I would rather see Reggie start at SG as our designated 3 point shooter in the starting lineup and bring Jake off the bench. On top of that, with the injury history that Jake is building up, I expect that we will want to monitor his minutes pretty closely. 4) I actually think Aaron Jackson will be solidly in the rotation by the time the season roles around. In fact, I can see him as probably our second our third man off the bench. 5) As Dave said, I think you very well may see Antino push Betancourt for PG minutes. Melo is going to have to show he can score the basketball enough to at least make defenses account for him. If not the two freshmen are going to push him out of the rotation. If I had to put together a rotation right now: Starters: PG - Robotham SG - McAdams SF - Gladden PF - Treadwell C - Cheatham Rotation: 1st off the bench: Kretzer 2nd off the bench: Johnson 3rd off the bench: Aaron Jackson 4th off the bench: Betancourt/Antino Jackson 5th off the bench: Forsythe 6th off the bench: Ibitayo Odd Man Out: Evans and whoever of Betancourt/Antino Jackson doesn't take the backup PG minutes