Talk:2004 United States men's Olympic basketball team

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Heavily favored
Reagrding the point that 81.9.126.76 brought up at User_talk:Bagumba about whether this team was "heavily favored", I do have some concerns looking at the curent article. I have to agree that Social Psychology in Sport and the Miami Herald article is unclear whether they were referring to the odds for the gold medal or just the Puerto Rico game. While Creativity in Groups was explicit that they were referring to gold, I also think that if this was a widely-held opinion, we should be able to find expert basketball sources that than relying on sociology books. We also need to balance that in hindsight, many sources after the fact are saying that 2004 was perhaps the weakest teem talent-wise the US has fielded in the Olympics since the Dream Team. Let me know your thoughts.—Bagumba (talk) 12:03, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
 * I'm sure there's more sources around. I'll take a look. JimKaatFan (talk) 14:25, 8 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Hey Bagumba, I also was wondering about the "biggest loss" bit while I was editing this article, but with all the trouble from that IP I lost track of it. It's been sitting there unsourced since the article was created 6 years ago. Your "citation needed" tag reminded me it was there - I have a feeling it might not even be accurate, and I certainly can't find a source for it myself. I did find a different factoid in a CNN article about how that loss broke a 24-game winning streak in the Olympics for the USA team. I can just replace it with that; if you think it needs something else, feel free to revert. Thanks. JimKaatFan (talk) 14:34, 8 May 2020 (UTC)

I removed "heavily" from "favored". I added an SI source, which said they were in danger of being upset.—Bagumba (talk) 13:20, 10 May 2020 (UTC)