When a league is so dominant, you can see the remnant all over the same sport elsewhere. Usually it may not be detected for the fact the country wants to show his homebound players instead of the ones played overseas. Quite a few years back the NBA has been grown as a powerhouse in the basketball realm.
Understanding the loss of US to France can prove you quite well how the NBA changes the game in the international platform. The rules are not the same. Scoring is the same wherever you go. Adjustments have been slow in the US side since most of the guys only play in the NBA. While the other countries play both ways.
US men team is not still up to par but the Ladies are doing their fair share in the winning spectrum. a record of 121 NBA,WNBA are competing for the Olympics game. Some guys that are done for the NBA still contribute for the Olympics for their countries. They bring experience and they can score. It is a two weeks long matches where their bodies can sustain it.
Nigeria, Spain, France have average 7 players from the NBA. It will get tougher for the US to just steamroll everyone nowadays.
I think they can still compete as long they play defense and score the basket.
This is the play for all the teams I guess.
