Nick Friedel

There's too much money involved.

It's too big...

for the league to just pull completely, even if we all agree that the product isn't close to what it used to be.

Sadly, I don't think there's a fix.

And that's the hardest part.

Because the fix is, get these guys to play a little bit harder against each other.

I don't care what format they roll out there.

Unless guys take the game itself more seriously, not much is going to change.

Marshall, I'm sure that is something that they'll continue to kick around.

And my fear would be.

As a one-off, one-year, sure, I think it would be interesting.

But then if we kept running it back year after year, people would be like, okay.

We'd see a lot of, all right, back me down.

I'm going to start chucking up threes because I really don't want to give too much effort into it.

So I...

It's really too bad, though, y'all, because so many years, so long, I would sit there and I would turn on the TV when I was a little kid and I would be looking forward to those moments.

And you'd see the best players going after each other.

And there's just not that pride anymore in going at somebody in a game that

never really mattered, but it mattered to those that played it, which is what took it to a different point.

So if it's a one-on-one tournament, maybe as the newness is apparent with USA versus the world, sure.