USA Basketball: Are they proving that USA basketball is a team of stars by making Kevin Durant, the face of this year's 2012 Olympic basketball team?

This current version of team USA basketball style wants to make Oklahoma City Thunder star Kevin Durant its basketball star for their global team in London for the 2012 Olympics. Why does the USA basketball management want to do this? They know now judging from their international competition that opposing basketball teams are learning to play team-oriented style basketball, not the kind of team USA basketball management put together in 1992 with Karl Malone, Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, and John Stockton. Oh, and yes, Charles Barkley too. If team USA wants to defeat their competition like in the past with precise ball movement, sharp shooting, and team work, they must be able to play like a team, not play one-on-one basketball with the other team's defender. By making Kevin Durant the face (and probably the franchise) of the USA men's basketball team for the London 2012 Olympics, USA basketball management has resorted to basketball star-making. They know by now, that putting basketball stars on the same team playing for the United States of America doesn't work. The rest of the world has caught up on playing the game of basketball and are placing a huge emphasis on teamwork than the Americans have less emphasis on. The American basketball team cannot rely on recruiting NBA basketball stars playing for USA anymore. They must go back to the ways of playing fundamental basketball in the 1992 Olympic basketball days when Michael Jordan, Karl Malone, Charles Barkley, Scottie Pippen, Hakeem Olajuwon, and John Stockton played. By making Kevin Durant the star of this year's possible Olympic basketball team, they have shown in some way that basketball stars still make up what determines the spotlight of watching NBA basketball. If the Americans have learned anything to play basketball, they have fallen in love with the fancy and flashy dunks and fallen out of touch with the basic fundamental skills in basketball that they once had a long time ago. If Durant is the star of this team's journey to the '12 Olympic basketball games, then the US belief is that basketball stars do win ball games, and not teamwork. Simply put, if the US wants to defeat international competition like they used to, they must study the model of the 1992 Olympic men's basketball team. Until then, the US will still beat teams and just barely, will they dominate Olympic basketball competition like they used to do in the old days.