HasSingh

Bio

About me

I was born outside the US and came here around 5 years old. I'm currently attending college to complete my undergrad in business with hopes of pursuing a career in finance, such as IB or PE. Some of my hobbies include playing sports such as basketball or going to the gym in my free time, which I have been doing since high school, where I also ran sprints for track and field.

My Wikipedia activities

They are mainly going to be cars, specifically, ones that can usually be modded to an extent to look better/ add performance, whether it be more horsepower or sheer speed. Some popular ones in today's day are BMW's M series. Such as M3 or M4 are the main ones in the car world that people will tend to gravitate towards. There are crazy transformations out there that people have posted of what they have done with base cars they bought through the dealership and made changes to make a night and day difference in the appearance and performance.

Article evaluation

I have always loved basketball since a kid and have always kept up with the sport for as long as I can remember. I wanted to talk about a certain time in USA basketball nicknamed "The Redeem Team," and I visited the Redeem Team article on Wikipedia and found three aspects of it worth commenting on the loss in the 2004 Olympics, the assembly of the redeem team, and the win in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

2004 Olympics The article doesn't mention that the USA men's basketball had always been considered the most dominant country in the sport worldwide, and everyone around the globe never thought otherwise due to how they had brought home gold every time. In 2004 however, the USA had a shocking loss during the 2004 Olympics in Greece. They lost 89-81 to Argentina in the semifinals, leading them to defeat Italy in the finals and give them their first basketball medal ever.

Making of the Redeem team A lot more went into creating the dream team, and the article fails to touch on that. The loss led to many changes, including the roster and coaches. They brought in the head coach from Duke university to lead the USA men's team. Even though they had some of the best players in the league, such as LeBron James and Dwayne Wade, it wasn't enough, so they ended up bringing in Kobe Bryant, who at the time was going through a lot of controversies. Kobe brought a different energy to the team, which led the team to follow his routine and work ethic to strengthen the team.

2008 Olympics The team had landed in Beijing, and Kobe Bryant suddenly was the country's biggest celebrity. Fans across were trying to meet him in the article, which I think should have been included. To win the gold USA had to play Spain for the second time; the first time, the USA had won 119-89, so they knew Spain was going to give them a hard final match, and they did. The score was USA 118-107. The Redeem team had won and brought back gold. There is also a movie that has been released on this, which also catches up with the players today who played in it, which I think should be mentioned in the article.

Conclusion The article doesn't really go into depth into what the redeem team really was, it gives an overall summary of the 2008 win in the Olympics, and that's it. I think it was a very special team with both Lebron James and Kobe Bryant on the same team, the two best players in the league and some would argue as the best ever to play the sport. The article didn't talk about the coach, the manager of the team or the summer practices in Las Vegas. There are many details left out about this, so I think watching the documentary is better for someone who wants to know more about it.