Colangelo Wanted ‘New Look’ for Team USA

USA Basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo, in explaining the selections made official early Saturday morning, told ESPN.com before the team’s afternoon flight to Spain that keeping Drummond — along with DeMarcus Cousins and Mason Plumlee — gives coach Mike Krzyzewski “an opportunity to throw a new look at people.”

“This gives us an opportunity to do some things we haven’t had a chance to do in the past,” Colangelo said. “It’s true that the preferred style of play [in recent years] has been going small, but you have to ask: Was that by choice or by necessity?”

via ESPN