A 2004 Collegiate Men's Olympic Basketball Team

Continuing where I left off, I've moved on to making an US Men's Olympic basketball team made up of college players. And this would 2004, a year of infamy in US Olympic Basketball, in which for the first time a team of professional players failed to win the gold medal(and lose three times in the process).
I think it would have been Roy Williams as the coach, if he wouldn't have already been before in his remarkably consistent career at Kansas and before returning North Carolina to national prominence. And I think he would have been the ideal coach for this team.


Starters

• C Emeka Okafor (Connecticut)
• PF Wayne Simien  (Kansas)
• SF Josh Childress (Stanford)
• SG Ben Gordon (Connecticut)
• PG Jameer Nelson (St. Joseph's)

Bench

• PF/C Sean May (North Carolina)
• PF Hakim Warrick (Syracuse)
• PF Lawrence Roberts (Mississippi State) 
• SF Luke Jackson (Oregon)
• SG J.J. Redick (Duke)
• G Blake Stepp (Gonzaga)
• PG Chris Paul (Wake Forrest) 

 Maybe I wasn't paying attention as much during this season of college hoops(Mizzou had probably the most disappointing season in their history with the talent they had.) but apart from a few marquee names, the group of players just doesn't jump out at you. The previous Olympic years I've done all had at least a couple guys with that potential that make you think it would be a dominant talented team. This year's group of players would have made 2004 still seem like it was going to be a struggle for the US.
But there are a few stars, Okafor and Nelson, plus Paul who was only a Freshman here. But skipping college had become the norm for major talent. Actual 2004 team members, LeBron James, would have been a Freshman,  Carmelo Anthony, skipped out in 2003 after his Freshman year and Dwyane Wade, left early as well in 2003, all would have been marquee talent.
And all three are that mid size athletic guy or an athletic forward, which going over the All-American lists and other rosters for 2004, which seemed to be lacking. This roster reflects that, in that the guards are all smaller and the big guys tall, height wise. I'm sure in real life it would have been balanced a little more, but it just seemed like all the talent that year were smaller guards, with a handful of bigs.
But the thing is, Roy Williams could probably work it to his advantage. Quite a few of his later Kansas teams were built on three smaller guys and two bigs. As much as I despised him for coaching KU and now Carolina, I've got to admit he's a hell of a recruiter and able to harvest that talent into a unit. With this roster he has talented point guards, solid shooters and quality big guys with various strengths. This team might have stood a better chance that the real 2004 team...
Though maybe we're just destined to lose every 16 years. 1972 to 1988 to 2004, which puts 2020 as the next year. And that will be the first Games after which Coach K won't be coach after righting the US ship following the 2004 debacle...