This week in sport: burying the lede and USA Basketball, Cole world, why possession isn't nine tenths of winning football games, tricky tiki-taka tactics, immobile strikers, misguided clamouring, But It's England, chancers and frauds, a very long runup to Beeso's Suns victory lap, insane in the midrange, compulsive switch-flickers, crowbarred F1 coverage, draft chat is BS, you can't win anything with Kidd's, one Crowder's ours, ceiling setting coaches, controversial handicapping approaches, Giannis goes supernova, Messi finally gets to be Argentinian, girt/soil/toil, building to the next World Cup, subtweeting Simmons, cut price d-d-d-Delly and passing up shots. BALLS and tripping balls are available on their own RSS feeds, as well as being found together on Omny Studio, Spotify and Apple Podcasts (feel free to subscribe, rate and review) - and we welcome your reckons via Twitter, Facebook and email.