Gay's line was fantastic: 27 points on 11-for-12 shooting, including 3-of-4 from 3-point range, with four rebounds and three steals in 27 minutes. We're not saying that Gay went out and made the 2010 version of Team USA, but his performance Saturday night in the Americans' public intrasquad scrimmage should put him high atop the list of players who will be in the mix for the final three or four spots that will be available for the FIBA World Championship in Turkey next summer. So we would suggest that the youngster from the Memphis Grizzlies familiarizes himself with the following: the value of the Turkish lira versus the dollar the relative merits of playing in Izmir instead of Ankara the history of Muslim secularism and the achievements of one Mustafa Kemal Ataturk the beauty of the Bosphorus and, lastly, where to find a decent meal if you can't really stomach three straight weeks of olives and yogurt as your dietary staples. LAS VEGAS - We have some advice for Rudy Gay, whose knowledge of Turkey is basically this: He had a college professor at UConn who was Turkish (he couldn't remember which subject the professor taught), and he knows that Hedo Turkoglu hails from there, too. In just 27 minutes of action, Gay (center) scored 27 points on 11-of-12 shooting from the field.
