Yahoo! Sports writer Adrian Wojnarowski reported Friday, citing unnamed sources, that USA Basketball senior men's national team director Jerry Colangelo is planning to approach Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski about reprising his role coaching the U.S. for the 3-year run-up to the 2012 London Olympics.

Krzyzewski coached the U.S. during the last quadrennial, which ended in August with the U.S. beating Spain in the gold-medal game at the Beijing Olympics. At that time, Krzyzewski said he would not continue but praised the move to keep Colangelo on to continue the progress USA Basketball made in the three years preceding the Beijing experience.

This is the Jedi mind trick the U.S. men's senior national team will try to manage at the 2008 Beijing Olympics: Winning the basketball gold medal without disrespecting their opponents, knowing most people think anything less than gold will equal failure, and only a confident, brash, American (read: cocky) showing will accomplish that against a field that doesn't fear the U.S.

Here's U.S men's senior national team managing director Jerry Colangelo recently trying to juggle all of that at once. He starts by saying he's comfortable with the idea that the Olympic tournament is a "must-win" situation for the U.S.