Last time I checked the Olympics is about the best going against the best, compeating at the highest level to show who is better. Team USA dominated this game in which half the time they wasn't running anything. How many times did we see Melo walk into a three in transition or D-Will or paul get a steal or rebound and instead of pushing the ball up the court racing for oops, lay ups and dunks they pulled back and try to allow everyone even the Nigerians to get back on D. Coach K isn't known for running scored up not in international play nor in College play. There a many times at DUKE where his team has out match and overwhelm their oppenant and in the last four minuets of the game he runs what I call the victory formation of college basketball offense, running the shot clock down and shooting a outside shot.
You should never blame Team USA for blowing their opposition out of the water, they came to prove they are the best team not only in the world but one of the best to ever play in the Olympics. If they want to score 150 points than so be it, it is up to their opposition to stop them or at least try. USA could of easily gone for more than what they did, they pulled up and basically had a shooting practice against a team that no longer wanted to even play the game.
AND to further show that K was no longer interested in trying to show off he basicly had his reserves (if you can even call them that) play all of the second half. The two best players not only on team USA but in the world Lebron and Kobe sat out the whole second half. This was a great day for basketball records broken, a few games including the GB VS SPAIN game going down to the wire. Really excited to watch what happens from here on. But I do agree, this tournament is seemingly a tourney for who can win silver, the way team usa is playing right now I don't see anyone coming with in a single digit margin let alone beating them, but hey stuff happens who knows.
You should never blame Team USA for blowing their opposition out of the water, they came to prove they are the best team not only in the world but one of the best to ever play in the Olympics. If they want to score 150 points than so be it, it is up to their opposition to stop them or at least try. USA could of easily gone for more than what they did, they pulled up and basically had a shooting practice against a team that no longer wanted to even play the game.
AND to further show that K was no longer interested in trying to show off he basicly had his reserves (if you can even call them that) play all of the second half. The two best players not only on team USA but in the world Lebron and Kobe sat out the whole second half. This was a great day for basketball records broken, a few games including the GB VS SPAIN game going down to the wire. Really excited to watch what happens from here on. But I do agree, this tournament is seemingly a tourney for who can win silver, the way team usa is playing right now I don't see anyone coming with in a single digit margin let alone beating them, but hey stuff happens who knows.
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