But, despite the ballyhoo, Zhou will definitely not be the next Yao Ming.
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Durant scored eight points in the first quarter and Anthony added eight more as the U.S. jumped out to a 30-10 lead. “To win gold in basketball, to me it’s not the greatest accomplishment in the world”. Only now, with Yao retired, there’s no hiding how low they’ve sunk.
The United States improve to a ideal 4-0 against Spain in Olympic play.
Jerry Colangelo, the director of U.S.A. Basketball, told the New York Times that keeping the basketball players in seclusion was a matter of security.”Our players are probably the most recognizable athletes in the world”, he said, explaining the “extra precaution” being taken. That game will also be played on Monday. Serbia was dominant on the boards, outrebounding Venezuela 41-25 while the turnover battle was relatively even, Serbia committing 18 whilst Venezuela gave it away 15 times.
That part did not go well for Spain on Monday in both teams’ second Preliminary Round matchup.
In reality, a team that has now won 43 consecutive games at the Olympics – that hasn’t lost since 1992 – needs to worry little about its opponents.
Even so, there were a couple of interesting Chinese players. The bully and the – hold up, China was no weakling against the United States Olympic men’s basketball squad. All but one of the Americans scored with five players notching double digits. Now his ongoing task is to remake the team’s approach with an eye to the future.
“We just had to change the game, we had to adapt and adjust to how this game was going”, George said in a televised postgame interview. The United States has placed gold in seven of the last eight Olympics.
That said, there are players who played in the WNBA a year ago.
“We’re trying to get better in every single game and you can’t, you can’t relax. To bring that together in one and kind of put something you specialize in to the side and try other things to make the team gel – that’s the biggest challenge”. “I think everybody is just so anxious and excited to play. But it was a good opportunity to learn”.
“I don’t see any way possible they lose”, William Hill sports book director Nick Bogdanovich said. He tied for his team’s high with six rebounds.
Paul George also battled with foul trouble.
“Pair Zhao with 6′ 4” Guo Ailun, who’s 21, and China has a backcourt that could take it through three more Olympic cycles. “They have to have a really, really bad game for us to have a chance to win it”. And from 2006 one man alone has coached all iterations of the “Redeem Teams” in global competition. The women players are got the best of the Rio accommodation, they recall in the New York Times. “Anything that we can get from today is positive”. There will likely be tougher games ahead, but they haven’t had one yet.
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It was similar to the meeting between the teams in Chicago on July 29, when the USA shot poorly and still won by 35 on their pre-Rio exhibition tour.
