First game, we didn’t really have to guard the post. “For gymnastics and being a USA athlete and us having such a great team this year, it was fun to watch”.
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“It is clear that if you do not play at 150 per cent against these women they will win by 40 points as today”.
George’s highlight slam dunk with 2:50 remaining in the fourth quarter brought the loudest cheers of the night.
None of them, of course, is a member of Team USA.
It was obvious throughout Wednesday’s game as a cohesive Australian team with five National Basketball Association players gave the USA’s All-Star crew problems throughout the game.
The Americans responded by outscoring Venezuela, 30-8, in the second quarter and the rout was on. Kevin Durant, who scored the team’s first 7 points of the game, and Anthony led the team in scoring at halftime, with eleven and ten points, respectively.
“Once we settled down, made our adjustments to the way they were calling the game, the way that Venezuela wanted to play the game, that second quarter we picked it up defensively and turned it around”, Anthony said. He eventually fouled out and finished the night with 6 points and 5 rebounds. “He’s old”, DeAndre Jordan said affectionately of the 32-year-old Anthony, the team’s oldest player.
Venezuela, with no NBA players, was level with the US NBA lineup at 18-18 after the first quarter. “KD, Kyrie [Irving], Carmelo – those are our guys and we’re going to continue to ride them”.
This time previous year, Kyrie Irving was recovering from a broken kneecap. After dropping 20 points on Venezuela, George is averaging 17.5 points per game in the Olympics and the usa is coasting. “And the minute you stop there’s no let-off”.
“It is impossible to keep intensity the whole game but it is hard for 40 minutes against those people”, Venezuela Coach Nestor Garcia said. “You don’t want to give a chance that they run because when they run, they kill”.
Coach K proceeded to go on a comical rant about his team’s floating lodgings.
“We’re staying on a boat”, Krzyzewski said. The U.S. was disjointed on offense and the open shots they did manage routinely clanked off the rim or missed the hoop entirely, like one notable Klay Thompson three-point try.
However, his 2016 all-around title did not come easily, with numerous top gymnasts in the world performing as well as they had in their lives.
The Australian basketball team vowed they would not die wondering when they took on the might of the United States in Thursday’s basketball encounter, and they did not let their supporters down losing narrowly 98-88. Cox is the cousins of two-time gold medalist Kobe Bryant.
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Cox sees little hope of anyone stopping the USA juggernaut. “They’re too long and athletic”.
