Boomers guard Patty Mills tries to get past American rival Kyrie Irving. Team USA’s first deficit at intermission in the Olympics since the ill-fated semifinal loss to Argentina at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Their chemistry has been critical for the Team USA’s success.
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Once-mighty Spain has stumbled to an 0-2 start.
Patty Mills had 30 points and Matt Dellavedova had 11 points, six rebounds and 11 assists as the Aussies didn’t take a backwards step against the U.S. team.
“Today Carmelo set the record for most points scored by a U.S. player, career-wise”.
Once again, it was Anthony whose presence made the difference as his three-pointer halfway through the fourth gave the U.S. a necessary spark.
Nestor Colmenares lead the Venezuelans, now 1-3, with 16 points, while China’s Yi Jianlian had 18 points and 10 rebounds in defeat.
But Mills will trade any individual statistics for the chance to chase a medal.
He’s the leader on this team and we have a leader like that that’s going to leave it all on the floor, no matter what possession is going on throughout the game. We have the biggest spotlight, the biggest bullseye on our back. If they don’t, they get beaten to a pulp.
Put a Team USA jersey on Anthony every night and the New York Knicks might be National Basketball Association champions. This test from Australia will strengthen the resolve of the Red, White and Blue! The U.S. actually shot better on threes (17-of-39, 44 percent) than twos (17-of-48, 35 percent) in the game.
The men’s basketball match held on last Wednesday was quite exciting between U.S. against Australia.
“We’re probably going to see them again and we’ve got to do a better job of matching them”, he said. “It was an adjustment for us”.
Anthony was always enjoying every game he played. I know people are proud of us and were not supposed to beat these guys. but we believe we can beat them and we lost the game..
Canada’s win also clinched a spot in the quarterfinals for the USA, and the teams will play Friday. On the night, he also passed David Robinson and then LeBron James to become the USA’s all-time leading scorer.
A 15-3 Australia run in the second quarter, led by six points from captain David Andersen, put the U.S. team in a 46-39 hole.
In my last article I said that Australia would provide Team USA with their toughest competition in pool play, but I did not think that Australia would push the US until the final minutes. “We’re not going to back down to anyone”, Ingles told the United States press.
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It wasn’t just that they were the FIBA World Cup men’s basketball champs. They are scheduled to play against Serbia on Friday and France on Sunday to wrap things up in the group stage. We beat a heck of a team tonight. “The first two games we played we were significantly better than those two, but this is the real world now”.
