United States’ Kevin Durant (5) celebrates with teammates United States’ Draymond Green (14) and others after a steal and dunk against Serbia during the men’s gold medal basketball game at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeir.
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“This is where we wanted to be”, Warriors forward Kevin Durant said.
Over five Olympics as part of the US coaching staff, Coach K helped his country post a 40-0 record. Gold medals no longer come easy.
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“It’s an unbelievable feeling now”, center DeAndre Jordan said.
“We wanted that gold so bad and were disappointed but now it (silver) is really good”.
Anthony also won bronze at the 2004 Games in Athens, where the U.S. suffered its last defeat in Olympic competition, losing to Argentina in the semifinals.
Specifically, Paul George scored nine points but only made two of his nine shot attempts.
They were blown away though in the second quarter as the USA outscored them 33-14 to lead 52-29 at half-time. But when Team USA is interested and cares, it imposes its will. I’m a lifer of the game.
Ewing, who famously won gold with the first Dream Team in 1992, said this year’s version of Team USA, wouldn’t have got anywhere near the first Dream Team, which featured superstars Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Scottie Pippen. “They did a great job”, Djordjevic said.
Coach [Mike Krzyzewski] sat me down and showed me some film of 2010 and he was like, ‘I want to see that guy again’.
He played suffocating man-on-man defense and played the passing lanes well.
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On Sunday, the American men’s squad delivered an equally ruthless performance in crushing Serbia 96-66 to collect their third straight gold, extending their unbeaten run on Olympic hardwood to 25-0. But Spain was able to keep the gap from getting any bigger and chipped away in the final minutes, the margin ending up smaller than in the previous matchups.
Both teams were called for multiple technical fouls in the tense first half.
“We played a great game today”.
There were close victories against Serbia, France and Australia in pool play. He also scored 13 points. Serbia outscored the Americans in the second half 50-44.
The U.S. men have always been an unstoppable force, taking gold in 15 of the 18 Olympics in which they have participated.
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Alba Torrens, Taurasi and Brittney Griner’s teammate in Russian Federation, scored a team-high 18 points for Spain to go along with five rebounds, four assists and five steals.
