“We don’t have the greatest start”.
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The collection of players that wore the red, white, and blue in Barcelona was basketball royalty.
George’s highlight reel-worthy slam dunk with 2:50 remaining in the fourth quarter brought the loudest cheers of the night.
Venezuela’s John Cox, who is Kobe Bryant’s first cousin, had a team-high 19 points.
As team Venezuela has been defeated in the game, Team USA is taking a day of break from the competition to face the 2 wins, zero defeat Australian team on Wednesday, as reported in CBS Sports.
George, who scored five points in 17 minutes, was clearly frustrated by Australia’s rugged style of play during the match, and picked up a technical foul in the first quarter after shoving Matthew Dellavedova.
Further, Jordan said he did not care about the final score. “Once we were able to settle down and play defence, we started hitting some shots. KD, Kyrie [Irving], Carmelo – those are our guys and we’re going to continue to ride them”. The Americans previously tasted defeat in the semifinals of the 2006 FIBA World Championship against Greece and launched this streak on September 2, 2006, with a 96-81 victory over Argentina in the bronze-medal game in Japan.
“It is going to be a grind-out game, I’m looking forward to it”, said American Kevin Durant. Phelps advances to the men’s 200-meter butterfly final on Tuesday as we get closer to the last and final laps.
Bird added nine points and five assists. “They’re a tough team, a physical team”, he said of the Aussies.
“It is impossible to keep intensity the whole game but it is hard for 40 minutes against those people”, Venezuela Coach Nestor Garcia said. “We try not to give them a chance to run because when they run they kill”. “We just fouled. That’s good for us overall to see how we would respond”. It was good for us to see where we are and we needed it.
Coach K is correct that it is not the USA team’s own personal boat, and that they are not permanently living on said boat for the rest of their lives.
Speaking after the 10-point win, Durant predicted the two sides would meet again at the business end of the tournament.
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Cox sees little hope of anyone stopping the U.S. juggernaut. As the most senior member of this Olympic team and a part of the 2004 team that came home with a bronze medal, he has accepted the mantle of leadership and can speak about what it feels to be like on the wrong side of an Olympic loss.
