After a tremendous start for the USA Men’s Gymnastics Team in Rio on Saturday, things took a turn.
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Although the first quarter ended with both teams tied at 18, the USA were able to find their rhythm in the final three periods to outscore Venezuela 95-51.
Women’s basketball prelims continue, as team United States of America takes on Serbia in search of its 44th straight Olympic victory. Since 1992 the USA teams have stayed in different locations and because of the accommodations here, that was good. This total also included a monstrous 70 points scored off the bench (even if calling any of the players on the roster bench players is laughable). “I’m told to sleep on a boat, so I sleep on a boat”, Butler said. They did just that in the second quarter of play, putting their feet firmly on the gas pedal and powering through with a 24-4 run that blew the game open, never looking back. “We used our hands a little bit too much, bailing them out on a lot of their baskets”. We can’t dig ourselves a hold. “The way we play defense, if we guard like that for 40 straight minutes, we’ll be in a great position to win”.
Team USA has had a spot on the podium 26 time during this year’s Olympics.
With the team Venezuela locked down on defense while leaving team United States of America at the free flow in offense, the latter team trailed the game initially by 30-plus points and eventually by 40-plus points. Anthony now has 262 total points, which is six more than Jordan’s 256 points.
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And Australia’s two other National Basketball Association players, the Detroit Pistons’s Aron Baynes and the Utah Jazz’s Joe Ingles, each fired off 10 points while the team shot a solid 49.2 percent from the field.
