Team USA Basketball Summer Olympics 2012

[King Taharqa]

113-59 USA.

The Americans smash DR. Anthony Davis was balling in mop up duty. Durant was lethal hitting 5 3 pointers. Kevin Love came in and hit some 3's. Say what you want, but this 2012 team's wings are unstoppable. There's no way you can shut down all of these guys from scoring buckets. LeBron, Kobe, Durant, Melo, Love, Westbrook. Thats a lot to deal with for any defense. DR ran zone, and Durant and gang just shot over the top of it. Nice win, but far from our best effort tonight.

[Panthers128]

I turned the game off at halftime. I prefer to watch competitive games. This was like those poorly scheduled college basketball match-ups at the beginning of the seasons. It had a Duke Vs. Coastal Carolina feel to it.

[Herbert The Love Bug]

Why isn't Dowerd playing? Is he hurt?

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

I could have seen KD starting over Carmelo, but KD did look real good coming off the bench.

[Panthers128]

USA plays Brazil tomorrow at 8PM.

http://www.cbb.com.b...Jogadores?opt=M

http://en.wikipedia....#Current_roster

For anyone wanting to scout the opponent, there they are. They're much more threatening than the DR, this should be a competitive basketball game, though the US should pull away in the second half. USA has much more depth.

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

I decided to paste this for reference,

NBA Players By Team

USA: LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul, Deron Williams, Russell Westbrook, Blake Griffin, Kevin Love, James Harden, Andre Iguodala, and Tyson Chandler

Spain: Pau Gasol, Marc Gasol, Serge Ibaka, Ricky Rubio (injured), Jose Calderon, and Rudy Fernandez

France: Tony Parker, Nicolas Batum, Boris Diaw, Ronny Turiaf, and Kevin Seraphin

Argentina: Emanuel "Manu" Ginobili, Carlos Delfino, and Luis Scola

Brazil: Leandro Barbosa, Anderson Varejao, Nene Hilario, and Tiago Splitter

Great Britain: Luol Deng and Eric Boateng

Russia: Timofey Mozgov

Nigeria: Al-Farouq Aminu

Lithuania: Linas Kleiza

China: Yi Jianlian

Australia: Patrick "Patty" Mills

Tunisia: N/A

Other Notables

USA: N/A

Spain: Jaun Carlos Navarro (Former Memphis Grizzlies player)

France: Florent Pietrus (brother of Mikael Pietrus)

Argentina: Andres Nocioni (Former Chicago Bulls, Sacramento Kings, and Philadelphia 76ers player)

Brazil: N/A

Great Britain: Kyle Johnson (Long Island University Player) and Andrew Lawrence (College of Charleston Player)

Russia: Andrei Kirilenko (Former Utah Jazz Player)

Nigeria: Ike Diogu (Former Player of Seven Teams)

Lithuania: Jonas Valanciunas (Rights owned by the Toronto Raptors) and Deividas Dulkys (Florida State Player)

China: N/A

Australia: Matt Dellavedova (St. Mary's Player)

Tunisia: N/A

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

Tomorrow with show us if being an undersized team will prove to be a struggle for us against Spain.

Keep an eye on the rebounding column tomorrow.

Also it's a double-header

UCONN, I mean team USA (women) play Brazil at 5:30.

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

The USA Women beat Brazil 99-67.

The USA Men play Brazil at 8:04.

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

Game time, this will be an interesting game as Brazil definitely has size on us.

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

Obama and Biden are at the game.

Oddly enough "Born in the USA" by Springsteen is playing around the arena lol

[Panthers128]

Brazil is starting the game well. This a team that finished 9th in the FIBA championships just two years back. The international game is continuously getting better. This PG on Brazil looks like he could play in the NBA.

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

USA just can't get their outside shot going.

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

I agree Sylvian, Huertas looks really good.

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

I think Andre Iguodala is one of the most underrated players in the NBA and I believe he is an excellent addition to the US National Team. If MKG can turn into an Iguodala-type player than I think we will have done very well in this years draft.