the US gets up 15 and then bricks a wide open 3, airballs a 3 footer, whiffs on an alley-oop and airballs a fadeaway. come on. play decent offense and you put this away. throw in the fact we immediately give up 3 wide open 3's (luckily gasol missed) and we just fell apart when it looked like we were on a roll.
player of the game: DeAndre Jordan, Team USA dont win this game without his interior d, and above the rim play
he took like a half step after he actually got a grip on the ball. that's just making calls to make calls.
I give US credit for stepping up the intensity early on this game. No one player was on fire, and they still played the typical ISO game, but DeAndre Jordan led a team rebounding effort and disrupted Spain's schemes. Spain was very foolish to feed Gasol when he's matched up against Jordan in the post. Looks like the US just always has Spain's number in FIBA games.
Sunday 1:45pm CST No need for cable, it will air on NBC ------- Bronze medal game on NBCSN, Sun 9:15am Edit: Women's gold medal game will also be on NBC, Sat 1:15pm
yeah, it was actually good when cousins fouled out because it meant jordan would play the rest of the game. so many blocks and challenges, grabs rebounds, doesn't get in the way on offense. terrible game from melo and so-so game from durant and we win so that's good because that means we had to play good D. butler continues to be astoundingly bad on offense. for some reason near the end of the game the US kept taking quick shots. all we needed to do was run some time. i know the quarters are 10 minutes but even then the minutes just seem to fly by in international basketball.
They should have taken him out a long time ago. He did absolutely nothing out there and was hurting them more than anytnjng else. Not a threat offensively. Couldn't even stay infront of lowry. No reason for him to really be out there
shastarocket, thanks for posting those game times. To all, in the USA/Spain game, how did Sergio Llull look?
I don't think lull is an NBA player. He looks like he would struggle a bit. Nothing really stands out about him tbh
