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Just posted a nice long narrative of my experience at the USA vs. Canada game but it got tossed cuzz the system "logged me off" for whatever reason. I'll keep it simple this time:
* The game was kool
* Go Mishigan!
Sorry, but being treated like a dumass makes me think like one.
Peace.
* The game was kool
* Go Mishigan!
Sorry, but being treated like a dumass makes me think like one.
Peace.
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OSUBasketballJunkie
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espn.com
Kobe unleashes defense and new nickname on Lithuania
By Chris Sheridan
ESPN.com
(Archive)
Updated: August 1, 2008
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=3514681&type=story
MN Chan/Getty Images
Kobe is embracing his role as Team USA's defensive stopper. Just ask Lithuania's Sarunas Jasikevicius.
MACAU -- We have three candidates for strangest thing we saw on Friday: a referee smoking a cigarette at halftime, Sarunas Jasikevicius looking as if he had never played the game of basketball before and Chris Paul throwing down a dunk late in the fourth quarter.
Well, check that.
Paul has dunked before, which everyone on Team USA was quick to remind Dwight Howard of, given that he was the guy Paul dunked over in a Hornets-Magic game a couple of years back.
The other two items, however, were true rarities, and Kobe Bryant's shutting down of Jasikevicius was one of the biggest eye-openers, as Team USA handled Lithuania with relative ease in a 120-84 victory that wrapped up the Macau portion of its pre-Olympic tour.
"That's what I do," said Bryant, who gave himself a new nickname: "The Doberman."
There was pretty much nothing but a long, long list of positives for Team USA in this 36-point stomping, so let's just go ahead and rattle off a few:
Dwyane Wade again looked like the Wade of two years ago, punctuating a 7-for-9, 19-point performance with yet another powerful windmill dunk late in the fourth quarter that had his teammates jumping off the bench and roaring in admiration.
Continued.......
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Jake
Once a Buckeye, always a Buckeye
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Hmmm....this sounds eerily familiar. Let's hope they were just tired of exhibitions. Still a win, though.
SHANGHAI, China (AP) They couldn't shoot and occasionally didn't defend. Definitely a performance the Americans should be relieved came before they got to Beijing. Undefeated, but no longer unchallenged, the U.S. Olympic basketball team wrapped up its exhibition schedule with its toughest test, pulling away to beat Australia 87-76 Tuesday night.
US survives toughest test, beats Aussies by 11 - Olympics - Yahoo! Sports
SHANGHAI, China (AP) They couldn't shoot and occasionally didn't defend. Definitely a performance the Americans should be relieved came before they got to Beijing. Undefeated, but no longer unchallenged, the U.S. Olympic basketball team wrapped up its exhibition schedule with its toughest test, pulling away to beat Australia 87-76 Tuesday night.
US survives toughest test, beats Aussies by 11 - Olympics - Yahoo! Sports
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OHSportsFan
Fan of Ohio Sports in Indy
The Aussies were without their standout player, Andrew Bogut, as well. Certainly not the best game, but I think Americans are fooling themselves if they think getting to an Olympic Gold will be an easy road. I think Team USA will win, but there will be tough games along the way.
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Jake
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OHSportsFan9;1223478; said:
Anybody who still thinks the USA will cruise to any tournament victory is kidding themselves. It's not 1992 anymore, and not every USA national team is the "Dream Team" despite ESPN's assertions to the contrary.
I miss 1992...and I'm not talking about hoops. :p
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OHSportsFan
Fan of Ohio Sports in Indy
GAME TIME!
Yao starts the game off with a 3!
Howard with a dunk.
Another 3 for China.
Howard with an AND 1...FT no good.
6-4 China early on.
Yao starts the game off with a 3!
Howard with a dunk.
Another 3 for China.
Howard with an AND 1...FT no good.
6-4 China early on.
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OSUBasketballJunkie
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16-16.......the refs sure call things different on the international level.....
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ScriptOhio
Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.
ESPN tops Yahoo they have 10 questions:
10 questions as Team USA begins opening-round play
Jamie Squire/Getty Images
Team USA looked sharp during the opening ceremonies. How will they look during the opening round?
BEIJING -- Nobody has played a game yet, but the Olympic team from Argentina has already defeated the USA in one small, insignificant way.
OK, maybe it wasn't so insignificant if you were one of the athletes who spent four hours standing and enduring the stifling heat and humidity during Friday night's opening ceremonies.
"I see Manu [Ginobili], and they've got like a short-sleeve shirt on," Kobe Bryant said Saturday.
"It was burning hot, and you know, we had the slacks, blazer and a long-sleeve shirt on," Chris Bosh said. "I saw Carlos Delfino last night, and he had his sleeves rolled up, some nice linen pants, and I was like: 'Where were we on that one?'
"But it was all for the sake of our country, so it was worth it."
Argentina and the United States are in different preliminary-round groups, meaning they won't play each other -- if at all -- until the single-elimination medal round. And like those short-sleeved shirts the Argentines wore Friday night, many of Ginobili and Delfino's teammates have something else the Americans envy: the gold medals they won four years ago in Athens.
So what'll be the key factors for Team USA as the Olympics unfold?
Here are a few answers to some questions confronting the Americans in the 2008 Beijing Olympics:
Q: How big of a game is the opener against China (Sunday, 10:15 a.m. ET)?
A: The American players have been told that the game will be viewed by a minimum of 1 billion people worldwide, making it the most watched game in the history of basketball. So you'd have to say that makes it a big game, especially here in China, where the home team is under enormous pressure to make it to the final eight, as it did four years ago in Athens.
China will have a major height advantage with 7-foot-6 Yao Ming and 7-footers Wang Zhizhi and Yi Jianlian (the latter two of that trio will go outside and try to beat the U.S. from 3-point range), but the Americans will endeavor to keep the ball out of those players' hands by pressuring China in the backcourt, either creating turnovers or forcing the Chinese to spend 10 to 14 seconds getting the ball into position to run their offensive sets.
Q: When the ball goes up for the opening tip, who will be Team USA's starting five?
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Entire article: ESPN - 10 questions as Team USA begins opening-round play - Olympics
10 questions as Team USA begins opening-round play
Team USA looked sharp during the opening ceremonies. How will they look during the opening round?
BEIJING -- Nobody has played a game yet, but the Olympic team from Argentina has already defeated the USA in one small, insignificant way.
OK, maybe it wasn't so insignificant if you were one of the athletes who spent four hours standing and enduring the stifling heat and humidity during Friday night's opening ceremonies.
"I see Manu [Ginobili], and they've got like a short-sleeve shirt on," Kobe Bryant said Saturday.
"It was burning hot, and you know, we had the slacks, blazer and a long-sleeve shirt on," Chris Bosh said. "I saw Carlos Delfino last night, and he had his sleeves rolled up, some nice linen pants, and I was like: 'Where were we on that one?'
"But it was all for the sake of our country, so it was worth it."
Argentina and the United States are in different preliminary-round groups, meaning they won't play each other -- if at all -- until the single-elimination medal round. And like those short-sleeved shirts the Argentines wore Friday night, many of Ginobili and Delfino's teammates have something else the Americans envy: the gold medals they won four years ago in Athens.
So what'll be the key factors for Team USA as the Olympics unfold?
Here are a few answers to some questions confronting the Americans in the 2008 Beijing Olympics:
Q: How big of a game is the opener against China (Sunday, 10:15 a.m. ET)?
A: The American players have been told that the game will be viewed by a minimum of 1 billion people worldwide, making it the most watched game in the history of basketball. So you'd have to say that makes it a big game, especially here in China, where the home team is under enormous pressure to make it to the final eight, as it did four years ago in Athens.
China will have a major height advantage with 7-foot-6 Yao Ming and 7-footers Wang Zhizhi and Yi Jianlian (the latter two of that trio will go outside and try to beat the U.S. from 3-point range), but the Americans will endeavor to keep the ball out of those players' hands by pressuring China in the backcourt, either creating turnovers or forcing the Chinese to spend 10 to 14 seconds getting the ball into position to run their offensive sets.
Q: When the ball goes up for the opening tip, who will be Team USA's starting five?
....continued
Entire article: ESPN - 10 questions as Team USA begins opening-round play - Olympics
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