Thursday, August 14, 2008

Team USA Fire's back at Greece




The USA team avenges their loss from the previous Olympic tournament when they lost to Greece 101-95 by keeping a nice comfortable lead over the Greece team blowing them out in by 23 winning 92-69.  When the USA team wasn't scoring they were swatting the shots that Greece was trying to throw up, so it sounds like it was a dunk fest on top of a block party.  According to guard Dwayne Wade "We played like we wanted to win. We played together," U.S. guard Dwyane Wade said. "We were very aware of their offensive sets, we were very aware of their personnel and we played like that. So we were kind of a step in front of what they wanted to do because we kind of knew everything already." The Americans found their range from 3 point seeing that the Greek's were in a zone defense for most of the game.

Lebron James had 13 points, Carmelo Anthony chipped in with 8 points, Kobe Bryant had 18, Dwayne Wade came off the bench with 17 points and Chris Bosh as well added in 18 points, teams high scores.  The USA Basketball team is now 3-0 and is facing a greater challenge in World Champion Spain. Which moves on to a matchup of Group B unbeatens Saturday night against world champion Spain. The winner will earn the group's top seed for the quarterfinals.  









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