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Come discuss the 2008 Beijing Summer games with a couple of fanatics!
Sunday, August 08, 2004
Men's Basketball Synposis
USA Men's Basketball had an embarrassing loss to Italy this past week, losing 95-78. In the next game against Germany, they won with a buzzer-beating 3 point shot. As the team continues to learn how to play with eachother, the beat Serbia by a score of 78-60. Right now they are about pegging even with Turkey, who is not playing in the Olympics.
With basketball being a purely USA invention, I feel we have a lot of pride in this particular sport. Any time we don't dominate in it is disappointing. I hope they can gel a little more before their opening Olympic game in exactly one week. That's not a lot of time to get their sh*t together...
USA Men's Basketball had an embarrassing loss to Italy this past week, losing 95-78. In the next game against Germany, they won with a buzzer-beating 3 point shot. As the team continues to learn how to play with eachother, the beat Serbia by a score of 78-60. Right now they are about pegging even with Turkey, who is not playing in the Olympics.
With basketball being a purely USA invention, I feel we have a lot of pride in this particular sport. Any time we don't dominate in it is disappointing. I hope they can gel a little more before their opening Olympic game in exactly one week. That's not a lot of time to get their sh*t together...
