Basketball: USA struggling again?

[Martin Aigner]

End of 3rd quarter: 65:67

How can this happen???

[adios]

The rest of the world has improved in basketball and the NBA players IMO in the aggregate have a quite a bit of room for improvement in perimeter shooting.

[WC64]

At least they won I guess lol

[vulturesrow]

You are definitely correct on lack of perimeter shooting ability on the USA team and its even more noticeable given the penchant the other international teams have for the 3 pt shot. That being said, I dont think the USA team is going a good job of taking advantage of their strengths, their athleticism and ability to improvise. Sure the other teams have gameplanned against that to a degree with all the zone they have been playing. But I think the US just needs to be super aggressive on defense and take every opportunity to speed up the game.

[Martin Aigner]

Yep, finally. Jeez, they are costing me lots of nerves. I´ve bet € 200 before the tourney for them to win the gold medal. Looked like this was the safest bet on earth. No more /images/graemlins/crazy.gif /images/graemlins/confused.gif