Thursday, August 2, 2012

U.S. Men's Basketball Team Doubles Up On Nigeria

Spoiler Alert: If you don't want to know what happened, don't read the following.
From ESPN: The U.S. team had scored 100 points by the middle of the third quarter. It was that kind of night for the Americans.
Two Olympic marks and several U.S. records fell.
Carmelo Anthony scored 37 points, dropping 10 of 12 3-pointers, and the Americans rewrote the Olympic record book with a scintillating shooting performance and 156-73 win Thursday night, an epic blowout that seemed to send a message to the rest of the men's tournament field.
Anthony set the American Olympic mark for points in a game -- in less than three quarters. The U.S. also set the Olympic record for points in a game and points in a half (78). The Americans bettered the U.S. records as well for 3-pointers (26), field goals (59) and field-goal percentage (71).
Incredibly, they eclipsed the 100-point mark with 5 minutes left in the third.
And when Andre Iguodala hit a 3-pointer with 4:37 left, the Americans had surpassed the previous Olympic record of 138 points set by Brazil against Egypt in 1988. When the record was announced to the mesmerized crowd, all the players seated on the U.S. bench got up and slapped hands with coach Mike Krzyzewki and his coaching staff.  http://espn.go.com/olympics/summer/2012/basketball/story/_/id/8227877/2012-summer-olympics-us-men-hoops-breaks-record-3-pointers
The U.S. team scored 3.25 every minute of the game.  The team scored 29 3-point goals.  6 players scored in double digits and everyone scored at least 2 points.  Finally, to show it was a team effort, the team had 41 assists.
I think this team wants to prove they are the best Dream Team ever.

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