Old Going For Gold: USA Men's Olympic Basketball - Next Up The Main Event vs France (8/10 @ 3:30pm ET)

[havoc]

Bam played great today. 16 pts and 7 rebs

 

[iamduval]

So +/- matter more than head to head? Or more than 2 teams can make it?

There’s 3 groups of 4 teams. So after the top 2 advance, the 2 “third place” teams are picked based on record, head to head, and +/-

 

[JackRoss]

Generally speaking, being politically correct and dare I say ‘phony’ is an American thing. We’re so used to it we probably don’t even recognize it. But yea the entire American sports media construct is ‘I ask you a softball questions and you answer with 1 of 4,5 canned responses (ie ‘both teams played hard’. If you color outside robin’s that’s when you become a news story

Americans are phony now? Man where is your family from?

 

[HollywoodP]

Youngins have no clue. Winning by only 17 is not dominance We used to beat teams by 30 minimum

The Dream Team was playing against cobblers and blacksmiths. Game is different now (because of the Dream Team). Dominance hasn't been the goal for awhile now. Gold is.

 

[tremonthustler1]

Shout outs to Robbie Hummel on the fast track to being the go-to basketball guy at NBC

 

[GoldenGlove]

So +/- matter more than head to head? Or more than 2 teams can make it from this group?

I think point deferential matters in the event that multiple teams have the same record

 

[MikelArteta]

They play PR next right? Another onslaught coming up

Puerto Rico the weakest team in the tourney

 

[bl2k8]

This 3 on 3 is wack they need to bush this shyt

 

[cartierhoe]

Puerto Rico the weakest team in the tourney

We're running over whoever regardless

 

[mastermind]

Youngins have no clue. Winning by only 17 is not dominance We used to beat teams by 30 minimum

Its dominance in 2024 when everyone has a couple of NBA players on their team.

Dream Team were playing people who wanted pictures after the game. That does not happen anymore.

 

[puggle]

South Sudan impressed me way more than Serbia.

 

[Braman]

The Dream Team was playing against cobblers and blacksmiths. Game is different now (because of the Dream Team). Dominance hasn't been the goal for awhile now. Gold is.

That’s how you end up losing

 

[DraymondT]

KD our best player by far. 14/3/3/2 on 5 shots after havin 23pts on 9 shots against Serbia comin off couch wit no exhibition practice lol

Bron stat paddin at the end is nikka had 6 turnovers too tryna do too much. He tryna make the All Tournament 5 man lineup so hard. KD just coolin and dominatin effortlessly they was down 6 to Serbia and tied against Sudan when KD checked in and broke the game to start the blowout

 

[VegetasHairline]

Puerto Rico the weakest team in the tourney

Someone has to finish in last place.

 

[Damnshow]

Puerto Rico the weakest team in the tourney

By far. There are decent teams missing from Olympics like Slovenia, Lithuania, Croatia, Italy, Latvia, Argentina. One of them could have easily made games more challenging. Puerto Rico are just happy they somehow made it.