Team USA vs Lithuania game blog

[TE]

:downspin:

[PGDynasty24]

USA by 30,Coach K will keep it down after getting all this flack for running up the score.

[Venti Quattro]

This time they will have no reason not to run up the score.

[pass1st]

They still have the assist record to break

[DMC]

Coach K didn't run up the score. He doesn't even dress out.

[ElNono]

EDIT: shit, forgot they already played with Tunisia

[PatrickBateman]

when is tipoff?

830am central

[Reck]

I'll miss it.

Shit is too early.

The time differential is fucking shit up.

[jeebus]

game should be starting in a bit...

[Lincoln]

I love 8-4 shifts at work tbh

Gonna miss this shit unfortunately

[Darth_Pelican]

24-20, these white boys are hanging

[djohn2oo8]

Good game so far. Melo. Doing work while Westbrook is airballin everything.

[jeebus]

Turkey's greatest player sucks balls. lol Nyets

[Latarian Milton]

fun guess this time how many 3s melo is gonna rain tbh

[Darth_Pelican]

Melo still on fire, 10 pts in 1st quarter

[jeebus]

fun guess this time how many 3s melo is gonna rain tbh

fatty is still feeling it. however, the :cry refs :cry are bailing out Lithuania with stupid fouls

[Koolaid_Man]

I love 8-4 shifts at work tbh

Gonna miss this shit unfortunately


Is that the Burger King...Onion rings in the deep fryer shift :lol

[jeebus]

what shitty defense by the US

[Russ]

I don't see Javtokas.

[MannyIsGod]

Wow - what a shit show.

[Lincoln]

Score?

[Warlord23]

This game illustrates the suspect defense of the US team, a Lithuania team with little athletic ability is able to score easily on them.

[jeebus]

US 62
Lit 58

[Russ]

Score?

62-58 (bad guys leading)

[TE]

Just woke up. I see the score but wht the fk is going on? Why is LIT this close?

[jeebus]

Just woke up. I see the score but wht the fk is going on? Why is LIT this close?

Shitty defense, missed free throws, 3 balls aren't falling, shitty defense.

[Fpoonsie]

I wonder if these blacks could hit their FTs at a better rate if they changed the name to "No One's Lookin, Just Take It" Throws.

[Koolaid_Man]

Kobe elbowed that bitch in the throat and knee'd him in the dick all in one play - lol

[Koolaid_Man]

I wonder if these blacks could hit their FTs at a better rate if they changed the name to "No One's Lookin, Just Take It" Throws.

How does it feel to be on this site all the time riding NBA niggas dicks :lol

[Lincoln]

Koolaid, I smell pussu

[Lincoln]

Pussy*

[shyne]

Kobe sucks cock, get his old ass out of there.

[jeebus]

lol tie game

[Darth_Pelican]

tie game

[TE]

That's horrible fucking defense

[Pelicans78]

Lithuanian isn't a bitch made team compared to those faggots from Western Europe like Spain and France.

[TE]

:lol the miller kick

[shyne]

Their point guard has been pain in the ass for years now.

[Darth_Pelican]

:lol can beat 92 dream team but struggling to beat Lithuania

[TE]

Lithuania seems to almost want to foul TEAM USA on purpose, I wouldn't blame them.

[ElNono]

Kevin Love showing what he's made of... gingerbread

[jeebus]

:lol can beat 92 dream team but struggling to beat Lithuania

:cry but they're beating teams by 83 points!!! :cry

[shyne]

Melo thinks he's in MSG that fat fuck.

[Pelicans78]

The 92 Lithuanian team was better than the current one and the Dream Team stomped them.

[ElNono]

Melo looked great when Team USA was up 30+... is he a pussy choker?

[Darth_Pelican]

lazy fucking defense

[ElNono]

Deron gonna get his jersey retired in the UK with moves like that

[jeebus]

Melo looked great when Team USA was up 30+... is he a pussy choker?

Black Matt Bonner imo. 3 balls fall when playing no one and up 50 points. Game is close and against a good team and he shits the bag.

[Koolaid_Man]

Koolaid, I smell pussu


Your family would be ashamed of you knowing you spent tons of time on a message board dedicated to a black sport...basically riding a black mans dick as hard as you are...all you white boys should be ashamed of yourselves...

Love you some nigga dick I see...carry on :lol..keep posting

[MannyIsGod]

Just so much 1 on 1 and not nearly enough passing.

[MannyIsGod]

Melo looked great when Team USA was up 30+... is he a pussy choker?

Melo looks great now, TBH. Melo has consistently played extremely well in international ball.

[ElNono]

come on fellas... flip the coasting switch off...

[ElNono]

Melo looks great now, TBH. Melo has consistently played extremely well in international ball.

He looks good near the basket mostly... when you let him chuck, he keeps the other team in the game

[shyne]

Soft in middle

[Pelicans78]

These guys stink defensively.

[ElNono]

lol det defense

[jeebus]

shittiest defense ever

[MannyIsGod]

No interior D at all. Not sure what Durant is doing out there but none of it is constructive.

[ElNono]

weird to see KD so off too

[shyne]

Coach k should have recruited Robinson and Ewing.

[ElNono]

here comes the brickfest

[TE]

Durant missed that last three really badly...and c'mon, play some fucking defense

[ElNono]

Kobe gonna build them a nice brick house to dem Lithuanians

[MannyIsGod]

Part of this is on coach K for not playing an actual center when you are getting beat at the bucket.

[Ice009]

look at that all NBA defense from Kobe.

[Pelicans78]

Davis would do a better job defensively compared to Love and Melo.

[Hemotivo]

Wow - what a shit show.

:lmao

[Warlord23]

Soft team, trigger-happy from long-range, overplaying the passing lanes and not playing sound defense.

[MannyIsGod]

Jumper jumper jumper jumper jumper jumper

[jeebus]

Durant in OKC mode and bricking midrange jumpers

[TE]

Durant :lol

[MannyIsGod]

Oh now you play some fucking D and get an interior pass. Jesus fuck.

[MannyIsGod]

:lmao Chris Paul 3 point foul

[MannyIsGod]

He thinks he's playing an NBA game. :lmao :lmao

[Pelicans78]

:lmao Chris Paul 3 point foul

Still can't believe how he got that call against the Spurs a few years ago. That was bush league :lol

[MannyIsGod]

:lol international refs

[TE]

:lol wow bad call

[blkroadrunners]

Stupid fouls

[shyne]

Lebron thinks he's playing Mavs in finals again.

[jeebus]

lol what the fuck was that Lit?

[MannyIsGod]

Com'on bitches lets go!

[Sa_Spursfan20]

Just woke up...what the hell happened? How is Lithuania so close!? :lol

[TE]

There you go. Now play some D

[ElNono]

come on fellas... flip the coasting switch off...

[Koolaid_Man]

Durant in OKC mode and bricking midrange jumpers

How does it feel to be at home on your sofa..fist pumping and cheering for that nigga cock :lol

[Pelicans78]

Pathetic play by Sarunas Jackoff.

Nice break by the PGs.

[TE]

Just woke up...what the hell happened? How is Lithuania so close!? :lol

Perfect storm of Team USA bads

[Darth_Pelican]

122-5 record lol

[TE]

:lol durant

[Hemotivo]

wow bron

[midnightpulp]

If the USA loses this shit, it's on Kobe, one of the worst superstar Olympic players of all time. He's in Angola form today.

[Darth_Pelican]

Lebron

[TE]

Lebron 3!!

[blkroadrunners]

Lebron waking up

[jeebus]

Just woke up...what the hell happened? How is Lithuania so close!? :lol


Shitty defense, missed free throws, 3 balls aren't falling, shitty defense.

[Darth_Pelican]

Lebron

[TE]

Goddam Lebron

[ElNono]

Lebron gettin' it done

[blkroadrunners]

Nice pass by Sarunas

[Darth_Pelican]

huge rebound by cp3

[TE]

Dwill

[ElNono]

lol Kobe just watching

[MannyIsGod]

Fuck yeah.

[Darth_Pelican]

even with the win, the sense of invincibility is gone

[jeebus]

oh look, points in the paint

[ElNono]

Capt Lebron showing who's the alpha male

[TE]

Lebron is unguardable

[Pelicans78]

LOL Kobe being carried by Lebron and CP3.

[Hemotivo]

lol Kobe just watching

Lebron James!

[Koolaid_Man]

If the USA loses this shit, it's on Kobe, one of the worst superstar Olympic players of all time. He's in Angola form today.


How does it feel to be at home on your sofa..fist pumping and cheering for that nigga cock :lol

[Pero]

It's over.

[Hemotivo]

even with the win, the sense of invincibility is gone

nope

[MannyIsGod]

:lol Durant getting backed down to the goal and getting scored on by a Lithuanian scrub kida made my day.

[Pelicans78]

Durant is so soft.

[TE]

Lebron in Jordan mode

[blkroadrunners]

Lebron just doing what Lebron does

[MannyIsGod]

Lebron in beast mode. I usually hate him but hard not to root for him when he puts on the USA uniform.

[Pelicans78]

Lebron being the best player in the world again.

[Trill Clinton]

guess I'm the only one praying for an upset. fuck the usa.

[blkroadrunners]

Good game Lit

[TE]

Lithuania played about as great as they could

[TE]

:lol too bad the rest of the world doesn't have Lebron

[jeebus]

lol 10-33 on 3 point shots

[Banzai]

Spain won by a point against GB..anyone's gold at this point.

[Koolaid_Man]

guess I'm the only one praying for an upset. fuck the usa.


I only root against the USA in sports like Shooting and Archery because I suspect they're republicans...:lol

[ElNono]

When ARG beat this Lithuania team by 20, people were saying they were shit... Lithuania is a good team

[ElNono]

Spain won by a point against GB..anyone's gold at this point.

tbh, not really true. Team USA just needs to lose some of the extra baggage that's only there to watch the game... *cough*Kobe*cough*

[Trill Clinton]

I only root against the USA in sports like Shooting and Archery because I suspect they're republicans...:lol

lol

[Venti Quattro]

tbh, not really true. Team USA just needs to lose some of the extra baggage that's only there to watch the game... *cough*Kobe*cough*

:rollin 1/7

[MannyIsGod]

lol 10-33 on 3 point shots

Not really that bad, tbh.

[MannyIsGod]

Spain won by a point against GB..anyone's gold at this point.

No. Anyone's silver.

[024]

lebron showing again why he's the best basketball player in the world

[pass1st]

Lithuania is a good team, much better than that piece of shit Greek team that didn't qualify

[Clipper Nation]

:lol Kobrick
:lol Needing LeGold and Chuckmelo to carry him past Lithuania

[Indazone]

Would be funny as hell if Kirilenko and the Russians took it to Dream Team 2012. Not to mention that now France, Spain and Argentina will be motivated as hell.

“I think the American team is the best team in the world right now,” Andrei Kirilenko said. “But in a one-game situation, anything can happen. Every game is different. You might score 156 points in one game but the next game is different … and I’d love to play the U.S. for a gold medal, but we’re a long way from that. But you have to play the best to beat the best.”


Dream Team 2012 better than Dream Team 92 :lol

[galvatron3000]

Argentina fir gold, book it!

[pass1st]

Argentina fir gold, book it!

Manu with a broken hand, book it!

[ElNono]

Manu with a broken hand, book it!

Wouldn't surprise me, tbh... but now you're just hatin'

[pass1st]

Wouldn't surprise me, tbh... but now you're just hatin'

Naw, Argentina has a good shot at silver :tu

You and FkLA should dress up in the national Argentina colors

[ElNono]

Naw, Argentina has a good shot at silver :tu

Disagree, tbh. I don't know they'll medal this time around. PG hurting, Scola not playing well, and Manu is the only guy looking decent, but with a game every other day, TOSB is gonna creep in eventually.

They need to beat Nigeria today and qualify to the 2nd round because they gonna get raped by Team USA monday.

[DPG21920]

Ya, Arg does not have a good shot at a Silver, or a medal overall. They can do it, but at this point Gold for USA, Silver to Russia or Spain, Bronze a little more open.

[ElNono]

Argentina would be ecstatic with just medaling... any color... For a country with basically no basketball culture, any medal is major.

[DPG21920]

That excuse is kind of out the door now, El Nono. When you when a Gold and have several NBA players, you aren't hiding anymore in the basketball world.

[FkLA]

Argentina hasnt produced any young talent tbh. Their golden generation has aged, any medal would be a good way to go out for them imo.

[pass1st]

UTSA engineering :lol

[ElNono]

That excuse is kind of out the door now, El Nono. When you when a Gold and have several NBA players, you aren't hiding anymore in the basketball world.

It's no excuse, tbh. They're old, that's just fact. That's like pretending that Duncan's decline has nothing to do with being a TOSB. He's still good enough to help a great team, but he isn't the guy you can lean on to take you to the promised land anymore.

This Argentina team is similar in that respect. They're a great collection of veterans, whose biggest asset is the fact that they've played together for a long time, but they ain't running away from father time. Their realistic ceiling is a medal of any color.

[DPG21920]

I agree with that, that's reality. I was talking about the basketball culture comment.

[ElNono]

I agree with that, that's reality. I was talking about the basketball culture comment.

Well, that's true too. But perhaps somebody that actually lives in ARG can comment. A lot of people thought this team would make basketball flourish in Argentina, but it didn't happen. It's largely a soccer nation. Which is actually more reason to cherish the last few moments of this team.

[jeebus]

UTSA engineering :lol

[Pelicans78]

Speaking of Lithuania, I always forget to include Sabonis when it comes to curse of centers drafted by Portland. Does he join Walton, Bowie, and Oden due to his multiple injuries? He was a talented 1st round pick as well.

[fevertrees]

pathetic

[DMC]

Lebron's game was good for the Heat. He's going to be even more confident going into next year, but if the USA doesn't win gold, wow.

[DPG21920]

It would be a pretty massive upset if USA doesn't win - but teams with good bigs (Spain, Brazil) have the best chance (but even they could get blown out).

[DMC]

I only root against the USA in sports like Shooting and Archery because I suspect they're republicans...:lol
Olympic shooters and archers shoot nothing but their competition stuff. They don't take a gawdy balanced compound bow out into the woods, and those who hunt with a bow or with a rifle aren't gold medal level shooters. It wouldn't be interesting for them. I would suspect that a top tier archer would prefer fishing over shooting a bow on his days off.

[Reck]

LOL reading a couple of articles online and they're already shitting their pants saying this team is exposed and weak. :lol

[TE]

It would be a pretty massive upset if USA doesn't win - but teams with good bigs (Spain, Brazil) have the best chance (but even they could get blown out).

As every other contender for Olympic Gold, Spain is very vulnerable. If the standings stay the same, they will play a dangerous team in France. If they manage to get by, Russia (the team that just beat them) or Lithuania will be waiting for them. As Nono alluded earlier, Navarro's injury is not good. If Spain shoots poorly from three, they can be beaten with the right matchup.

[TE]

LOL reading a couple of articles online and they're already shitting their pants saying this team is exposed and weak. :lol

That's expected...its the media. But the reality is the USA almost beat themselves today. It's more about what Team USA didn't do than what Lithuania did.

[DPG21920]

Definitely - but with regards to teams who have the best shot at betting USA, teams with solid frontlines are highest on the list of concerns. Having said that, all these teams are beatable.

[TE]

Teams with big frontlines will obviously present unfavorable matchups.

IMO, I'm more worried about teams that are disciplined and don't turn the ball over. Teams like Argentina, Brazil, Lithuania, and Russia come to mind (in that order). While Spain does have the ability to run a set offense, they are sorely missing Rubio and Navarro (the uninjured version). To beat Team USA, a team must do the following (in order):
1. not turn the ball over
2. run a very disciplined offense
3. shoot well from 3
4. rebound the ball

In addition to the above, a team must also pray they get Team USA on a bad day (like today).

[Latarian Milton]

russ got some easy wins in group stage but still not convincing imho, US is guaranteed to win gold while arg & spain are locked for the #2 and #3 places. if russia got a male version of becky hammon then yup they might have a chance at the medals

[DPG21920]

Nothing about Russia's wins were easy. Did you watch the games?