The USA is ranked among the best in the basketball world. Sunday’s Olympic gold medal game against Serbia proved this right. This was made possible by Kevin Durant who is a well-known basketball player. He managed to put the game away single-handedly and also scored 30 points. USA team came close to losing the game but managed to win by 10 points or less in all their eight games. The USA basketball team was in competition with Australia, Serbia and Spain. The US had a very poor organization in terms of its defenders but Mike Krzyzewski who is their head coach managed to change this before the quarterfinals. Players like Andre Iguodala or Paul George are required to complement the guys who can score for the team.
Only teams that travelled through the U.S. on their way to Rio were able to play the game. This was after they fell victim to an exhibition schedule that was too easy. There is nothing that can be gathered from the U.S. team in the last 5 weeks even if they have so much talent. Teams that were not used to playing with one another have been playing their first elimination game less than a month after they began training. Two players from the U.S were back from the last Olympic team including four from the team that won the World Cup of Basketball in 2014. In 2014 Serbia’s team lost to the U.S. but the nine players returned to play in the Olympics this season.
The USA basketball chairman Jerry Colangelo has concerns about his team since they do not have enough time to prepare for the games. His major concern is that there are ten new players in the team but very inadequate time for them to prepare themselves. In this year’s Olympic there were two important basketball players; one was Durant and the other Carmelo Anthony who won three Olympic gold medals. The final games between Manu Ginobili and Tony Parker had their national team members in uniforms. There were 46 NBA players available in this year’s Olympics. This time round the US team which consisted of 12 members gave it their best and did not give up. They managed to go home with gold.
Anthony was satisfied that the US team won despite the difficulties the team members experienced in the game. He finished by saying that he was confident enough that his team would win even though the journey was not as easy as he thought.
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