Four down, and four more games to go before the U.S. men's basketball team collects gold medals.
What was supposedly to be a "close" game (relatively speaking, that is) turned into a wipeout of a very talented team from Spain tonight (this morning, our time; we're 15 hours behind the folks in Beijing).
The pressure defensive and transition offense got a helping hand from the U.S.'s jump shooting (12 shots were knocked in from behind the 3-point arc).
Can the U.S. lose (say, to either Spain or Greece, which it pummeled in pool play), or Argentina or Lithuania (the medal-round acton)?
Sure.
But the gap between the U.S. team and the rest of the field is even wider than most imagined before the teams arrived in China.
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