US Basketball Olympic Team Routs Nigeria

US Basketball Olympic Team Routs Nigeria

The basketball game of US Olympic team against Nigeria has ended with a score of 156-73, in favor of the US team.

The players of US team are not boasting or sending message to Dream Team after their fantastic game. However, they have sent a clear message to the world, and that is, they have huge dreams than the original US team in 1992 and skills that will make all their dreams possible.

Carmelo Anthony of US Olympic team said that the team does not think about the Dream Team, instead, they are doing their own thing and they play for themselves.

Anthony gained a score of 37 points with 10 out of 12 shooting attempts from 3-point range. All the American players have scored and the US team got 59 out of 83 shots that are 71% of their attempts.

Mike Kryzyzewski, coach of the American team, stated that the shooting performance of the team was just incredible. Also, he added that US Olympic team is way far better than any teams that he had coached before.

Kobe Bryant, who scored 16 points, said that it was great that the team is now part of Olympics history. He also acknowledged the teams that did a great job and posted big scores.

Posted by Andre Monohan on Friday August 03 2012, 10:57 AM EST. Ref: Yahoo. All trademarks acknowledged. Filed under Featured News. Comments and Trackbacks closed. Follow responses: RSS 2.0