USA Dreamteam vs Aust. Boomers

**Salty** · 08-20-2008 01:03 PM

We did mighty well till half time, then they just killed us

Went on like a 14-0 run at the start of the third, just can't compete with that.

**Dizaster** · 08-20-2008 01:13 PM

Like the commentators said, you have to play a damn near perfect game to beat USA, and we just couldn't hang on past half time...

They won by something like 35 points didn't they?

Right now our runner Craig Mottrum is running in the 5000 metres... He looks so weird, the giant white guy running along about 4 foot taller than all the little black kenyan runners.. He was right up there as well but the others are taking off from him now.

**Salty** · 08-20-2008 01:32 PM

haha I know, did you see that Aussie girl who got silver in the hurdles. Her interview afterwards was just priceless!

**CutMeMick** · 08-21-2008 03:15 AM

The Aus were suppose to be competative the US just played well...

**amat** · 08-21-2008 03:22 AM

Any one of the 12 man team can dominate any given game. I'm happy to see the US playing the best defense of maybe any basketball team in history if you think about it, they've dropped the all star game mentality. Not much analysis here, America is far, far, far and away the best basketball team in the world and I don't anticipate any rough patches from here. Larry Brown must be hiding in a hole right now.

**Dizaster** · 08-21-2008 08:01 AM

The US team is playing great indeed... They Kobe and L.J. are absolutely killing it as expected.. But the whole team plays well together, and there are as many brilliant assists as there are individual efforts, and it's keeping on top of the competition..

Australia did well to stay with him pretty much until 30 seconds before half time when they were only 5 points behind.... After that it was all the US... And that's just it, Australia was playing at 100% and was able to stay in it within 5 points, but as soon as they dropped off even 10% and the US poot the foot down a bit, it blew out to 20 points in about 3 minutes, and didn't come down from 30 points much after that...

I can't see any other team in the world keeping up with them for a full game.. They could match effort for a quarter or 2, but it's still a big gap between the US and any other team......

I didn't see that Interview Salty with the silver medalist, but I think I heard her on the radio and she sounded like a top chick so annoyed I missed it now... Have you been watching much of the rest of the olympics?? I was hoping to see a lot of weightlifting but I've only seen about 20 minutes of it which is annoying...

**Howlin Mad Missy** · 08-21-2008 08:08 AM

someone remind me why professionals are allowed to compete?

**Salty** · 08-23-2008 04:34 AM

Originally Posted by Dizaster

The US team is playing great indeed... They Kobe and L.J. are absolutely killing it as expected.. But the whole team plays well together, and there are as many brilliant assists as there are individual efforts, and it's keeping on top of the competition..

Australia did well to stay with him pretty much until 30 seconds before half time when they were only 5 points behind.... After that it was all the US... And that's just it, Australia was playing at 100% and was able to stay in it within 5 points, but as soon as they dropped off even 10% and the US poot the foot down a bit, it blew out to 20 points in about 3 minutes, and didn't come down from 30 points much after that...

I can't see any other team in the world keeping up with them for a full game.. They could match effort for a quarter or 2, but it's still a big gap between the US and any other team......

I didn't see that Interview Salty with the silver medalist, but I think I heard her on the radio and she sounded like a top chick so annoyed I missed it now... Have you been watching much of the rest of the olympics?? I was hoping to see a lot of weightlifting but I've only seen about 20 minutes of it which is annoying...

Yeah I have been watching a lot of it, I love watching sport fullstop so the olympics is like my dream television. Yeah there isn't much weightlifting on really only the highlights most of the time.

US dominated Argentina last night, although without there star Ginobli. I think the US look a lot better with Kidd out there running point against the zone. So much better ball movement with him and they just destroy it, not much you can do to stop them. The scary thing is Lebron had a bad night last night and they still killed them. I'm looking forward to the boxing gold medal matches, just hoping the scoring will be good for a change.