The United States men's basketball team ushered in a warm-up match with the South Sudan men's basketball team, and the two sides played a wonderful matchup throughout the game, which can be said to have expected that the United States men's basketball team would win, but did not expect the process of the game and the final result to be like this. They were once beaten by the opponent to play a wave of offensive small climax and fell behind by double digits, although the score was overtaken in the third quarter, but they never opened the lead Beijing business difficulties and won the game. United States men's basketball team narrowly won by 1 point! Narrowly capsized, and the data tells you who is the key to winning.
Schedule review: The United States men's basketball team quickly entered the state at the beginning of the game, opening with a wave of 8:0, but then the South Sudan men's basketball team hit three consecutive three-pointers from beyond the three-point line, and after a wave, the gap narrowed, and the two sides began to enter a tug-of-war score alternately. In the second quarter, United States had problems on both ends of the floor, and a wave of South Sudanese Nana quickly stretched the lead to double digits. In the third quarter, they relied on a 16-0 shockwave at the end of the quarter to complete the score contrast. However, in the final quarter, the South Sudan men's basketball team was still able to bite the point difference, and the two sides were deadlocked until the final critical moment, James held the ball and broke through to the layup to complete the score overtake, and finally White and Edwards contributed on the defensive end to help the team lock up the victory. In the end, the United States men's basketball team narrowly defeated the South Sudan men's basketball team by 101:100 points.
It has to be said that the South Sudan men's basketball team played an excellent performance in this game, and was able to match the intensity of the United States men's basketball team on both offensive and defensive ends, and their shooting rate from beyond the three-point line once exceeded 50%, and finally there was a 42.4% three-point shooting rate; Although they lost the game, they are likely to be the dark horses in the next game.
The United States men's basketball team almost turned the tables in this game, after all, they are considered to be one of the winners of the men's basketball gold medal in this Olympic Games, they have a luxurious enough squad and strength, but in this warm-up game, they faced the South Sudan men's basketball team, they almost overturned. James finished with 23 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists on 9-of-13 shooting throughout the game, and made wonderful contributions in key moments of the game. In the final quarter, he scored five consecutive points to help the team withstand the impact of the South Sudan men's basketball team, stabilize the situation, and in the final attack, he broke through the layup to complete the quasi-final kill to overtake the score. The 39-year-old James still has the ability to make a final decision, and his performance is also a direct response to Embiid's previous remarks, Embiid previously said that James is old, but he scored the highest points in the team in this game. It was the team that was able to win, and the key was the primary contributor to pulling Cole out of the room.
The second is the thick eyebrows, the thick eyebrows who came off the bench continued their performance on the defensive end, although the shooting rate on the offensive end was not too high, but there were still double-double data of 15 points, 11 rebounds and 2 blocks in the whole game, of which 6 were frontcourt rebounds; His defense is also an indispensable part of the United States men's basketball team, after all, it can be seen throughout the game that there are still big problems on both ends of the offensive and defensive ends. In the final moments, Xiaobai's contribution on the defensive end and Edwards' steals were crucial, although Xiaobai did not score, but had 3 points and 5 rebounds.
Although the United States men's basketball team won the game, it was a wake-up call for them, first of all, in the face of the South Sudan men's basketball team won by one point, it was obvious that they had problems at both ends of the offensive and defensive ends, so that the opposite side maintained an efficient three-point shooting rate throughout the game, South Sudan hit 14 of 33 three-point shots in the whole game, shooting rate of 42.4%, on the other hand, the three-point shooting rate of the United States men's basketball team was not ideal, and only 7 of the 28 three-point shots were hit. For them, although Durant still hasn't returned, he is the team's biggest killer on the international stage. However, judging from the current performance of the Dream Team, it is not certain that they want to win the championship, and Kerr needs to think carefully about how the team should lay out the lineup next.