The United States men's basketball warm-up game ushered in a contest with the South Sudan men's basketball team, and this game can be said to be completely unexpected. As strong as the United States men's basketball team was hit in the second quarter 1 time by a 15-4 shockwave trailing by double digits. In the third quarter, they gradually got into the groove, and responded with a wave of tassels to complete the overtake, and finally James helped the team win the game and refused to cause an upset. However, being beaten at one point in the game also reflects that the United States men's basketball team currently has a big problem. United States men's basketball team starts Holiday , James, Embiid, Booker and Curry. The South Sudan men's basketball team starts Gabriel, Carrick Jones, Omote, Shayok, and Kuhl.
After the game began, James cut in to get rid of the defense and hit a layup, Booker countered for a layup, and the United States men's basketball team opened the game with an 8-0, and Omot broke through the left high jumper to finally open the deadlock. Embiid hit a rebound, Labriel scored a direct outside three-pointer, and after hitting three three-pointers in a row, the South Sudan men's basketball team quickly approached the score. Curry responded with three points, and the two sides began to fall into a tug-of-war and the score alternately rose, and after Deng played 2+1, South Sudan tied the score and once completed the comeback, and at the end of the first quarter, they held a two-point lead.
At the beginning of the second quarter of the game, South Sudan came up and continued to hit the outside, and played a wave of 5:0 at the beginning, Edwards broke through to the layup, and Omot hit another three-pointer when he came back, and the South Sudan men's basketball team, which had entered the state, played a wave of 15:4 impact, quickly extending the lead by double digits, Jones played 2+1 to continue to expand the lead, but fortunately, Embiid hit the free throw line to alleviate the embarrassing situation for the team. It's just that although the offensive end of the United States men's basketball team recovered in the second half, they were still in a situation of trailing points, Embiid hit consecutive kills, and their overall three-point shooting was not good When there were three minutes left in the second quarter, they shot 11 three-pointers. After a timeout, he hit Yorke to continue his three-point shot, James hit two free throws, and the score went up alternately, and the United States men's basketball team trailed by 14 points after halftime. It should be mentioned that at halftime, the highest score on the United States men's basketball side was James's 12 points and 5 rebounds, while the South Sudan side blossomed more points and shot with excellent efficiency from beyond the three-point line, shooting 61.1% overall compared to 41.6% for the United States men's basketball team.
In the second half, Tatum broke through 2+1, and the offensive end of the United States men's basketball team began to recover, and after playing a wave, they narrowed the margin to single digits. Edwards hit a three-pointer, the second three-pointer of the game for the United States, and a 12-4 shockwave chased the deficit to just four points. But here Marouaki hit another three-point shot to help the team stabilize the situation, Shayok can chase three points, I have to say that South Sudan's outside shooting rate is really high, so far 9 of 18, as high as 50% shooting rate. Curry received the ball on the right side and hit a three-pointer, James made a steal and counterattacked a dragon 2+1, Booker chased down a three-point shot, and in just over two minutes, they played another wave of 11:0 to tie the score. Then there was another wave of 5:0 to complete the score of the third quarter of the game, and they completed the overtake with a performance of 37 points in a single quarter in the third quarter.
In the final quarter, Embiid scored a basket, Jock hit a three-point shot to stop the bleeding for the team, and Gabriel made a basket and hit a three-pointer to help the team bite the score. James also scored three points in color, grabbed the rebound and counterattacked, and scored five points in a row to help the team stabilize the situation. Jones hit a breakaway layup and had a triple-double of 11 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, and they scored four points in a row to chase back to just one point. Thick eyebrows under the basket, inside consecutive points to stabilize the situation, Shayok continued to hit three points, again chased 4 points to maintain the suspense of the game, Saul bottom corner three-point shot to complete the score overtake, the game left 20 seconds to directly stop the United States men's basketball team. At the critical moment, James broke through to score a layup, and at the critical moment, the old Zhan was stable, and the thick eyebrows were key to protect the frame, and finally the United States men's basketball team won the game thrillingly to complete the reversal and refused to upset.
The outcome of this match was expected, but the process was completely unexpected. The South Sudan men's basketball team once took a double-digit lead with excellent outside shooting and held the advantage for a long time. Although the United States men's basketball team overtook the score with its performance in the third quarter, it was always unable to pull away from the lead and was deadlocked by the opponent. The United States men's basketball team still exposed a lot of problems in this game, such as this game they once lost accuracy on the outside, the team's defensive performance was not ideal, for the United States men's basketball team in this state they really want to say that the gold medal is stable? Obviously unrealistic. I don't know if Kerr will make further changes to the starting lineup next.
United States men's basketball statistics: James 23 points, 5 rebounds and 4 assists, Curry 12 points and 3 rebounds, Holiday 8 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists, Embiid 14 points, 5 rebounds and 2 assists, Booker 5 points, thick eyebrows 15 points and 5 rebounds, Edwards 11 points, Tatum 9 points. South Sudan men's basketball statistics: Gabriel 11 points, Shayok 24 points, Jones 15 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists, O'Ann 9 points, Saul 14 points, Joel 7 points.