The WorldBeaters

Well no real surprise here.  The "B-Team" rolled through the best the world could offer and brought home shiny gold medals.  It had been 16 years since America won the gold at the World Championships, but the drought is over as the Americans  cruised  over Turkey 81-64.   Its good to see that America is once again dominant on the world basketball stage.

The Americans pulled out a tough nail biter that had a superb finish, boosting their record to 3-0 in the FIBA World Basketball Championship.  Durant led all scorers with 27 and Chauncey Billups had 15 points including a huge running bank shot to put the U.S. up by four with under a minute left.  Brazil scored quickly to cut the lead to two and after a Billups shot missed, they got rebound and guard Marco Huertas was fouled on his way to the basket.  He missed the first free throw and purposely missed the second.  Huertas got his own rebound and passed to Barbosa who missed a difficult shot as time expired.   The Brazilians hung tight for most of the game and were actually leading for what seemed to be all of the first half.  Why were the Brazilians able to keep the game so close?  Well they can shoot the 3 ball really well and they were causing turnovers.  Plus they have NBA players on the squad, Leandro Barbosa , Anderson Varejao (DNP). ...

Hi World,   Team USA had another impressive showing in the World Basketball Championship by cruising to a big win over Slovenia.  The Americas were led by Kevin Durant 's easy 22 points and Kevin Love 's double double (10 points and 11 rebounds).  The second half was tough for Slovenia as they could not handle the athleticism of Rose, Westbrook and Stephen Curry. There was a small lapse in energy in quarter number two, but other than that we looked good.  Next up: Team USA vs. Brazil, today at 2:30 est.