Another expected cruise control win for the United States as they’re a 44-point favorite over Nigeria. Unlike Tunisia though, there’s a sniff of NBA talent on their roster with Al-Farouq Aminu and Ike Diogu on the team.
Still, absolutely no chance for the Nigerians and it’s more of a question as to how many lob dunks we get to see from Anthony Davis again.
The game is at 4:15 CT and on the NBC Sports Network (Cox 251, HD 716).
http://www.dailythunder.com/2012/08/team-usa-skunks-nigeria-156-73/#more-21476
Melo scored 37 points in 14 minutes...yikes! (Even Russ's excellent 21 in 14 is blown out of the water)
so today's game proves harden doesn't belong on this Olympic team
@ThunderCityUsa stop overreacting!smh
@Jokazc im not im just saying if it wasnt for injuries to other players and the refusal of other players to play on the olympic team harden woildnt have had a chance at the roster... Hea not a olympic caliber player just like hea not a max contract player
@Tricia_status @MisterJohnsonOKC @Jokazc K. Love is better than harden davis ia also there because of injuries and lack of sixe from the us my point is harden as much as we get excited for harden being on the olympic team we overrate him and hes there because of injuries and refusial of other better players to play for the olympic team him being on the olympic team is not because hes that good and deserves the spot its because of some outlying circumstances... Plus he got his ankles broken by a player on the nigerian team which is just sad smh cmon son
@MisterJohnsonOKC @ThunderCityUsa @Jokazc umm you could say the same thing about Kevin Love whose been brick city up until this point. You can say the same thing about Anthony Davis...
What exactly is your point? Are you still mad he missed his shots during the playoffs or something.
Cmon son.
@ThunderCityUsa @Jokazc Agreed.
@ThunderCityUsa Today's game only proved that Harden's beard is cursed and he should regretfully shave it, since there was an obvious correlation between the lack of facial hair and how good you shoot XD
@ThunderCityUsa Because he didn't have 15 3s? Okay.
@ThunderCityUsa *smh* dude.... seriously. todays game proved A LOT of things, but thats not one of them.
Hollinger tweeted earlier that the USA's 83 pt margin of victory was more than the total points scored by 10 out of the other 11 teams today. That is absolutely insane...
Westbrook only missed 1 of 8 shots for 21 points, the 2nd highest scorer for USA. Not bad.
Holy shit.
@Bryson ?
@MisterJohnsonOKC 83 point win...hahaha
Time to watch Thunder Girls Final on thunder website
38 assists. Geez
boxscore link?
@supreme35 http://espn.go.com/olympics/summer/2012/basketball/men/boxscore?gameId=1062
@blueRAP thank you :)
Remember this game, you'll never see anything like this again.
Melo should have said "I drank extra chocolate milk this morning"
@EatSleepThunder He should give a shout at the end of his interview
Harden...the only USA player who shot less than 50% this game....
@ERROR72 kinda sad
Not sure if I just watched the olympics, or my roommate playing 2k12 lol
@SoCal Thunder not sure if bobcats would loss to nigeria
Man what happened in the 2nd quarter, just 29 pts??
USA won by 83 points
What's wrong with you beard?
Harden still missing 3s smdh
Davis and Chandler are the only guys left without a 3 LOL
@OUThunderfan I think Davis will make 1
Nigeria is just giving up
@EatSleepThunder They gave up in the first
@Daddy V @EatSleepThunder they gave up in the first minute of the game
Free Joe Sharp
KD did another dance... lol
Free Coach K
so...no more KD
This is random, but can just imagine, if harden leaves in free agency, some thunder fan will make a song called "Now your just some beard that we used to know"
we made history
About to watch history made!
And I didn't see Iguodala making that history shot lol
As much as I hate him, I want to see Melo play
@SoCal Thunder that was hard? lol
@SoCal Thunder FREE MELO 2012
@EatSleepThunder @SoCal Thunder yes, dont pay him to make back some of the overpayment to him
Drifted by synergy site (something I don't do much) and found a few interesting tidbits about the Finals. Miami got 1.54 pts per transition opportunity. Thunder? Just 0.96. 0.96 would be the worst overall offense in the NBA. They totally sucked on the break both sides of the court.
Thunder post-up offense? 0.57 per possession. WOW.
Thunder "hand-offs"? 2.04 pts per possession but executed just over 1% of plays.
Look at first 2 Thunder plays of the first game- Westbrook missed 20 footer, Westbrook missed shot on 1 on 4 drive.
offensive game plan? breakdown right out of the gate.
i am sorry, the pitiful bobcats offense was just slightly worse.