Good news! Someone will be bringing gold back to Oklahoma City next season. Seeing as I’m an American though, I’d much prefer it to be the three Thunder players and not the one to do it. Plus, three golds in OKC is better than one, right?
The line on the gold medal game was set at 21 points for Team USA and I think that’ll probably end up being about right. There’s just too much firepower to hold this team down for 40 minutes. Too much talent. Too many weapons. Between Kevin Durant and LeBron James, this team just isn’t going to lose.
The only way it conceivably happens is if Spain plays a literally flawless game and the U.S. goes ice cold. Outside of that, I don’t see how Spain outscores Team USA for 40 minutes.
One interesting sidenote to it though is how much Serge Ibaka plays. He’s become an afterthought for the Spanish team playing as few as six minutes against Russia in the semifinals. Obviously Spain’s size is the major advantage for them and in the first half of the U.S.-Spain exhibition, Ibaka has a major impact. But Marc Gasol sat that game and he’s fallen out of favor lately.
Tip-off is at 9 a.m. CT on NBC.
http://i1242.photobucket.com/albums/gg534/AlwayzNToSumthin/Definitive%20Sports/TEAMUSA.jpg the gold medal stand imformal pose pic.
http://cdn3.sbnation.com/imported_assets/1156570/coachk_medium.gif at 65 he jumps higher than all of our centers
http://basketball.realgm.com/national/teams/1/United_States/stats/2012/1/Olympic_Games
http://assets.sbnation.com/assets/1290171/rudyguile.gif
What was with the big ass gold stuffed animal James Harden had after the game?
@DennisBerry
Olympic mascot. Also, I don't know why he chose to celebrate with it. #LondongamesSWAG?
http://www.dailythunder.com/2012/08/kd-leads-team-usa-to-gold-over-spain-107-100/
the REAL one
KD leads the USA and no doubt the star of the game is Lebron. Got to listen to the last half on radio, and KD steps them out at the beginning of the 4th and only takes what 1 more shot the rest of the game?
http://www.dailythunder.com/2012/08/kd-carries-team-usa-to-gold-again-107-100/
@cleandoe royce would NEVER put up a post like that. shesh man. thats way to conceded
@Legendary_Dork we'll see lol :D
@cleandoe Straight trollin'.
@cleandoe TROLL!
KD leads in pts and blocks
KD and Russ both have 27 FTs which is the 2nd best in team USA.Russ played less than 16 mins/per game
@shiki Kd was boss in this series. as he should of been.
guess royce is clearing the tears of happiness or something...wheres OUR FINAL OLYMPIC POST! lol
I only just realised cemitten has gone on 1 of his like tyrades lol
@cleandoe Keep up man.
That was a damn fine way to spend a Sunday morning. The timing of when that aired really worked out great.
@Old Man Game I missed the first half due to sleeping hard.
and now i OFFICIALLY DONT CARE ABOUT THE OLYMPICS ANYMORE!!!!!!! WOOO . bring on some thunder basketball :D
@Legendary_Dork And (unless you like Notre Dame football or the NHL) we can officially stop watching NBC for another 4 years.
http://i.minus.com/jmbmVUxrgXO9U.jpg greatness
@Lost Ones http://s1169.photobucket.com/albums/r518/cleandoe/?action=view¤t=kdusa.jpg
fix'd
@cleandoe disgusting
@Lost Ones teehee
Good Guy Kevin Durant actually sings the Anthem.
@cemitten
Harden was singing too . . . but he seemed like he might have been more in sync with the Christina Aguilera version.
I say this is all new fodder for the pregame video on ThunderVision . . .
RUSS and Bron immediately smell their flowers. Just shoved them straight into their face. I laughed
@cemitten Russ copying Serge
Kobe averaged 30, 6 and 6 in 2002 before Lebron was drafted..10 years later his still a top 5 player ..UNREAL!!..one day maybe Durant might have a career like that
@kennygee90 Kobe's a top 5 player?
@justin_mia @kennygee90 top 10
@justin_mia Yea he's getting worse at that
@justin_mia @blueRAP My tactics
@blueRAP Kobe's not even that clutch, especially in recent years. Throw up enough shots and you're going to make some.
@Bryson lol
@blueRAP @justin_mia He's good at getting away with rape too.
@justin_mia For the past few years, kobe has been good at 2 things, 1)bitching at the Lakers organization til they surround him with great players, 2) hitting clutch shots. That's about it.
@Lost Ones @kennygee90 Maybe on reputation, since he still makes All Defensive teams for some reason.
@Lost Ones @kennygee90 Debatable.
@justin_mia Not in 11-12
@blueRAP @justin_mia Or 10-11
@justin_mia @kennygee90 no.
lmao kd biting the gold metal
Our Golden Boys!
So much hardware comin back to OKC. Congrats to KD, Russ, Harden, and Serge!
Serge smiling when he got his medal made me happy.
@Arent I'm not watching, did he sniff it first?
@Arent ditto