Dream Team 2012 Scores 156 to Shatter Olympics Record: Did USA Hoops Run Up Score?
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2012/08/03 18:00:00
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USA's 2012 Dream Team made 46 three-point attempts in their rout of Nigeria. America beat Nigeria by 83 points -- marking the final score of the game 156-73. Carmelo Anthony scored 37 points with 10 three-pointers. "It was just one of them nights where as a unit we had it going," Anthony said. "It could have been anybody out on the court playing against us."
ESPN.GO.COM reports:
ESPN.GO.COM reports:
The U.S. men's Olympic basketball team stayed undefeated in record-setting fashion, getting 37 points from Carmelo Anthony and breaking the Olympic mark for points in a game in a 156-73 rout of Nigeria on Thursday night.
Read More: http://espn.go.com/olympics/summer/2012/basketball...
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+7They had 3rd String out, if you watched the game, they made a 3 every possession. 72% field goals. Anthony made 10/12 on 3s to break the record, played 12 mins. The coach took him out then. No fast breaks in the 2nd half. I mean the team couldn't shoot that will wide open in practice. The Best game a team has ever had in the history of the sport. 50 points in the 1st Quarter!!! I mean, what can a team do, shoot at the wrong basket??? How bout put the fab 5 of women gymnastics come in and play? or have Nigeria have 10 players on court?
Whether you think it a good thing or a bad thing is a different question entirely.
I personally couldn't name one cricket or rugby player. I can name you some soccer players though and I watch soccer just as much as I watch rugby and cricket.
As for the men you named, I know who Jordan is, but that's just because we get American TV over here. I've heard Bryant's name, but I didn't know he played basketball, and the other man, I've never heard of.
I mean no offence by this. It's just something I've noticed many times over the years.
I've noticed that Americans tend to ignore the sports that the rest of the world plays e.g. football, the most popular sport ever. So it's no surprise that you don't know about cricket, which is played by many more people than any American sport. What you don't realise is that the rest of the world tends to ignore your sports!
I didn't know we sold Jordan sneakers over here, and, to be honest, I don't even know what sneakers are without Googling it.
As for basketball players, my respect for them is very limited; they're men of slightly about average sporting ability who just happen to be freakishly tall! I probably have more sporting ability than many pro basketball players.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
to quote " In United States and Canada, it is considered poor sportsmanship to "run up the score" in most circumstances [...] The term and concept are not common elsewhere in the world."
And notice how there is only an English version of the article, lol
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