Photo. Stephen Hill
See what happens when you hit your threes? Facing what was going to be their first big challenge (well, their second actually, since Brazil was supposed to be tough) of the FIBA Americas tournament, Team USA came out hot from beyond the arc against Argentina, jumped out to a big lead and never […]

Photo. Jonathan Mannion
Yeah, yeah, it’s supposed to be a team thing, but how’s Coach K gonna sit LeBron for the entire second half last night when ‘Bron could have easily broken the all-time USA Basketball single-game scoring record? The King was just unstoppable in the first half against Team Uruguay, dropping 26 points on 11-for-11 […]

You can be honest. When last night’s Team USA game against Puerto Rico started, you can admit that maybe you were just a little nervous (if you were rooting for Team USA). Puerto Rico has beaten Team USA before (in 2004 Team PR handed Team USA its worse loss ever in international comp), they have […]

Can’t handle the truth…
If the best anyone can do is nitpick a near 30-piecing, than we’d say Team USA is still doing alright. Mexico was the victim last night in another dunkfest (Kobe’s tomahawk on the one big man was crazy) to begin Phase 2 of pool play at the Olympic qualifying tournament. While the […]

Photo. Jonathan Mannion
If we’ve learned one thing from watching Team USA this summer, it’s this: the debate over who’s the best player in the world isn’t a debate anymore. Kobe Bryant has been the primary factor in why this year’s version of the U.S. squad is so much better than the last few versions. (No, […]

For whatever reason, we thought Team Canada would give Team USA some kind of run. Actually, we know what our reasons were: the Canadians have a legit NBA player on the roster (Sam Dalembert) plus a bunch of guys with major D-1/D-League experience (Olu Famutimi, Denham Brown, Levon Kendall, etc.), and after what we saw […]

Friday night we were up at Rucker Park for the Elite 24 high school all-star game. We haven’t been up to Rucker as much this summer and in year’s past, but last night’s game was definitely worth the trip. For starters, the park was yammed; like standing-room-only, kids-hanging-off-fences, Fat Joe-couldn’t-even-get-a-seat yammed. And with good reason, […]

Easy, breezy … ugly for Team V.I.
Game 2 of Team USA’s FIBA Americas tournament run — a.k.a. The Slaughtering until further notice — was way less interesting than the opener. While the Venezuela game was a rout, too, it was at least worth watching because it was the first time we’d seen the ‘07 version […]