USA Dominates Brazil in Olympic Basketball Quarterfinals
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00:00American dominance on the hardwood yesterday in quarterfinal action at the men's olympic basketball
00:06Tournament the united states and brazil the fourth game of a quadruple header of quarterfinal games
00:12Yesterday over in paris and the united states rolled all over the brazilians
00:1912287 the final doing math live in your head on national television can be difficult
00:25I said a 45 point victory a 35 point win for the united states
00:30But their largest fortune of victory in their four games so far over in the olympic games
00:35Covering drs yesterday as a 26 and a half point favorite
00:39We thought without point differential being important like it was in group play. Maybe we would see the total state under
00:47184 and a hook the american score 122
00:50So it skied over that total yesterday, but us
00:54Perfect on to the semi-final round and a matchup against serbia covering yesterday as a 26 and a half point favorite against brazil
01:03Yeah, the only anomaly you could say probably was that third quarter where brazil scored 35 points outside of that 21 15 and 16
01:10Easily handling that brazilian team that we were worried about the physicality, but the physicality came from the us side
01:16They were tremendous and also sometimes you take a look at the best teams that you could possibly assemble
01:20Which again team usa is that in the olympics?
01:22No surprise if they're going to win the gold medal
01:24But if they're going to bring their a game like shooting 58 from the floor and close to 50
01:29From three point range, you're not going to come close to team usa
01:32And yes, we were concerned with okay
01:34Once you get to the knockout stage survive in advance who cares you've been by 5 10 15 or 20 points
01:39Just get out of there with the victory
01:40It was apparent early where team usa 33 points in the first quarter 30 points and by the by the second quarter
01:46So it gives you 63 at the break easily running away with this game overall and you love the balance that you see from team
01:52Usa understandably if the game was closer, maybe the rotations would have been short and everybody doesn't get to play 15 plus minutes
01:58But it didn't matter who was on the court team. Usa was cooking from all angles, ben