2008 Olympics Contest

[lakersdrew]

USA Perfect in Pool Play

106 USA (5-0) VS (1-4) Germany 57

GAME RECAP

Team USA may have already clinched the No. 1 seed in Group B and a date with Australia in the Olympic quarterfinals, but the U.S. didn’t want to give medal round contenders any hope on Monday.

Featuring more awesome highlight plays, extraordinary defense and a yearning desire for dominance, USA rolled past Germany, 106-57, to conclude the preliminary round undefeated (5-0) and infuse more fear into its potential future competitors.

Similar to its thumping of Spain on Saturday, the U.S. shot a blistering 11-of-26 from downtown and 55 percent from the field.

STATS SUMMARY:

Points:
Dwayne Wade – 10 (Combined 81)
LeBron James – 18 (Combined 79)
Kobe Bryant – 13 (Combined 63)
Dwight Howard – 22 (Combined 61)
Chris Bosh – 7 (Combined 44)
Carmelo Anthony – 4 (Combined 43)

Rebounds:
Chris Bosh – 4 (Combined 26)
Dwight Howard – 10 (Combined 25)
Carmelo Anthony – 6 (Combined 24)
LeBron James – 3 (Combined 22)
Chris Paul – 2 (Combined 16)
Kobe Bryant – 2 (Combined 12)

Assists:
Chris Paul – 3 (Combined 23)
LeBron James – 0 (Combined 22)
Deron Williams – 5 (Combined 19)
Jason Kidd – 3 (Combined 11)
Dwayne Wade – 1 (Combined 9)

Total Points:
101 vs China
97 vs Angola
92 vs Greece
119 vs Spain
106 vs Germany
515 TOTAL
With 3 games to go (hopefully) the pace is at 824 total points.

Next game: Australia (3-2)
(Australia 82 vs Croatia 97) (Australia 68 vs Argentina 85) (Australia 106 vs Iran 68) (Australia 95 vs Russia 80) (Australia 106 vs Lithuania 85)

If USA defeats Australia on Wednesday, the U.S. would play the winner of the Argentina-Greece matchup in the semifinals on Friday.

[RenegadeLonghorn]

Another nice recap.

[lakersdrew]

USA Advances to Semifinals

116 USA (HEADED TO SEMIFINALS) VS (ELIMINATED) Australia 85

GAME RECAP

Australia put up an early fight, but once again the U.S. Team was unstoppable at the Beijing Olympics.

After leading Australia by just one point after the first quarter, the U.S. built a 12-point lead at the half and began the second half on a 19-0 run as it coasted to a 116-85 victory in the quarterfinals on Wednesday.

STATS SUMMARY:

Points:
LeBron James – 16 (Combined 95)
Dwayne Wade – 8 (Combined 89)
Kobe Bryant – 25 (Combined 88)
Dwight Howard – 8 (Combined 69)
Carmelo Anthony – 15 (Combined 58)
Chris Bosh – 10 (Combined 54)

Rebounds:
Chris Bosh – 6 (Combined 32)
Dwight Howard – 7 (Combined 32)
LeBron James – 9 (Combined 31)
Carmelo Anthony – 5 (Combined 29)
Chris Paul – 7 (Combined 23)
Kobe Bryant – 5 (Combined 17)

Assists:
Chris Paul – 3 (Combined 26)
LeBron James – 3 (Combined 25)
Deron Williams – 3 (Combined 22)
Jason Kidd – 1 (Combined 12)
Dwayne Wade – 3 (Combined 12)

Total Points:
101 vs China
97 vs Angola
92 vs Greece
119 vs Spain
106 vs Germany
116 vs Australia
631 TOTAL
With 2 games to go (hopefully) the pace is at 841 total points.

Next game: Argentina (5-1)
(Argentina 75 vs. Lithuania 79) (Argentina 85 vs. Australia 68) (Argentina 77 vs. Croatia 53) (Argentina 97 vs. Iran 82) (Argentina 91 vs. Russia 79)
Quarterfinals: (Argentina 80 vs. Greece 78)

The U.S. will face Argentina in the semifinals on Friday. The winner of this game will meet the winner of Spain vs. Lithuania in the finals!

[RenegadeLonghorn]

Two games left! Not one player has run away with a statiscal category.

[lakersdrew]

USA One Win Away From Gold

101 USA (TO GOLD MEDAL MATCH) VS (ELIMINATED) ARGENTINA 81

GAME RECAP

Argentina did all it could to compete with the almighty U.S. Team. Its passion and courage without Manu Ginobili, who left in the first quarter with a foot injury, deserves to be applauded. But similar to the way the rest of the Olympic tournament has gone, the U.S. proved to be too strong, too athletic and too skilled. In its 101-81 triumph on Friday in Beijing to advance to the gold medal game, USA excelled at the free throw line (27-of-36) and also out-rebounded Argentina by 10.

STATS SUMMARY:

Points:
LeBron James – 15 (Combined 110)
Dwayne Wade – 12 (Combined 101)
Kobe Bryant – 12 (Combined 100)

Rebounds:
Chris Bosh – 10 (Combined 42)
Dwight Howard – 9 (Combined 41)
LeBron James – 5 (Combined 36)
Carmelo Anthony – 4 (Combined 33)

Assists:
Chris Paul – 2 (Combined 28)
LeBron James – 2 (Combined 27)
Deron Williams – 2 (Combined 24)

Total Points:
101 vs China
97 vs Angola
92 vs Greece
119 vs Spain
106 vs Germany
116vs Australia
101 vs Argentina
732 TOTAL
With 1 games to go the pace is at 837 total points.

The U.S. will challenge Spain (beat by 37 previously), which edged Lithuania earlier in the day, for the gold medal on Sunday at 2:30 a.m. ET.

Argentina, meanwhile, will take on Lithuania for the bronze at 12 a.m. ET.

[lakersdrew]

THIS IS WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE IT COMES DOWN TO!
10 of the 45 remain!
(other than freak occasion::ex: Bosh scoring 60 isn’t the most likely)

Renegadelonghorn – 1st, Kobe, Dwight, Paul, 705
nadeau01_johnson48 – 1st, Wade, Bosh, Paul, 787
Palantri – 1st, Wade, Dwight, Kobe, ?
Tennisdevils – 2nd, Wade, Dwight, Paul, ?
daBears34 – 1st, Wade, Dwight, Paul, 788
Neilbec – 1st, Wade, Anthony, Paul, 759
Key2win – 1st, James, Dwight, Paul, 859
UGAdawg - 1st, James, Dwight, Paul, 850
BrewTownBucksFan – 1st, Kobe, Dwight, Williams, 822
Lakersdrew – 1st, Kobe, Anthony, Paul, 823

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[RenegadeLonghorn]

Lebron currently has the point lead so I wouldn't be first. :)

[lakersdrew]

ur not in first i just made the lists based of still alive vs not... ur in the alive area and just happened to be first on the list =)

[RenegadeLonghorn]

ah my bad. Going to be an interesting final game!

[legend33]

Good luck everyone