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Recapping a Historic Olympics for Men's & Women's Team USA
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8/9/2024
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Always good to have Kyle Irving on Kyrie's cousin from the Sporting News covers the basketball
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for us at the Olympics Kyle good to see you again buddy I thought that we were just talking
00:18
about the game that game was epic yesterday and I frankly I mean we'll talk about the
00:24
game with France in a minute but let's go back to what you thought were some of the
00:29
differences you know I thought and beads 19 was heavy I thought is lit enthusiasm late
00:36
in the game like you know getting emotional about Jokers travel getting fired up diving
00:45
on the floor the game was very violent away from the ball they weren't calling anything
00:51
away from the ball and I think he liked that and I thought Durant's defense when he finally
00:57
came in the game and contributed at the end was huge I thought Booker's three was huge
01:03
at the top of the key off of the foul on Joker after the kit you know KD three count the
01:09
three and the foul and the ball and the three from the top of the key those were some of
01:15
the keys for me and obviously curry shooting was phenomenal yeah there was also that stretch
01:20
where Steph had a fast break layup LeBron went down for a fast break layup and then
01:24
Steph had a steal and had another fast break layup and like right then and there it felt
01:28
like this is what we've been waiting for we've been waiting for LeBron and Steph to be teammates
01:32
they were the two that stepped up in that moment like you said I thought Joel and beat
01:35
on the offensive end you know really gave them some energy at the beginning of that
01:39
fourth quarter he still had a couple lapses on defense that led to open Serbia threes
01:43
but as you mentioned I mean that team was you know shooting over 50% from three for
01:47
the majority of the game and then all of a sudden it's not like they stopped getting
01:50
good looks they just stopped hitting the open looks which was pretty shocking they really
01:54
missed an opportunity to put the USA away there but you know the other play that sticks
01:58
out in my mind is Carmelo Anthony's on the sidelines he's kind of coaching him up Kevin
02:03
Durant has the ball at the top of the key he gets the Stephen Curry sets on the screen
02:07
he gets the switch that he wants and Kevin Durant is at the top of the key with USA up
02:12
by two points on an island and I don't think there's anybody in the entire country that
02:16
didn't expect that shot to go down we've just seen him hit that high hesitation crossover
02:21
so many times straight into a confident smooth pull up jumper to put the United States up
02:26
by four and really put the game away so there were a lot of signature moments and like you
02:30
said that was fiery you know you'll get just screaming on the sidelines I've never really
02:33
seen him like react like that in an NBA game Joel Embiid was getting all fired up you could
02:38
tell LeBron kind of kicked it into another gear it really had all the makings of what
02:42
felt like an instant classic I've never seen Bogdanovich play like that in my life like
02:49
I've never like you've seen him hit shots in the NBA he looks like a guy that in the
02:55
NBA to me just a guy that's getting paid a lot of money to shoot threes and he doesn't
02:59
care he just goes through the motions in my opinion but I gotta tell you he played that
03:05
game like he was going to the electric chair I mean my man was all out playing and he was
03:11
I think he was really bummed out when they lost like he legitimately looked like he needed
03:17
a shrink like he was crying after it was over I mean that guy played his ass off and had
03:23
a 20-piece and he had some huge shots and then I just couldn't believe in the fourth
03:27
how they missed nine straight threes after they had hit so many off-screen perfect off-screen
03:33
threes like they were getting the cleanest looks and their ball movement for the open
03:39
man they were doubling Joker at times and leaving a guy wide open every time and you
03:43
know it's a kiss of death with that guy Joker when he finds the open man and they were like
03:47
shooting corner pocket switch all net splash threes I couldn't believe they went cold Kyle
03:54
honestly yeah that's why the one where you know you and I was talking to you about it
03:59
before Dobritsch was wide open on the right wing Serbia was I think up by four points
04:03
with like two and a half minutes left he had been hitting those all night the balls in
04:06
mid-flight and I'm like wow they're really going to lose this game and then he somehow
04:09
missed and that kind of again catalyzed the United States comeback but you know to your
04:13
point that's kind of the you know the risk that you play against Nikola Jokic like he's
04:17
so gifted as a passer that if you double-team him he's going to find the open man like a
04:21
sixth sense it's incredible there was a play in the fourth quarter also where I think it
04:25
was LeBron James came to double from the baseline someone cut it might have been Bogdanovich
04:29
cut baseline and Jokic before LeBron could even get there on the double team through
04:32
a head pass behind his head right to Bogdanovich for an easy layup but you know bogey was a
04:37
killer yesterday he looked it seemed like he gave himself a little bit of like added
04:40
motivation he was talking trash with Melo courtside and you know I know Melo was probably
04:45
letting Serbia hear it back in 2016 when the United States beat them in the group stage
04:49
and then smoked him by 30 points in the gold medal match and bogey was on that team as
04:54
well so maybe that's why he had a little bit more oomph to his game but you know like you
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said he was a huge huge reason why they had built the lead they did and then you know
05:02
those are real tears at the end like Serbia has to feel like they really let that one
05:06
slip away and that's where you know the United States like with the momentum that they're
05:09
carrying going into the gold medal match I don't know how they could you know fall flat
05:13
on their face after a game like that it was you know for me it's like the 80 hockey team
05:21
they won the game against Russia and then they had to turn around and win another game
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and they had to come from behind in that game too I feel like they have to go finish
05:32
the deal like obviously there's one more step tomorrow against the home team playing on
05:38
their home court in front of their fans in Paris how will they handle the French and
05:45
Wembanyama yeah I think that's you know this is a France team that is surging all of a
05:51
sudden they didn't look very good at the beginning of the tournament they made that lineup change
05:54
where Rudy Gobert you know originally we thought it was due to an injury he had that
05:57
finger thing that he was dealing with in the first round against Canada but turns out as
06:02
you know they continue to move on it was a head coaching decision from Vincent Kalei
06:05
to you know just bench the four-time defensive player of the year in favor of playing a faster
06:10
more versatile lineup so now we're gonna see the United States have to try and match up
06:15
with you know Wemby is the focal point of that team but you know they have to really
06:19
take advantage of France's lackluster guard play Frank Nino Lachina is not going to get
06:24
the job done against guys like Stephen Curry against guys like Anthony Edwards Devin Booker
06:28
who's played well you know Isaiah Cordonnier is someone who has been shooting the lights
06:32
out in this tournament so far but he's not really a known scorer I saw someone tweet
06:36
the other day that he only scored 18 or more points three times the entire Euroleague season
06:41
he's done it twice already in back-to-back games in the knockout round for France so
06:44
you know if you put a hand in that guy's face he's gonna start missing shots and then with
06:47
Wemby I'm curious see how they defend them defend him because they could throw multiple
06:51
bodies at him I'm sure LeBron's gonna get a look at him I'm sure Bama to bio with that
06:55
second unit is going to get a look at him maybe this is where Jason Tatum could come
06:58
back into the rotation and you know maybe disrupt one be a little bit but you know he's
07:03
the focal point of that team and if you can slow down him then you know they're gonna
07:06
have to really rely on the other guys to step up and that's why I like USA to get the job
07:09
done so you know one of my favorite parts of that game yesterday was when LeBron was
07:14
on Joker late and he was banging with him in the low block and Joker was banging and
07:19
giving him the shoulder and then he did the muscles and then really he really banged with
07:25
him like 68 to 60 like you cannot just push me around brother like he pushes people around
07:31
and he usually goes right around and bead with quickness he's got that hook spin but
07:36
he couldn't do it against LeBron he was banging it they eventually called the foul but LeBron
07:41
was he wanted all the smoke what about the ladies Kyle a blowout win today over Australia
07:47
Brianna Stewart was incredible I thought copper played great young Wilson they all
07:53
played great all had double figures they're waiting for the to find out who they're gonna
07:59
play in the gold medal game but they look unstoppable yeah they're really impressive
08:04
and you know I'm really impressed with Cheryl Reeve who you know made that switch she gave
08:07
Diana Taurasi you know her her time in the spotlight as she's going for you know another
08:12
gold medal in the most by women Olympian I think I believe in USA basketball history
08:16
breaking the tie with Sue Bird but you know she she could have stuck with the same starting
08:21
lineup they've won 60 straight games she didn't have to do all that much but she decided to
08:25
move Diana Taurasi from the starting lineup insert Jackie Young starting lineup and Jackie
08:29
Young has been incredible in back-to-back games a huge reason why the ball is moving
08:33
the way that it has been why they USA has been able to score as easily as they have
08:37
been and then I talked about it last time I was on here but the biggest difference is
08:40
Asia Wilson and Brianna Stewart like those two are so big and so athletic and so mobile
08:45
that other countries just don't have bigs that are versatile enough to keep up with
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those two Asia Wilson had you know another four blocks and two steals today like you
08:54
said Brianna Stewart was making the wheels turn on offense that's a team that again 60
08:58
straight wins they're going for a 61st straight win in an eighth consecutive gold medal it
09:03
just doesn't even sound right to say that's just a different level of dominance.
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