Team USA advanced to semifinals, waits for Argentina

 

Team USA hasn’t had a true rival yet at the Beijing Olympics; in fact, the press is just waiting for the end of each game in order to check on how great the disparity will be between each team’s scores, as the Americans have won by wide margins every single match in their quest for the gold.

Their last victim is Australia, a team that gave Team USA a hard time a few days ago in a warm out for the Olympics on a game that finished with just 11 points of difference, but today the Australians fell to the Americans by 116 to 85 and were knocked down of the tournament.

Now the true test comes for Team USA as they advanced to the semifinals and their next rival is almost with certainty Argentina, Manu Ginobili’s team, and the one who won the gold back in 2004, the year when the Americans had to conform with the bronze medal.

I don’t think the Argentineans will beat Team USA, but the possibility, even though its weak, exists indeed, so the Americans might as well look at this match as a way to completely forget how embarrassing they have ended on previous Olympics meetings.