Team USA 122 - 87 Brazil summary, stats and highlights | Olympic Men’s Basketball
IT'S ALL OVER!!! TEAM USA DOMINATES FOR A FOURTH STRAIGHT GAME AND ARE ON THEIR WAY TO THE SEMIFINALS!
Edwards jacks a three ball and that's going to be the end of the ball game!
Caboclo turns in the paint and lays it up and it.
Adebayo follows up his own shot and tips it in.
Meindl hits the three ball from the corner.
Edwards strings a three ball from the wing, and the only story now is how much the US will win by.
Caboclo with the easy jam down low as the pressure has eased off from Team USA.
Edwards to the line after the foul on Gui Santos and he hits both FTs.
Caboclo hits the fade away jumper from outside the lane.
Timeout USA, not exactly sure why with a 32 point lead. Maybe Kerr just wants to get some fresh legs in the game.
Edwards finds Bam at the top of the key and he drills the three ball!
Durant finds Adebayo with a behind the back pass and he smashes it home on a Bam Jam!
Tatum to the line and he hits one of two after the foul on Benite.
Gui Santos on the reverse lay up in transition.
Haliburton on the court for the first time and he fakes a pass to create the space for his lay up on the right side.
Benite pulls up from the elbow and the veteran hits the mid range jumper.
Davis takes a dribble to the bucket, gets the lay up to go and the foul on Dias. FT is good.
Santos jacks the three ball with the shot clock winding down and hits it!
Durant from the elbow and he drills the mid range jumper. He's got 11 on the night off the bench.
KD to the line after a technical foul call on Brazil for arguing a foul and he hits it.
Edwards off the dribble and he uses the glass from outside the lane.
Edwards slashes down the lane and throws it down with two hands off the feed from Davis to start the 4th quarter.
WE ARE AT THE END OF THE THIRD QUARTER AND TEAM USA IS JUST 10 MINUTES AWAY FROM THE SEMIS!
De Paula to the line after the foul on White and he hits both FTs.
Caboclo drills the jumper from the mid range, and he's got 24 points on the night to lead all scorers.
Davis was left alone on the wing and he pulls up and drills it! Everyone is getting into the action today in Paris!
De Paula hits a three ball and at the moment that's the only thing Brazil can do to try to get back in this game.
White drills a three ball and the storm never stops with this team. Brazil are starting to look helpless, if they haven't already.
De Paula to the line after the foul on White and he hits both FTs.
Caboclo drills a three ball from the wing, and right now it's his show for Brazil.
Durant is starting to catch fire. He hits his third straight shot this time from the short wing.
KD with the slash to the bucket and Davis found him for the lay up.
Caboclo with the lay up down low after the dish from Meindl.
Booker in the corner and he drops the three ball! He's inching close to 20 if he doesn't have it already.
Caboclo goes right at Davis, hits the lay up and gets the foul! FT is no good.
KD was draped by the defender and still hit the pull up jumper from the baseline.
Santon sent to the line after the foul on Curry and he hits both FTs.
Curry misses the three but in comes Davis crashing in for the huge tip slam over Santos!
Caboclo pulls up from the FT line and hits the mid range jumper.
Davis follows up the miss from KD and gets the put back to go and the foul on Santos. FT is good.
De Paula follows up the miss from Meindi and gets the put back to fall underneath.
Booker with another three ball and he's up to 15 points on the night! By far his best game with Team USA in this campaign.
Santos going back to the rack and he lays it up and in.
LeBron driving to the bucket and he gets the bucket and the foul! FT is no good.
Santos with a three ball from the top of the key! Brazil isn't ready to give up yet.
Booker goes right back to work with a three ball from the wing! He's got double digits on the night.
De Santos answers back with a three ball and if the Brazilians are going to come back it's going to be from the three point line.
Holiday drills a three ball from the wing and the onslot continues for Team USA.
Caboclo starts the second half with a lay up underneath.
THE SECOND HALF IS UNDER FROM PARIS!
Embiid leads all scorers with 14 points, and is 3/3 from downtown. He hasn't done it quietly. He's been taunting the French crown who have turned on him over the last few weeks.
LeBron has taken this game over, but not by scoring. He's got 8 assists to go along with his 10 points at the half. He has been without question the United States' best player, and he is continuing that trend tonight from Paris.
Devin Booker came out hot to start the first half against Brazil and had Team USA up double digits after a 16-2 run early in the first quarter.
WE ARE AT THE HALFTIME BREAK AND THE UNITED STATES ARE UP BY 27 POINTS!!!
It's looking like another blowout in the making here in the last quarterfinal from Paris!
Alley oop off the inbound and James finds Tatum for the slam!
LeBron to the line after the foul on Caboclo and he hits both FTs.
Holiday pulls up from the elbow and hits the mid range jumper.
James drives down the right side of the lane and gets the lay up to drop in traffic.
Embiid follows up the missed dunk from Tatum and gets the put back and the foul! FT is good but he's getting booed after making a bit of a Triple X gesture to the to the crowd here in France.
Holiday with the cut to the bucket and LeBron hit him on the right side of the lane for the lay up.
Timeout Brazil with 2:47 to go in the 2nd quarter.
James going back to the rack and he lays it up and in off the glass.
Caboclo to the after the foul on James and he hits both FTs.
Holiday leaves it for Embiid at the top of the key and he hits his third triple of the game!
Curry fouled by Huertas on the three ball and he goes to the line where he hits all three.
Huertas to the corner for Dias and he drills the three ball! Brazil is living and dying by the three. How long can it last?
Tatum to the line after the foul on Dias and he hits both FTs to end the Brazil run.
Huertas with the floater from the left side of the lane and the runner goes. 10-0 run from Brazil!
Huertas puts up a three ball from the top of the key off the dribble and drills it! Brazil are within 11 thanks to their veteran PG.
De Paula jacks a three ball from the wing and just like that Brazil is back in this game!
Timeout USA with 5:30 to go in the 2nd quarter.
Dias cutting baseline and De Paula found him for the jam.
Edwards from the corner and that three ball goes! The lead is creeping up to 20 for Team USA.
White following up the miss from KD and he tips it up and in.
Bam pulls up from the top of the key and hits the deep two to start the second quarter.
WE ARE AT THE END OF THE FIRST QUARTER AND TEAM USA JUMPED OVER BRAZIL FROM THE EARLY GOING!
Booker leads USA with 9 points and Embiid has 8 while Caboclo leads Brazil with 7.
Benite to the line after the foul on White and he hits one of two FTs.
De Paula going strong to the rack and he finishes the slam over Davis and gets the foul! FT is good.
Edwards running the break and Davis found him on the outlet fo the easy lay up on the other end.
Davis streaking down the lane. He takes the contact and finishes with the lay up off the glass.
KD in the game and heading to the line after the foul on De Paula and he hits both FTs.
Kick out from De Paula who finds Dias for the three ball and he drills it from the wing!
Booker on the deep ball and he hit it and got the foul! FT is good to complete the four point play after the foul on Santos.
Cabolco pulls up from three point distance and sinks the three ball!
LeBron on the turn around from the baseline and he's all nets over the defender.
Embiid was dared to shoot the three again, and this time he strokes it from the wing.
Huertas with his patented off balanced mid range jumper and the 40 year old continues to impress at the highest level.
Booker with a foul in the mid court and that sends Meindl to the line where he makes a FT.
Cabolco pulls up from the elbow and sinks the mid range jumper to break the United States run.
Booker with the drive from the corner and he dumps is off for Embiid for the jump hook in the paint.
LeBron with the strip on one end, and he looks ahead to Booker who jacks a three off the pull up and drills it!
Timeout Brazil with 5:57 to go in the first quarter.
LeBron running the break and he slips it off for Holiday who throws it down with one hand on the left side.
LeBron looks over the top with a half court pass and finds Curry for the quick and easy bucket.
Huertas pulls up from the FT line and drills the mid range jumper.
LeBron puts his head down and gets to the iron for a lay up on the right side of the rim.
Curry slashes to the cup after the dish from LeBron and lays it up off the glass.
Embiid was left open at the top of the key and he drills the long ball!
Caboclo slashes to the bucket off the pick and roll and lays it up and in.
Booker down low and he gives the defense a double pump before laying it up and in.
Embiid tried to save it on the sideline but had it picked by Santos and he takes it for a lay up on the first bucket of the game.
WE ARE UNDERWAY FROM PARIS!!!!
USA first five
Steve Kerr has been tinkering with his starting five since the very start of the exhibition tour. Jrue Holiday is back in the first five after not playing a single minute against Puerto Rico. Devin Booker gets the start and may have been the other question mark coming into tonight. Joel Embiid, LeBron and Steph make up the other three in Kerr's starting five and Team USA will be hoping to get a better start than they had last game against PR.
What's waiting in the semis
The winner of this game is on to the semifinals and will be a win away from securing a medal at the 2024 Olympics. Obviously that’s not the objective for Team USA who is trying to keep their gold medal streak alive after finishing top of the podium in the last four Olympics. This is the final game of the day, and Germany started off this quarterfinal Tuesday with a win over Greece before Serbia beat Australia and the host nation beat Canada in the game just before this one. That means that the winner of this game will take on Serbia in the semifinals while German and France will play for a spot in the Final. Team USA has already played Serbia twice, once in exhibition play and another time in Group Stages. They beat the Serbians comfortably in both of those games but they will have to get through this game before they can start thinking about Jokic and the Serbians.
Kerr's take on Brazil
Steve Kerr has seen and done just about everything in the game of basketball. He’s won NBA titles as a player, he’s won NBA titles as a coach, he won gold in Tokyo as an assistant to Coach Kyrzewski. It’s safe to say he knows basketball, and he knows that this is not going to be a game that the US are going to breeze by. “They are very physical. I think they’re the No. 1 offensive rebounding team in the tournament. They’ve got a lot of really good shooters and they just play hard” Kerr said to Brian Windhorst in the preview of this game. “They compete play after play, so we’ll have to be ready for their physicality and their shooting, and we need to be on edge and ready for them because they’re not going to back down.”
Star watch: Brazil
Bruno Caboclo is getting all the headlines in Brazil for good reason. He had a monster game that kept his team in the Olympics against Japan but you aren’t going to beat this Team USA side without some of your perimeter guys getting hot. Vitor Benite and Yago Santos have to come up huge for Brazil today in Paris. Benite had 19 points off the bench against Japan and hit 5 of 7 threes and Santos had 18 point and 8 assists in a losing effort against Germany. We have said it before, opponents of Team USA have to be perfect when they play this super team but Brazil has the ingredients to make this a tough game if they come out locked in from the start.
Star watch: USA
Stating the obvious at this juncture would be a bit pointless. We have all seen Team USA play by now. We know. They are a loaded team deep with NBA stars from their No. 1 player to their No. 12 player. If there is one person I can say I’m surprised with so far for their lack of impact on this team, it would be Steph Curry. He’s averaging just 7 points a game, and had his worst game against South Sudan, going 1/9 from the field and scoring just 3 points. The Steph we have come to know would have bounced back and dropped 30+ in the next game, but against Puerto Rico he had just 8 points on 3/8 shooting. Steph knows there are plenty of stars to carry this team, so if it’s not his night, he can pass the ball off and Team USA will be just fine, but tonight is going to be his night.
Last game: Brazil
The Brazilians faced a do-or-die match up against Japan knowing that even a win may not have been enough. They were going to need a win and win by a lot to ensure they had a shot at one of the last quarterfinal spots. They jumped out to an early double digit lead in the first quarter thanks to a sensational game from Bruno Caboclo who had 33 points and 18 rebounds, but Japan would battle back and cut the lead to four heading into the fourth quarter. Brazil came up clutch under pressure and made sure that the not only won the game but they blew Japan out by 18 which allowed them to capture the third spot in the group and the final place in the quarterfinals.
Last Game: USA
It’s nothing new for the United States to get off to a slow start. It may not be so much a case of Team USA dragging out of the gate as it is their opponents rising to the challenge. That was the case with Jose Alvarado and Puerto Rico on Saturday. Alvarado scored 13 first half points and had his team leading after the first 10 minutes, but then Anthony Edwards came off the bench and took control of the game. He scored 26 points on 11/15 field goals as the US took the lead in the second quarter and stretched it to a 30 point lead by the end of the third quarter. Team USA rolled to the win and ended the group stages with an average margin of victory of 21.3 ppg.
We are live from Paris
Hello everyone and welcome to Paris where Team USA arrives after dominating the Group Stages in Lille. They took on a Serbia Team in the first game and blew out one of the favorites to dethrone the Americans. Then they got their revenge against a South Sudan team that gave them a scare in the pre-Olympic exhibition tour before blowing out Puerto Rico on Saturday. Brazil had a more complicated journey to the quarter, losing to France and Germany before beating Japan in the final group stage game. They got into quarterfinals by being one of the two best third place teams after three group games, but now David will have to knock off Goliath if they want a chance at a medal in Olympic basketball.
Team USA vs. Brazil
It’s the final match up of Quarterfinal Tuesday here from the Olympics and the gold medal favorites are set to square off against a team that snuck into the knockout round on the final day of Group Stages. It’s Team USA continuing their quest for a fifth straight gold medal taking on a Brazil team hoping to pull one of the upsets of Olympic history tonight and AS English will be with you all afternoon long providing live coverage, stats, highlights and analysis of tonight’s game from Bercy Arena.