Lithuania vs usa basketball

[skillful]

While I support Team USA, the truth is they were just lucky to score 29 3s against Nigeria. I swear that will never happen again!!

watcha gonna do about it

[K]

I badly wanted Lithuania to win...

Mind you they both called us monkeys..lithuanianian fans and Americans wih their unsportsmanlike derision and laughter they ran up scores.

[okjazz]

While I support Team USA, the truth is they were just lucky to score 29 3s against Nigeria. I swear that will never happen again!!

But you also boldly predicted that USA would not beat Naija by more than 25 points

[soothsayer]

While I support Team USA, the truth is they were just lucky to score 29 3s against Nigeria. I swear that will never happen again!!

I am beginning to see what Amechi meant (he was commentating for the bbc) he was quite critical about the way Nigeria made it easy for the Americans and he said Nigeria were far better than the scoreline suggested, I wanted to doubt it but seeing the way Lithuania played (a team we beat to qualify for this tournament) I realized what he meant. I am unsure as to whether our loss of defensive form was due to players indiscipline or the coaching. What made me mad about the USA is the way they mocked Nigeria in defeat, I found no constructive criticism or advice about Nigerian mistakes just mockery. It is the kind of thing most CE's criticize the Brits for.

[kolinzo]

While I support Team USA, the truth is they were just lucky to score 29 3s against Nigeria. I swear that will never happen again!!

But you also boldly predicted that USA would not beat Naija by more than 25 points

Yes I did boldly! But that does not mean it must not be said the 29 3's was due to pure luck. Don't forget I also boldy predicted we would score 70 points against the USA as well...how 'bout that?!

[kolinzo]

While I support Team USA, the truth is they were just lucky to score 29 3s against Nigeria. I swear that will never happen again!!

I am beginning to see what Amechi meant (he was commentating for the bbc) he was quite critical about the way Nigeria made it easy for the Americans and he said Nigeria were far better than the scoreline suggested, I wanted to doubt it but seeing the way Lithuania played (a team we beat to qualify for this tournament) I realized what he meant. I am unsure as to whether our loss of defensive form was due to players indiscipline or the coaching. What made me mad about the USA is the way they mocked Nigeria in defeat, I found no constructive criticism or advice about Nigerian mistakes just mockery. It is the kind of thing most CE's criticize the Brits for.

As a Nigerican that I am, I understand where you are coming from. But you must understand that we deserved 80% of this mockery. Why? Because our coach is more like a Junior High School Coach. I mean we have this great set of players whose commitment we should capitalize but our coach is just not a coach, therefore clueless on what to do. Next time we should have a player-coach to coach the team.

But you are right, the score didn't flatter us. And the USA knew they were lucky to score 156points! This morning I was listening to coach Doc Rivers and he alluded to the fact that it is extremely rare to score that many 3's.

[Player]

Thats basketball for you, we caught them on a bad day, but our defense didnt help either....