With the all-Star luxury lineup, the United States team although the game has not yet been played, they think they can win the game, and in the next Olympic Games, the United States is also a popular team to win the championship, but the first warm-up game against the strength of Nigeria, they still paid for their own light enemies, the team in the first half although achieved a 2-point advantage, but it can also be seen that the United States team played very scattered, lack of an organizational core, Lillard and Bill are not such types of players.
Although the U.S. team scored a lot, but more of them like a single fight, Bill and Tatum almost did not score the opportunity to basket, it seems that these superstars who are accustomed to playing in the NBA, for the Olympic games, venues, with the ball, the rules or there is a great discomfort, Durant only hit 2 goals in the first 11 shots, which is completely different from his performance in the playoffs, and the team's defense is also untargeted, often missing the opportunity of the big vacancy, plus today Nigeria's 3 points are really particularly accurate, 3 points in 42 shots of 20 in the whole game also made the American team a little overwhelmed, and finally they lost to the opponent 87-90, you know that in the Olympic Games 9 years ago, the American men's basketball team had a big victory over the opponent by 83 points!
In this game, Nigeria, whether it is tactical preparation, or the play of players, but also including the team's head coach's on-the-spot substitution, are very targeted, after all, the team has a number of players are playing in the NBA, the United States tactics and play is very familiar with the United States tactics and play, 3 of them are from the Heat, and the U.S. men's basketball center Adebayo is a teammate. And head coach Mike Brown, is also very familiar with the United States team, he has been a coaching assistant in the Warriors for a long time, and he is very familiar with players such as Green and Durant, and the team's last defense is to let Green pinch other players, and they finally succeeded.
After the game, the U.S. men's basketball team also rushed to the hot search, Durant also became the object of ridicule by fans, he was even put on the Nigerian icon by P, spoofing him to join the Nigerian men's basketball team. For this victory, Nigeria coach Mike Brown was very calm, saying: "The game is over, it doesn't mean much about the position we want to achieve, but it is a very good victory for us." I don't think any African team has been able to beat the United States in a warm-up or regular game. We are trying to provide some impetus to Nigeria and the African continent. ”
Defeating the powerful U.S. men's basketball team, but brown described as "not much significance", which is also too hard to know, to know that the world can beat this U.S. men's basketball team, is also a handful, but it does not mean much to them, which makes the U.S. team hear too hard, in the Olympic games, Nigeria and Australia, Germany and Italy are divided into Group B, this group is really promising to become the group of death, if Nigeria has such a state, they qualify from the group, it is not impossible. After the game, Tatum was not worried about the loss, saying: "I think it's a good thing for us, we'll learn a lot from the video, we'll regroup and keep a positive mindset. ”
Popovich, on the other hand, explained the reason for the team's loss, saying bluntly: "The opponent gave us a lot of physical confrontation in this game and shot a lot of three-pointers. They played very well. Now the other national teams are constantly improving. At the same time, Popovich also believes that losing the game is not unacceptable, which he believes will help the next Olympic Games, he said: "In a sense, I am happy to lose, we will go back to study the problem." When they increased the intensity of the confrontation, we went back to the NBA's 1v1 go-alone mode, which couldn't get the game done. ”