Ricky Rubio, impassive, however, team USA. He returned to the most sensible Spain, 95-81, in the quarterfinals of the men’s basketball tournament at the Tokyo Olympics.
The U. S. will face the Argentina-Australia winner when Kevin Durant scored a record 29 points to make up for Rubio’s 38-point performance on 13-of-20 shooting (4-of-7-of-3).
It’s a glorious game in the sense that we are surely extremely happy with the win, knowing full well that there are a lot of paints to be done,” said U. S. team coach Gregg Popovich. But we played (against) a wonderful basketball team with an amazing coach. “
Equally 43-43 part-time after Spain led by double digits in the first half, the US opened the moment in the 15-4 part when Devin Booker’s layup scored 58-47 with 5:55 to play in. the third quarter.
Team USA U. S. He also outscored the 4-of-17-to-3 shot in the first half by going 9-of-15-for-3 in the part of the moment.
Durant, who scored 17 issues in the middle of the moment, led the players in double digits.
Jayson Tatum scored thirteen points, Jrue Holiday added 12, while Damian Lillard added 11 and Zach LaVine added 10.
The game is about buckets, so when you see the ball coming into the circle, everyone gets more power: coaches, players, coaches, everybody gets more power when the ball goes into the circle,” Durant said. . let’s do about 3 and the guys calm down, and then we made some stops. “
Booker struggled on 4-of-13 shooting, but had the team’s best rebounds, five assists, 3 steals and no turnovers in 26 minutes.
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