USA 'let their guard down' in narrow win over South Sudan - coach Kerr - video Dailymotion

The USA come close to a shock defeat in an Olympic warm up against the African side

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00:00I did not do a great job preparing our team, you know, I think we did not focus enough on

00:06what they're capable of and that's on me and that I think that really

00:13allowed South Sudan to gain confidence early and you know once we turned it up in the second half

00:20they had already knocked down a bunch of threes and they were feeling really good about themselves.

00:24We came in with the right mindset, I mean don't take nothing away from South Sudan,

00:27they played extremely good basketball and you know that's why the game is won in between the

00:33lines and not, you know, on paper, you know, so, you know, they got better, we got better

00:39in certain parts of the game. They were great, they played a wonderful game and, you know,

00:47the ending was good for us just to feel that, you know, to feel what it's going to be like in Paris

00:55and Lille, so good experience for us, good reminder that when we play against teams it's

01:03the biggest game of their lives and we have to expect everyone to play like that.