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00:00if you could poke holes in the resume for the Americans at all we saw them on
00:08display on Saturday afternoon against South Sudan 101 100 Team USA survives at
00:16the very end in the final 10 seconds it was LeBron James giving the Americans
00:21that one-point lead but South Sudan had multiple opportunities near the buzzer
00:27unable to convert to call it a close call that's one thing for one's sake but
00:32it leads to many questions let's start with the exhibition match itself how did
00:38this happen how was it only a one-point victory against South Sudan got off to
00:45a slow start against a team that I think is better than people realize the wall
00:50thing is credited with really turning this program into a legitimate program
00:55South Sudan which is the best in all of Africa at this point taking the mantle
00:59from Nigeria who beat the United States in the scrimmage before the Olympics in
01:032021 this is actually progress from where the United States were before the
01:07last Olympics because they had lost to Nigeria they lost to Australia back to
01:12back times and then finally got it together and even lost in group play
01:16which we can get into but you know South Sudan is a legit team they're one of the
01:21worst teams in the Olympics but that's because the Olympics only has 12 teams
01:24this is a tournament that it's really hard to get into and South Sudan
01:29qualified by being the best performing team from the African regions so you
01:34have like Wayne Gabriel who's been in the NBA Nune Oumad was once a Nets
01:39G leaguer who was an Exhibit 10 guy Mariel Shyok who had a cup of coffee in
01:44the NBA at one point Karlik Jones was a Chicago Bulls two-way like there's
01:47talent on this team and Royal Ivy is a really good coach who's an NBA assistant
01:52who was a longtime point guard who could be an NBA head coach at some point and
01:56South Sudan when they were in the World Cup last year they gave my Puerto Rican
02:00some problems almost beat Puerto Rico in the first game of the World Cup that
02:05went to overtime um and you know they had a good showing despite being knocked
02:09out early so South Sudan is good they're not they shouldn't be doing this to Team
02:14USA and I think it's just one of these things where people have to realize like
02:17this isn't the NBA if anything this is closer to March Madness because there's
02:21a group stage and then you have just an a tournament from there so it's it's a
02:26it's it's a cross between I guess the playoffs and March Madness but it's
02:30closer to March Madness than I think people realize and these things happen