Team USA Covers as Favorite in Olympic Opener Win vs. Serbia
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00:00So, Vecchio, as we look at the odds for the Olympic opener for Team USA yesterday, 110.84
00:09to win.
00:10The United States covering is a 13.5 point favorite.
00:13The total, 185 in a hook, skies way over.
00:17Vecchio, throughout this Olympic tournament, with men's basketball and Team USA, what is
00:22your handicapping approach going to be?
00:25It's been difficult just because we didn't know what the rotation was going to be, as
00:29you guys discussed a couple of segments ago with Tatum not playing.
00:32It's also different rules in terms of the time limit, the overall time of the game.
00:36So we have to look at that in terms of players.
00:39Their production rate is not going to be the same.
00:41Their usage rate is not going to be the same, because these are all players, generally speaking,
00:44that have 25, 30% usage rate.
00:46So they're not going to be posting these PRAs that are at 50 or 60.
00:49They're going to be somewhere in the 30s.
00:50So we have to use the overall time of the game and just how different international
00:55basketball is as a starting point.
00:57And then it's kind of just like a, I want to say a little bit of coach speak.
01:00We have to take what we heard.
01:01And, you know, Steve Kerr said that he didn't play Tatum, but Tatum's going to play moving
01:04forward.
01:05So we can use a little bit of that going into the next game.
01:09Take a look at the game itself, 110 to 84, an easy victory for Team USA over Serbia.
01:14Let me just ask you this question.
01:15Forget about the players in the game itself, Team USA as a whole, did that change your
01:19opinion at all, as if now when the lights are brightest, Team USA should really shine?
01:24Or were you like, you know what?
01:25I knew we had a good team, expected an easy victory out of Serbia.
01:28And let's see what's ahead.
01:30I think the trust is still there.
01:32I think we're looking ahead.
01:34Like the first few games, the exhibition games, Team USA generally started off pretty slow.
01:38So they had like those few scares, you know, one point game versus South Sudan, like in
01:42the exhibition.
01:43Like they had those scares.
01:44They got those out of the way.
01:45Now it's time for like, business time is here.
01:48So enough of that nonsense, get down to business, trust the key players, get a solid rotation
01:52going and we can move forward, pick up some easy wins and Team USA comes away with the
01:56gold.