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00:00In doing some pre-show work here just to take a look at sort of the spread and what's going
00:08on here, I can't find anyone even backing Japan on the spread at all here, Carlin, in
00:13this game.
00:14I guess Japan is one of the, I mean, to say you're a bad team, I don't want to do that
00:18because these are kids at the Olympics, but apparently one of the poor teams participating
00:23in Paris is Japan.
00:25They're getting 20 and a half today and a high total of 160 and a half.
00:31So is this indeed a blowout game for Team USA?
00:35It is going to be a blowout game, much like most of the games, you know, that Team USA
00:39are going to compete in.
00:40You know, France is, or excuse me, Japan is a really good team, an interesting team, I
00:45would say, at this Olympic Games because they play a different style than anyone else.
00:49They're going to take and try to make a lot of three-pointers.
00:53No one else at the women's basketball game in the women's basketball field plays like
00:56this.
00:57They're going to shoot a ton of threes.
00:59It's going to look crazy, right?
01:00Like if you're watching this game, it's going to be confusing why they're just kind of jacking
01:03shots, you know, with 14 seconds on the shot clock, but that's the way they play.
01:07They just want possessions.
01:08They just want to get up as many shots as possible.
01:10They're trying to beat a math game more so than try to beat a team basketball-wise.
01:14So they're going to keep it close.
01:16It's going to be the most nervous you'll ever be covering a 20-point spread, but USA should
01:23cover it.
01:24But it's going to be closer to that 20 points.
01:25It's not going to be 30 or 40.
01:26It's not going to be comfortable.
01:27You're going to be sweating it out late in the game because Japan is going to continue
01:31shooting threes.
01:32And if they get hot at any point in these quarters, it will bring that scoreline down
01:36a little bit.
01:37The US, like I said, should cover it, but I think it's going to be closer to like 22,
01:4023 points when it's all said and done just because of the amount of possessions that
01:44Japan is going to have and the amount of threes that they're going to put up.
01:47They're going to make you sweat a little bit.