Team USA vs South Sudan: Can the United States Avoid a Close One?
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00:00I wonder your curiosity on this game here, because Team USA plays against South Sudan
00:08today and if you remember in the exhibition that they played, it was very close, it came
00:13right down to the end, but the odds makers, Gilbert, are telling us that Team USA is going
00:19to pay South Sudan back in a big way tomorrow afternoon.
00:22They're 29 and a half point favorites with a total of 191, so I don't know what to make
00:31of this, Gilbert.
00:32I mean, either Team USA, I suppose, is going to win by 40, or is South Sudan going to keep
00:39this right down to the wire here?
00:41I mean, this is a, I mean, what do we take away from the exhibition season in the Olympics
00:47to the medal season?
00:51You know what, Craig?
00:52I find this line very interesting.
00:54It took a game-winning layup from LeBron James to beat this very talented South Sudan team,
00:59and it almost feels like this line suggests that Team USA took that team lightly, and
01:04I think that actually South Sudan is a very talented team.
01:07I think that they are built to take advantage of the fact that Team USA has not been together
01:11very long.
01:12Team USA has made a lot of mistakes because they're still learning one another, and South
01:15Sudan took advantage of almost every single one of those mistakes.
01:19I do think Team USA is going to be a little bit more prepared this time around.
01:22I don't expect it to be a one-possession game like it was during the exhibition season,
01:27so to speak, and I also know that Kevin Durant's return to the lineup does make a big difference,
01:31as we saw in the opener against Serbia, but I kind of feel like South Sudan is talented
01:36enough and athletic enough and skilled enough to keep it within 30 points.
01:4030 points just really does feel like a lot, but again, maybe they know something that
01:45we don't know about Kevin Durant's presence and what he can do, and maybe they do have
01:49a little vengeance on their mind after being pushed to the limit by South Sudan.