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00:00A game in Olympic basketball history that we all shall remember for a very, very long
00:09time.
00:10Helping us break down the madness that was the fourth quarter comeback for the United
00:14States yesterday against Serbia and what lays ahead in the gold medal game on Saturday afternoon.
00:21Bill Bender from Sporting News is here on this Friday on the early line on Sports Grid.
00:25Bill, we appreciate the time as always.
00:28Thank you for being here for yet another Olympic assessment, entering the final weekend
00:32of the games over in Paris.
00:34Yeah, I'm still sweating through my shirt after yesterday's game.
00:38What a comeback, what a fun matchup.
00:40You know, Serbia was just hitting.
00:43I say that, I think I said that on the show earlier this week.
00:47It's dictated by the three-point game.
00:49They hit five threes in each of those first three quarters.
00:52They couldn't miss.
00:53My son was losing his mind and USA clamped down on him on the fourth quarter.
00:58What a comeback.
00:59What a game.
01:00What a moment.
01:01Bogdan Bogdanovic got things started early for the Serbian, scored a team-high 20 points
01:07for Serbia, but cooled off in the fourth quarter and the United States rallied in that fourth
01:12and final quarter.
01:13Down by 13, entering the fourth stanza.
01:16The Americans win the fourth, 32-15 to come all the way back and continue the chase for
01:22a fifth consecutive gold medal, 95-91 over Serbia.
01:28Bill, there is so much that we could look back on from yesterday's game, even in the
01:32final 10 minutes that were the fourth quarter.
01:36What will you remember most from the American comeback over Serbia?
01:41LeBron James taking over the game.
01:43Obviously, Steph Curry, and I think early, I missed him by a game, by the way.
01:47The game before I thought he would go off, it was yesterday.
01:51So, sorry to the betters out there.
01:53I didn't know that he would go for 34 points and not miss from three and keep them in the
01:57game.
01:58But LeBron James getting a triple-double, and LeBron James guarding Djokic, and LeBron
02:03James doing all the things that he does at his age.
02:06You can tell how much this means to him and Kevin Durant, Steph Curry.
02:11It's not quite a passing-the-torch moment when those guys are carrying the torch for
02:15Team USA, and what a moment it was.
02:18And now they go to a gold medal game where, you know, it's another spread I look at, and
02:24this is tricky because France has played them tough in the past.
02:28Part of me thinks they're just going to blow them out with the momentum from that game,
02:32but this is a pretty good French team that they're going to play.
02:34And then I saw the analogy yesterday.
02:37It's like playing Syracuse and Rochester in the Elite Eight.