USA Basketball pounds Venezuela after sketchy start

The Warriors’ forward picked up where he left off at the 2012 Olympics with 25 points, and the Americans routed China 119-62 on Saturday in their opening game.

Durant, a star at Oklahoma City, signed an National Basketball Association free agent deal to next season join Golden State, which won a record 73 games last season and came within a game of repeating as National Basketball Association champions.

Kevin Durant scored 25 points and Demarcus Cousins added 17 for the win. Those opinions won’t change after this performance.

Anthony, who is likely to finish this event as the USA’s all-time leading Olympic scorer, had nine points and seven rebounds.

If the US wins gold this year it will be the team’s third straight Olympic gold medal.

Anthony also played in his 24th Olympic game, tying the American record held by both LeBron and David Robinson. They were still stuck at two points three minutes into the game, plagued by missed jumpers and overpassing.

Rumors abound that China is feeling the pressure of trying to represent their country and perform well in this summer’s Games, but head coach Gong Luming is insisting that they “would rather take their Rio Olympic opener against Olympic and world champions United States of America as a learning experience than pressure”, according to Xinhuanet.

Venezuela’s John Cox, who is Kobe Bryant’s first cousin, had a team-high 19 points. Durant splashed a 15-footer off a baseline out-of-bounds play for the United States’ first bucket, breaking the dam for a flood of points that didn’t end until garbage time in the fourth quarter.

Before the Olympic games began, Team USA dominated China twice during their exhibition play, so this victory by the red, white, and blue was pretty much inevitable. “Our team can have a few different looks and if one of them’s going real well we’ll stay with that look”.

Both the US men’s and women’s squads will be resting aboard the Silver Cloud during their quest for gold.

After posting the 57-point win, the victors gathered at center court to break it down and then gave the appreciative crowd a wave before hitting the media rounds. He played his usual complete game, pulling four rebounds to go with five assists. “It doesn’t matter what anybody says, I got nothing but confidence in everybody here, and I feel as though we have a great chance to do something special”.

They’re still considered the team to beat even with their inexperience, which is why Paul George had such trouble with his first attempt at Portuguese.

US was so dominant that China’s largest lead was two points and they held that lead for 0:34.