An Ugly Win For U.S. Is Still A Win

2007/08/28 18:27:52 @NBA.com: News

"Everybody's waiting for you to fail, and we did do that last year,"U.S. assistant coach Mike D'Antoni said earlier Monday, referring to the team's loss to Greece in the World Championships, where, as he noted, a couple bad quarters derailed its hopes of bringing home the gold medal. Later in the night, D'Antoni and the rest of the coaching staff saw their team struggle for another couple quarters, before finally pulling away from the Mexican national team for the 127-100 victory in the teams' opening game of the quarterfinal round.
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