By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
USA is still unbeaten in Rio, however after two close games against Australia and Serbia, everyone is wondering if an upset is right around the corner.
It’s obvious at this point that USA must step up and play better and Paul George, speaking to the “Vertical” explained that: “Once again, we relied on natural talent. This is why these guys are special in our league. We’re still scoring 100 points, taking one-on-five shots, but we’re too good for that.”
“We got to expect this,” said DeMarcus Cousins. “Every time we step on the floor, guys are going to give us their best effort, everybody wants to beat Team USA. We know that coming in, but at the same time, we can’t crumble the way we’ve done the past two games. Right now, we’re hurting ourselves. Not taking away credit of how Serbia played, because they played amazing tonight. But we’ve got to be a lot stronger mentally.”
And the question is can USA play better and demonstrate some kind of chemistry which is obvious lacking? “Can we play better? I hope. I think we can,” Coach Krzyzewski said. “We do have more talent and we have to get our talent playing even much better as a team. Our guys are playing as a team, and I think we just haven’t had that experience of playing that long together and hopefully these games will help us and the game against France will also.”