If you like crisp passes and aesthetically pleasing basketball, Team USA is not the squad for you at the Rio Olympics. Seriously, it’s iso-ball and long jumpers all day for this team — absolutely brutal stuff compared to the team basketball being played by everyone else.
However, there was some excitement during today’s game against France when Kyrie Irving found a way to hook up with Kevin Durant for an alley-oop dunk late in the fourth quarter:
This alley-oop from @KyrieIrving to @KDTrey5 should get a #gold medal all by itself: https://t.co/TPba4R9sVq https://t.co/NUqS1r0bDS
— NBC Olympics (@NBCOlympics) August 14, 2016
DeAndre Jordan expectedly lost his mind over it:
