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So far, the Redeem Team has blown away every team they've faced in the Olympics. But this morning they're going against the one team that gave them some significant trouble in their warm-ups just before the Olympics started - Australia.Back on August 5th in Shanghai, Team USA won 87-76 over a determined Australian squad that was playing without Andrew Bogut. Now, we shouldn't be overly concerned, seeing as Australia played their butts off while Team USA was using the game as an opportunity to get everyone playing time and figure out their rotation.
But at the same time, today's game is one-and-done. You lose this game, no medal for you. So I'd expect Coach K to have spent the past few days dissecting everything Team USA did wrong during that August 5th game and drilling it into his players' heads that they have to step it up another level to put a game Australian squad away today.
While the addition of Bogut will certainly help Australia, I expect Team USA to be more focused than ever. They didn't come this far to suddenly collapse like the 2004 team did in Athens. I see a fairly comfortable 25-point victory.
Q it up here with us during the game.
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