USA 110, Tunisia 63

Having already given you an overview above, I’ll let my colleagues give you the details. Just know that Anthony Davis’ performance in that game would have had me on the New Orleans Hornets bandwagon faster than Usain Bolt fleeing from police if I hadn’t jumped on quite some time ago. I’ve been on so long that I’ve been driving it for the last few days. Please, climb aboard! The more the merrier! Especially with what’s been going on with the Bulls lately.

Brazil 67, Great Britain 62

Again, I gave you the overview, but you should go read this if you want details.

Russia 73, China 54

Russia is starting to feel like they could be a dark horse medal contender. They’ve got some NBA talent; Andrei Kirilenko, Timofey Mozgov of the Denver Nuggets (who is, of course, most famous for being rudely introduced to Blake Griffin’s crotch back in 2010), former Bull Victor Khryapa, Sasha Kaun and Minnesota Timberwolves signee Alexy Shved all play for them and combined for 60 of their 73 points. Admittedly, China isn’t exactly a juggernaut, but they destroyed Great Britain, who then looked pretty competent against Brazil. So although it’s unlikely to amount to much, there’s a lot to like about Russia. Well, their basketball team, anyway.

This was pretty much a cakewalk. Russia trailed 4-3 around the 8 minute mark in the fourth quarter before taking a 5-4 lead shortly thereafter. They wouldn’t trail again. Yi Jianlian scored 16 points for China but got basically zero help.

Spain 82, Australia 70

Spain is generally considered to be the main threat to the US’s gold medal aspirations, so a 12 point victory over lowly Australia seems kind of disappointing. But take out a rough finish to the first quarter and a fourth quarter that was basically 100% garbage time, and you see a slightly different story. After trailing by five at the end of the first, Spain hit the afterburners and left Australia eating its dust. Over the second and third quarters, they outscored Australia by a combined 49-23. That’s more like it.

Pau Gasol scored 20 points in just 18 minutes to lead Spain and Rudy Fernandez added 17 on 6/7 shooting. Australia featured Patty Mills, Joe Ingles and Brad Newley in double figures, but shot just 37 percent as a team and got outrebounded by 17.

Lithuania 72, Nigeria 53

Lithuania rebounded from a rough first showing by beating down an overmatch Nigerian squad that shout just 24% from the field. No, I’m not making that up. Actually, that stat just makes me sad, so we’re gonna go ahead and move on.

France 71, Argentina 64

Don’t sleep on France. They may have been dismissed easily by the US, but they’re another team to keep an eye on. Tony Parker didn’t shoot well, but he’s still probably the best non-US point guard in the olympics. And that matters a lot in olympic basketball.

Argentina got 26 points from Parker’s NBA teammate Manu Ginobili and 16 from Luis Scola, but nobody else stepped up. France, on the other hand, had five guys in double figures. Argentina is still a legitimate contender, but they’re going to need more from people who are not Ginobili/Scola.

#	Team	Player	P	School
1	LA Clippers	Blake Griffin	PF	Oklahoma
2	Memphis	Hasheem Thabeet	C	UConn
3	Oklahoma Cty	James Harden	SG	Arizona St.
4	Sacramento	Ricky Rubio	PG	Spain
5	Washington	Jordan Hill	PF	Arizona
6	Minnesota	Tyreke Evans	PG/SG	Memphis
7	Golden St.	Jonny Flynn	PG	Syracuse
8	New York	Stephen Curry	SG	Davidson
9	Toronto	DeMar DeRozan	SG	USC
10	Milwaukee	Brandon Jennings	PG	USA
11	New Jersey	Jeff Teague	PG	Wake Forest
12	Charlotte	Gerald Henderson	SG	Duke
13	Indiana	Tyler Hansbrough	PF	North Carolina
14	Phoenix	James Johnson	SF	Wake Forest
15	Detroit	Eric Maynor	PG	VCU
16	Chicago	DeJuan Blair	PF	Pittsburgh
17	Philadelphia	Jrue Holiday	G	UCLA
18	*Minnesota	Terrence Williams	SG/SF	Louisville
19	Atlanta	BJ Mullens	C	Ohio State
20	Utah	Wayne Ellington	SG	North Carolina
21	New Orleans	Earl Clark	SF	Louisville
22	Dallas	Ty Lawson	PG	North Carolina
23	*Sacramento	Omri Casspi	SF	Israel
24	Portland	DaJuan Summers	F	Georgetown
25	*Oklahoma Cty	Damion James	SF	Texas
26	*Chicago	Chase Budinger	G/F	Arizona
27	*Memphis	Derrick Brown	SF	Xavier
28	*Minnesota	Tyler Smith	SF	Tennessee
29	LA Lakers	Darren Collison	PG	UCLA
30	Cleveland	Taj Gibson	PF	USC

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