Team USA bulldozes yet another squad in international competition, encouragement abound

August 7th, 2006 | Posted by PostmanR

The stars and stripes of the basketball variety stomped all over a Yao Ming-less China today, 119-73. (You can watch the game on ESPN2 tonight at 9:30 p.m. ET.)

Now, I obviously haven’t seen the game yet and I only caught the first quarter and part of the second quarter (I turned it off when Team USA was losing early on in the second) of the team’s whompfest on the Puerto Rican squad last week. So, I’m not quite at liberty to say I’ve seen the team putting it together on the both end of the floor.

But someone who knows the game of roundball much better than me, the Mighty MJD, seems to think this team is headed in the right direction after the PR matchup.

And Free Darko talked to Brad Miller, who indicated it was the team’s goal to beat PR by 50. These dudes certainly seem serious about reclaiming the domination we once held in international basketball competition.

Now, we still haven’t played any of the tough European clubs such as Italy, (and won’t in exhibition play) but the US will face a Brazilian squad with some NBA links tomorrow.

Everything so far is pretty encouraging, nonetheless.

(UPDATE: Team USA barely beats Brazil today (Tuesday) 90-86. Less enthusiasm abound.)