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Team USA routs Venezuela in sloppy exhibition: Takeaways, highlights

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Team USA's 80-45 trouncing of Venezuela in Friday's exhibition game was not exactly exhilarating. It was billed as a "USA Basketball Showcase," but if this was an advertisement for what's to come this summer, it was an ineffective one.

Obviously, Team USA was the far more talented team here. Venezuela's lone NBA player, Greivis Vasquez of the Brooklyn Nets, was in the building but did not play -- earlier in the day, Vasquez withdrew from the Olympic Games in order to continue rehabilitating from an ankle injury.