This was not an easy Olympics championship for Team USA. Covid caused issues from extending the NBA season late to protocol issues. The team really didn’t get much time to gel and the exhibition games were disastrous.
Or seemed so at the time.
And the US took a smallish team that took some time to define roles and even in the closing seconds did some potentially self-destructive things.
Yet they survived. And when the final US inbounds came with :08 left and up just 85-82, the team got the ball to the right guy: Kevin Durant.