As we said before the game, France wasn’t going to be a pushover but we didn’t think the US would just fall apart in the clutch.
But that’s what happened, as Team USA missed its final nine shots, including five on one possession.
For a number of reasons we weren’t able to watch, but this sounds a lot like the pre Mike Krzyzewski teams that got behind and tried to trade twos for threes or, in this case, getting nada. Those teams got rattled instead of getting busy.
And in more bad news, the U.S. players are reportedly grumbling about running “San Antonio’s offense” under coach Gregg Popovich.