free throws with just 20 seconds remain- ing. France scored once more to bring the game to its 98-71 final.
USA 110, Tunisia 63 Eighty of the USA’s 110 points
came from its reserve players in a 110-63 rout of overmatched Tunisia, including 16 points apiece from Love and Anthony, who was 6-of-6 from the field in 12 minutes played. “My goal tonight was to try to get
kind of an equal number of minutes for everybody in the game and to try some different combinations,” said Krzyzewski. “Kevin Love is continuing to improve so we wanted to make sure he got his minutes. Anthony Davis. James Harden - Those guys got extend- ed minutes.” Durant finished with 13 points and
10 rebounds; Davis was 5-of-5 from the field – all five were alley-oops – and sank two free throws for 12 points; Westbrook added 11 points; and Harden finished with 10 points. Paul dished out a game-high seven assists. While the USA was 0-7 from 3-
point in the first quarter, Tunisia sank three 3-pointers in the first 5:05 and took at 11-10 lead with a long ball at 4:55. After a score from each team,
Krzyzewski changed his entire side at 2:39, and the fresh five of Anthony, Iguodala, Love, Westbrook and Williams went to work. Holding Tunisia scoreless over the remainder of the quarter, they tallied nine points to put the USA up 21-15 at the first break. “We have so many guys who can
come in and there’s no drop-off when you go to your bench,” Durant said. Anthony opened the second period
with the USA’s first made 3-pointer to help extend the run, which totaled 14-0, and the USA led 26-15 when Westbrook pulled up at 9:15. Tunisia scored out of a timeout to
end the streak, and then Marouan Hadidane sank three 3-pointers over the next four minutes to pull his side within five points, 35-30, at 3:33. The Americans once again respond-
ed with a scoring spree, tallying 11 unan- swered points from four scorers. Tunisia sank one more three before halftime, and the U.S. headed to the locker room with a 46-33 advantage.
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Three-time Olympian Carmelo Anthony collected his second Olympic gold medal in 2012. Anthony averaged 16.3 points and 4.8 rebounds a game, and he posted a U.S. Olympic single-game scoring record 37 points in the Americans’ win over Nigeria.
The U.S. reserves stared the second
half for the USA and compiled yet another scoring run, as the USA raced away with control of the game. All five scored during a 14-2 stretch that put the USA up 60-34 with a give-and-go between Anthony and Iguodala at 6:53. As the U.S. lineup changed through-
out the third quarter, the highlight reel continued. Davis scored on an alley-oop from Paul at 2:30 to put all 12 players on the board for the Americans, and Davis went on to two more crowd-pleasing oops, including the period’s final score at 3.6 seconds to bring the score to 85-47. It rained threes for the USA in the
final quarter, and Love closed with three 3-pointers in the final 3:15. The USA outscored Tunisia 25-16 in the stanza to compile its largest lead, 47 points, and bring the game to its 110-63 final. Finishing with just nine turnovers,
the USA caused Tunisia to cough up the ball 19 times, which it converted into 36 points to go along with 38 fast-break scores. The USA also outrebounded Tunisia 44-31.
USA 156, Nigeria 73 As the 3-pointers fell for the
U.S so did the records in a spectacular 156-73 win over Nigeria. With the 156 points, the USA men established the highest scoring performance by any team in Olympic history, while also rewriting six U.S. Olympic records and tying one more. In just 14:29 played, Anthony
tallied a U.S. Olympic single- game high of 37 points, and shot 10-of-12 from 3-point to set U.S. Olympic marks for 3-pointers made and attempted. As a team, the USA shot
29-of-46 from deep to set USA team highs for 3-pointers made and attempted. The USA was red- hot inside the arc as well, shoot- ing 59-of-83 from the field to set the U.S. Olympic mark for field-
USA 110, Tunisia 63 July 31, 2012
TUN
Ben Romdh. 36 9-18 3- 9 11 42 22 Rzig Mejri
31 2- 9 0- 0 703 4
El Mabrouk 16 1- 3 2- 2 001 5 Kechrid 36 3-11 0- 0 321 9 Hafsi
Grayaza Slimane Laghnej Knioua
USA
Bryant Paul
10 2- 5 1- 2 120 6 7 0- 1 0- 0 200 0 5 0- 0 0- 0 000 0 4 0- 1 0- 0 110 0 1 0- 0 0- 0 000 0
Hadidane 23 4- 9 1- 6 201 11 Totals 200 23-65 8-21 31 12 11 63
MIN FG FT R A PF PTS 9 2- 5 0- 0 103 4 25 1- 4 0- 0 174 2
Chandler 15 3- 3 0- 1 601 6 Durant James Love
23 4-10 4- 4 10 51 13 19 2- 4 0- 0 241 5 17 6- 9 1- 2 602 16
Harden 16 4- 7 0- 0 202 10 Davis
14 5- 5 2- 2 302 12
Anthony 12 6- 6 2- 2 201 16 Westbrook 15 4- 8 3- 5 331 11 Williams 15 3- 5 2- 2 041 9 Iguodala 20 3- 4 0- 0 550 6 Totals 200 43-70 14-18 44 28 19 110
Tunisia USA
15 18 14 16 21 25 39 25
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3PT FGs-Tunisia (9-26): Kechrid 3-8; Rzig 1-5, Hadidane 2-4; Ben Romdhane 1-3, El Mabrouk 1-2, Mejri 0-2, Hafsi 1-1, Laghnej 0-1; USA (10-25): Love 3-5, Harden 2-4, Anthony 2-2, Durant 1-4, James 1-2, Williams 1-2, Bryant 0-2, Paul 0-2, Westbrook 0-1, Iguodala 0-1; TO- Tunisia 19, USA 9; BLKS- Tunisia 3, USA 3; STLS-Tunisia 4, USA 8.
USA Basketball News
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