Gonzaga coach Mark Few and Team USA face Nikola Jokic and Serbia to start Olympic competition
when the 1992 Dream Team took the world by storm as the first — and greatest — group of NBA players ever assembled for the Olympic Games.
"I mean, listen, get it. They're highly competitive, and they have a lot of pride," Few said of Team USA during training camp in Las Vegas. "If we can just be aggressive, but be ourselves and be who we are, and especially at the defensive end, we should be in great shape." Edwards has been electrifying off the bench at 13 points per game in exhibition play. Holiday has done a little bit of everything on both ends of the floor. LeBron James leads the team in scoring at 14.6 points per game and has come up clutch on more than one occasion; Steph Curry is the team’s best outside shooter at 38% from beyond the arc.
Still, the Serbs figure to give Team USA its stiffest competition in Group C play. They’re coming off a silver medal finish at the World Cup last summer in which they beat Canada in the semifinals and lost by six to Germany in the final, all without their best player in Jokic. The roster isn’t riddled with NBA talent, though Bogdan Bogdanovic and Vasilije Micic are solid counterparts to Jokic as outside shooters.
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