After an exhibition loss to Nigeria over the weekend shocked the basketball world, the U.S. Men’s Olympic team lost another exhibition game on Monday, this time to Australia. Now, these are j…
had been 54-2 in exhibition games since pros started playing in 1992. They’ve now doubled those losses in a span of three days.”
The U.S. led at the half 46-37 on Monday, but Australia scorched the U.S. 32-18 in the third quarter to lead 69-64 heading into the fourth. Australia was ahead 86-82 with 3:14 left to play when the U.S. called a timeout. Durant missed one of two subsequent free throws, making it 86-83. Australia answered right back to lead 88-83. The U.S. failed to score in the final minutes of the game, with Australia going on to make the final score 91-83.
Damian Lillard of the Portland Trail Blazers led the U.S. with 22 points, including 6-of-11 from three. Mills also had 22 for Australia. Durant had just 17 points. Fans quickly took to Twitter calling on Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski, who led U.S. men’s national basketball team to three Olympic Gold medals, to come back and lend a hand ahead of Tokyo 2020 instead of Spurs coach Greg Popovich.
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