Significance Of Team USA Losing + The Best Story Of The World Cup

Brian Windhorst & The Hoop Collective

ESPN

Basketball, Sports

3.9 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Brian Windhorst is joined by ESPN's Tim Bontemps and Tim MacMahon to discuss Team USA’s first loss of the World Cup, what Lithuania did well and what the bracket looks like for Team USA going forward. Plus, how formidable Canada can be, what Luka can do for Slovenia, other contenders and the best story of the World Cup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome to the Hooke Collective Podcast. We talk about the MBA, which we're doing
0:10.2	on Monday morning in Manila and Sunday afternoon in the United States, joining me from New
0:15.9	York City just before he heads over to Europe is Tim Bonteffs. Hello, guys. Just computed
0:23.0	that next Sunday after the World Cup. It'll be very interesting. I'm going to be spread
0:29.6	around. Anyway, joining us from Dallas, Texas, whether thinking about nothing but basketball
0:36.0	right now, I'm sure in Texas and Labor Day weekend, it's Bann McMan.
0:40.7	Howdy partners and as Coach Prime would say, you're my darn thing music.
0:48.1	Hey, I don't know if you noticed, but in the last podcast is a birthday present there it was.
0:52.0	Oh, I noticed, baby. I know that he tweeted about it, bro. He was always dancing, shaking my shoulder,
0:58.8	doing little shimmy. Yes, he wasn't dancing tonight. Well, actually, I'll tell you who was dancing,
1:04.3	the Lithuanian fans. Lithuanians in Manila, they stayed about 30 minutes after the game here
1:13.4	tonight after upsetting Team USA by six and cheer and cheer and cheer. And one thing the Fiba does
1:21.0	that I like, I don't want to misinterpret the song, but there's some sort of Lithuanian national
1:27.2	song they were playing after the game to just let them soak it all in. And I approve of those
1:33.5	drums too. They didn't have the drums. They didn't have the drums. No, you know, the thing I like
1:39.1	about, you know, Lithuanian, I'm sure I'm not going to pronounce it correctly. I believe the way
1:44.9	the Lithuans pronounce it is Litvia. And, you know, like their cheer is just Litvia, boom, boom,
1:53.2	boom, Litvia, boom, boom, boom. I respect a simple cheer, you know, like I got chance to go to an
1:59.3	Arsenal football game last year in London. Their cheer is Arsenal, Arsenal, Arsenal. I like it.
2:07.4	Okay, it's I like the simplicity of it. And those Lithuanian fans are really enjoying themselves.
2:13.6	Lithuania, why was they were going to talk about Team USA? Lithuania played an absolutely brilliant
2:21.2	game that I witnessed here in Manila Sunday night, Sunday morning in the US, an absolutely
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