Team USA defeats Brazil | Olympic Postgame reaction
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🗓️ 7 August 2024
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Mo Dakhil and Dave DuFour react to Team USA's victory in the Olympic quarterfinal round, the other quarterfinal games, and look ahead to the next round.
Host: Dave DuFour
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Athletic NBA show. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Dave DeFore here with Mo DeKeele and Team USA is moving on to the semi-final round of the Olympics. |
| 0:17.4 | Mo, Brazil, just did not have enough talent. |
| 0:23.7 | Team USA really never even struggled. There was one point in the game that they kind of had a hiccup, blew a little lead, but never got |
| 0:29.5 | closer than eight points. So 12287 Team USA. And I think the biggest story from this Mo, because it's |
| 0:36.9 | been such a big story all summer, |
| 0:40.0 | Joel Embed, he hasn't looked healthy. |
| 0:42.7 | He hasn't looked like a great fit for this team. |
| 0:46.2 | He hasn't brought the defensive intensity, the rebounding that we expected. |
| 0:50.1 | He only played 12 minutes in this game, but he was plus 25. |
| 0:53.0 | This was his best game with Team USA by far. Not only is just his best game just by, you know, kind of looking at the numbers and stuff, it's the most comfortable he's looked. You know, I felt like in any of the games, including the exhibition games, you know, I had a lot of questions about him, you know, coming into it. I've written about it for the athletic and |
| 1:12.1 | just kind of taking a few thoughts of it. But like, I think this was the most comfortable he |
| 1:17.8 | is looked and it was fluid. There wasn't a lot of post-ups, but it was him on the perimeter. It was |
| 1:23.0 | him in the face-up stuff and, you know, really started to find a rhythm. And this was, you know, |
| 1:27.4 | kind of a promising thing for Team USA if they can kind of keep him in. the face-up stuff and, you know, really started to find a rhythm. And this was, you know, |
| 1:33.1 | kind of a promising thing for Team USA if they can kind of keep him in this group. I think that's kind of the word Kurt used in the post game was, you know, he's in a good groove right now. |
| 1:38.4 | I think that's the important view of it is you want to keep him flowing, keep that kind of vibe |
| 1:43.8 | going with him. |
| 1:45.4 | I don't think this is a great post-up situation for him. |
| 1:49.8 | And I think his ability to step out will help him a lot. |
| 1:53.1 | And I think that showed a lot in this game against Brazil that the U.S. |
| 1:57.7 | really kind of dominated, like you said, besides that small hiccup. |
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