USA, Aregentina, Spain and Lithuania onto the Semi finals

I first have to say that USA definitely made up for their previous half hearted win over Australia with a 30 point beat down this mourning. The Aussies had a lot of confidence going into this one, claiming that they weren’t afraid of the Americans and that they would give them a fight. There were reports on various American basketball news publications that the they wouldn’t be surprised if the Americans lost to Australia but, all true hoops heads would knew that the Aussies had no chance of winning. The Americans made mince meat of the Spanish team that won the World Championships in 2006 and they also beat the Greek team by more than 20 points in , who we all know beat them in that very same tournament in 2006.  It’s amazing how a few losses in previous world competition can put a sour taste in the hearts of Team USA fans and sports analysts alike that they would go onto to say that the Americans had no chance of beating a weak Australian team.

Spain went on to demolish Crotia in a game where Calderon showed to me whay he is going to be one of the best point guards in the league. He is so cool calm and collected when plays, he knows when to pass and when to shoot. It is hard to know when to pass and when to shoot because if you always pass and you don’t get into an offensice groove your not going to be able to hit big shots down the stretch of a close game.  However if if you shoot too much and you down get your teammates involved enough they aren’t to play well, Chris Paul does a good job of this as does Deron Williams. This is how much I think of Jose and to be honest I’m getting tired of hearing all this talk about Ricky Rubio, he’s a good player but, people have been  putting so much hype on this kid and he hasn’t lived upto it. I know he’s 17 and he’s paly againist the best in the world in this torunament but, he has scored more 7 points or had more than 5 assists even againist the weakers teams in Pool B. in Pool B play Spain played againist Germany, China and Angola who all don’t have good guards on their teams and he still didn’t show domiance over these guards.