USA vs. Slovenia

The first half of basketball was not the cleanest half of basketball the US has played in the tournament.  Curry picked up 3 early fouls and they did not shoot the ball well (38%).  Offensive rebounds and converting off turnovers kept the US in the lead.  The US picked up the effort defensively in the 3rd leading to 37 points in the quarter.  The biggest change for the US was the play of James Harden who scored 12 in the 3rd after going scoreless in the first half.  The fourth quarter was more of the same with the US blowing the game open and winning by a final score of 119-76

Slovenia ran some nice action side out action to get a look late in the shot clock.

2 inbounds to 4                                                        2 sprints for hand off from 4
1 used cross screen from 5                                     4 then pins down for 1


The US used this lob play in the 3rd 

1 ( Irving) passes to 2 (Thompson)                          5 (Davis) screens for Thompson                    
Irving the cuts opposite                                            Thompson passes to Gay
4 (Gay) pops high                                                    Gay immediately looks for lob to Davis