Posts Tagged ‘Team USA’

Olympics: Redeemers Cook With Greece

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

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If the US/Greece game was supposed to be the Redeemers first test, it’s safe to say they passed with flying colors, winning 92-69. Once again, it was a large dosage of defensive pressure, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, LeBron [...]

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Olympics: Redeemers Roll

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

It was a ho-hum 97-76 victory for Team USA against Angola and while there are some things that could be criticized — 3-point defense continues to be largely absent — the outcome was never in doubt. Angola was complete outmatched and the times Team USA turned “it” on, they were putting up whatever points [...]

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Team USA Upends Team Aussies

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

If you are the coach in the above picture, I’m not sure what you’d make of your team’s 87-76 victory over an undermanned, yet gallant Australian National Team. It what was certainly their “toughest” game in their pre-Olympic exhibition tour, Redeem Team USA beat the Aussies by 11 points. Before the Australia game, [...]

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Dwyane Wade Is Getting Healthy

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Dwyane Wade is using these pre-Olympic exhibition games as an opportunity to show he’s fully recovered from the injuries that have plagued him since the Heat won the NBA Championship a few years ago. Judging from these following videos, I think he looks just fine.
First up, we have that nifty windmill/breakaway dunk against Team [...]

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Team USA Rolls Lithuania

Friday, August 1st, 2008

The US Basketball invasion of China continued this morning and Team Redeem didn’t disappoint, dispatching the Lithuanians, 120 - 84. Led by a resurgent Dwyane Wade (and a nasty, NASTY windmill alley-oop dunk), the Americans look unstoppable on offense. True, there were some defensive lapses, however, credit Lithuania for knocking down open looks [...]

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Redeem Team Cruises Against Turkey

Thursday, July 31st, 2008

I rose this morning at 7am CST in order to check out Coach K and the gang take on Turkey and I wasn’t disappointed by what I saw. Led by LeBron’s my-ankle-is-fine 20 point outburst, the team controlled the contest throughout, although there were a few defensive lapses.
However, worries about a lack [...]

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