FIBA USA vs Croatia in-game thread

[RichardMoss]

Schedule to start at 18hrs local time, noon ET, USA will make it's debut on group B of the Basketball World Championship. Been the Gold medalist on Beijing Games 2 year ago, the teams comes with the tittle of favorite, but a fact to consider is that comes to the FIBA World Championship in Turkey with 12 new players. Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski has stresses the importance of playing defense.

US will face Slovenia, Brazil and Croatia on the first round.

[Diesel79]

Rose and Durant....... without them USA would be in 10+ point deficit already

[jagaf22]

USA picking it up

[acarmelo1]

Basketball is really big on Brazil and Argentina

[zafzaf]

all begins with Defence

[jagaf22]

Good second quarter!

[RichardMoss]

At halftime US is leading the scoreaboard 48-26

[jjgold]

We look pretty good 1st half

[RichardMoss]

Final US 106- 78 Croatia

[jagaf22]

Good start to my day.

[PAYTON20]

We look pretty good 1st half

Good as gold JJ We were playing Croatia though...