In a quest to prove that they are just as good as the “Dream Team’ of Olympics past, USA men’s basketball beat France today 98-71. Kevin Durant added 22 points while reigning MVP Lebron James was all about sharing with eight assists. “It wasn’t perfect,” James said. “We’ve still got room for improvement. We had too many turnovers, too many fouls and we had a couple of defensive rebounds we could have come up with. But overall, we played a pretty good game for as close to 40 minutes as possible.” The team started out a little slow and got themselves into some foul trouble early on, but they were never in any danger of losing. France, led by San Antonio Spurs superstar Tony Parker, never really overpowered the US. By the third quarter, the lead had gotten so wide open that Bryant, James, and Durant were able to sit the bench and rest for most of the fourth quarter. Even the teenager, Anthony Davis, got in the game for his first Olympics experience. America did get lucky with France only making one out of 11 attempts from the three point line.
