Team USA beat Brazil, 80-69, but not before trailing at the end of the first quarter and needing a furious comeback to regain control.
USA Basketball Vs. Brazil: Americans Build On Lead In Third Quarter
Team USA failed to fully pull away from Brazil in its Monday night exhibition scrap at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C. The U.S. outscored Brazil 22-19 in the quarter to extend its lead to 59-51 entering the fourth quarter.
In an extension of the game’s running subplot, President Barack Obama told ESPN’s Mark Jones in a halftime interview that he thinks the 1992 “Dream Team” would beat 2012’s Team USA.
Read Article >USA Basketball Vs. Brazil, Halftime Score: U.S. Roars Back With 20-5 Second Quarter
It seemed at first like Team USA might have some trouble with Brazil in its last exhibition on this side of the Atlantic Ocean before the 2012 London Olympics. A throttling in the second quarter has the Americans back in control and up 37-32 at halftime, however.
USA Basketball ripped off a 16-2 run that wrested the lead back from Brazil in the second quarter, and fueled it with suffocating defense that led to multiple steals and easy lay-ups off of them. Team USA outscored Brazil 20-5 in the quarter, turning a double-digit lead for Brazil into a deficit in short order.
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