Survived first acid test

August 31, 2010 | Posted by Benjie

Photo Courtesy: NYSportsJournalism.com

Team USA escaped a nail-biting 70-68 thriller over reigning FIBA-Americas champion Brazil in the ongoing preliminaries of the 2010 FIBA-World Champiosnhip in Turkey. It was a very tough night for the Americans that the game went through the last tick of the clock. Early on, the Brazilians taught the Americans neat basketball fundamentals. But Team USA, the reigning Olympic champions, hanged tough through the endgame.

As I mentioned in my post dated August 14, the Americans has to go through an eye of a needle to reach the finals of this world championship. It was the first game in this tournament that they were pushed to the limit. And this won’t be their last either. I believe there are five more teams that are capable of winning over them such as Puerto Rico, Argentina, Spain, Serbia and Greece. The Americans were just lucky enough to survive its first acid test.