James added 18 points. Williams posted nine points and five assists in 19 minutes and Boozer had six points and six rebounds in nine minutes, mostly at the end of the game.
The Jazz teammates would have enjoyed an Olympic reunion with Andrei Kirilenko, but Australia knocked out Russia in a critical game Saturday, one of three straight wins for the Aussies to complete pool play. So Bogut gets another shot at the Americans, after playing respectably against them in the preliminaries in 2004.
Between his freshman and sophomore seasons at the University of Utah, he posted 11 points and eight rebounds in an 89-79 loss in Athens. "Hopefully," he said then, "with one or two more years under my belt, I can really make a difference in games like this."
He's a three-year NBA veteran now, but this is also a much different U.S. team. Australia coach Brian Goorjian described the quarterfinal pairing as a chance to "take a swipe at the big dog," but the Americans are biting everybody.
When they break the huddle after timeouts, they yell, "Dominate!" The result to date is an average margin of 31 points, which may or may not change in single-elimination play.
"Wait 'til you see what comes next," Boozer said
No comments:
Post a Comment