Thursday, August 14, 2008

Redeem Team Strikes; Cooks Greece's Feta 92-69

Finally, after 23 months, the US team avenged their 2006 World Championship quarterfinal loss to Greece, the last loss Team USA has endured. Some tasty morsels I have picked from the Informational Bread known as the Internet:

1. The "greatest self-trip in the history of basketball" is unfortunately not available through youtube. Fortunately, there is still an nbcolympic.com route by which you can see it, though a bit a circuitous. Simply, go here and click China under "By Country." Then choose the video "Highlights: Gasol, Spain defeat China." If you have to download software, it's worth it to see Carlos Jimenez do something I thought was physically impossible at the 1:05 mark.


More forthcoming...

3 comments:

JohnnieC said...

I bet you just need to search in spanish on youtube. I found some clips from that game at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHgP1_wY9J0&feature=related

JohnnieC said...

K, I may never find that video, but this link, right here will take you to an article that at least mentions the flop. I'm on the right track!

Evin Demirel said...

Nice work -

In the final seconds of the second quarter, Yao grabbed a rebound and fired a perfect outlet pass to Liu for a fast break layup while Spanish captain Carlos Jimenez could only throw himself onto the floor in frustration.

But oh how the visual doth satisfy ever more!