DAY ONE FOR MEN IN BEIJING
Yao Ming and
Dwyane Wade poured in 19 points and LeBron James 18 as the
“It was a difficult game against them,”
With President George W Bush and his father, former President George Bush, looking on from the stands, an electric Chinese crowd cheered for
The
EuroBasket 2007 winners
American JR Holden continued from where he left – after steering
“It was our first game and we were a little nervous,” the CSKA Moscow guard who turned 32 today, said later.
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Andrei Kirilenko, who carried the Russian flag in the Parade of Nations during the Olympic Ceremony, was there at hand to provide Holden support – with 15 points along with pulling down five rebounds.
Croatia had no trouble whatsoever in beating
With their outside shooting clicking almost to perfection, the Jasmin Repesa-trained Croats hit three-pointers almost at will, with Marko Tomas succeeding in all his four attempts.
The
“Our three-point shooting has been incredible, in the first half we were seven of eight from behind the arc and we finished with a percentage higher than 70,” Repesa said later.
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The latest triumph, an 81-66 victory for Los Chicos De Oro, came on Sunday on the first day of the Olympic men’s basketball competition in
The Spanish went on a 13-2 run late in the first half to take a 35-26 lead and stayed in front the rest of the way.
Argentina staged a dramatic comeback to tie the game but Linas Kleiza drilled a three-pointer with 2.1 seconds left to fire Lithuania to a 79-75 Group A triumph over Argentina.
The Baltic country did their customary damage from long range by burying 10 of 25 (40%) shots and opened up a 75-64 lead with 3:23 remaining on a pair of free throws from Sarunas Jasikevicius.
But
In the remaining game, Germany easily accounted for Angola 95-76.
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