Yi struggles against Team USA defense - Olympics

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Team USA defensive dunkfest awes China; Croats gun Aussies, Bogut onto their arses; killer Lauren Jackson
Published 8/11/2008 by J.D. Mo at Milwaukee Bucks Blog - The Bob Boozer Jinx
One word: DEFENSE If you've been following the Olympic roads of Team USA and Australia and Andrew Bogut, what you witnessed Sunday morning in the teams' opening games was a stunning contrast in how to play basketball defense and how not to play basketball defense. Team Redeem, led by Jason Kidd, Kobe Bryant and center Dwight Howard, clamped one of the tightest defenses I've ever seen in an Olympics on an inspired, yet overmatched, Chinese team and won easily 101-70. The U.S. threw a full court man-to-man at China from the opening tip on, and didn't let up on or off the ball until the host team buckled about 15 ...

Monday Notes: Mo to Cleveland rumor, Team USA beats China, Australia falls to Croatia
Published 8/11/2008 by Alex Boeder at Brew Hoop
... impressions on Team USA/China. Not this time. Team USA got the ball got to the front of that rim, leaking out in transition when it could, but mainly keeping the Chinese team on its heels with fast (seriously, there was some velocity happenin' in Beijing today) passes that initiated the dunk-fest. Pat Forde of ESPN.com adds his thoughts on the historic Team USA/China game and event. Chris Sheridan writes that former Buck Yi Jianlian came up small against Team USA. Lang Whitaker at Slam recaps Team ...

Maybe they can't help it: Olympic disappointments, Michael Redd and the Bucks; Luke video time
Published 8/27/2008 by J.D. Mo at Milwaukee Bucks Blog - The Bob Boozer Jinx
With the Olympics ending and the British proving the old axiom that if you have Led Zeppelin at your disposal, it's probably in your best interests to play some ...  And now with the Democratic convention underway proving again one of its most tried and true party axioms -- that Ted Kennedy doesn't really resonate with the working class in Middle America, a fact which won't stop the party from trying (he's not well and I'm sorry, but party Democrats must realize by now how much Republicans appreciate the inclusion of Ted Kennedy at every presidential convention). ... .. It's only fitting that our Bucks proved an axiom of their own ...