Team USA crushes Germany with no mercy

In the last basketball preliminary round between the dream team, team USA against Germany, ended with easy win for the dream team side. Team USA breaks their own record by crushes the Germany with the 106-59 in the last score line. They dominate from the tip off until the last buzzer. Team USA does not give Germany any chances since they always press the Germany, specially the Germany star, Dirk Nowitzky.
Less than seven minutes into the first quarter, the USA had taken a 20-3 lead, which only continued to grow with each quarter. The USA improved a 19-point advantage at the end of the first quarter to a 24-point lead at halftime, a 37-point lead after three periods and was up by 49 points as the final buzzer sounded
Like the last game against Spain, all of the team USA members score for the easy win at the wukezong arena, Beijing. Led by the slam dunk contest winner, Dwight Howard by 22 points and the 18 points from the LeBron James, team USA show no mercy to the Germany side. Kobe Bryant also scores 13 points when Chris Paul and Dwyane Wade scores 10 points.

The advantages of using press defense in basketball

The press defense system is commonly used in the high school varsity level. It can be defined as defense that extends the defense into the opponent’s back court. Before decide to use press defense, the coach need to think about team quickness, the stamina from the players, and the bench order. There are a lot of press defense systems in basketball. From man to man to zone press defense has their own advantage. It is depending on the player’s defense level and the tempo of the game.

Generally, a good press defense can produce back court turnovers, steals, and lead some easy baskets for the team. The fast break offense after a good press defense can be a superb offensive weapon. The press defense system can increase the tempo of the game. It will give some extra troubles for the opponent big man. The opponent will lose their tempo and they may do some silly and simple mistakes. The track racing basketball game will make the opponent with a good big man become confuse since they cannot maximize their big man. Implementing a good press defense will frustrate the opponent offense so that the team can get many easy baskets and control the game.

Doing press defense in basketball needs a well conditioned player with a deep bench. When the team has more quality bench player, the press defense system can be used all night long. With the press defense system, the team gets more chance to dictate the tempo, controlling the game, and winning the game easily. Rick Pitino, the legendary coach from Kentucky, has able to prove that using press defense can help to win the game. Rick and his team, Kentucky, won many games and the national title with using superb and well organized full court match up press system, one of the most famous press defense systems.

Type of Offense

There are only two types of offense: free-lance and controlled. In a free-lance offense, players make their own patterns, depending upon the defensive deployment and the ability of the opponents.


Free-lance is not as free, or uncontrolled, as the name implies. All two-on-two and three-on-three plays should always be part of your drills. Controlled offense is a set patterned offense. Both types must fall into one of the following classification, based on the position of the offensive players in relation to the basket and the defensive players guarding them:


Five Offensive Players Outside –
Four Offensive Players Outside and One Inside –
Three Offensive Players Outside and Two Inside –
Two Offensive Players Outside and Three Inside –
One Offensive Player Outside and Four Inside –


Offenses that begin from this structure are a 3-2 (wide) and a five-man weave. Normally this is a four-man weave system or a single type of offense in which the corner men are approximately 18 or 19 feet from the basket. Three offenses start from this structure:


A double-post places the two larger men in closer to the basket than the other three. The 3-2 offense may have three front men moving while the two inside men are stationary in close to the basket.
A 1-3-1 offense uses a tandem pivot, one high and one low.
An overload offense overloads one side of the court, passing the ball to the side that has only one player and having a teammate who was away from the ball cut off a post man toward the ball.


This is a standard 2-3 offense in which the forwards are within eighteen feet of the basket. This offense has four players close to the basket such as a stack offense which usually forces a zone to play you man-to-man.

Team USA beat the Spain in the Olympic

In the 4th preliminary Olympic game, team USA faces the FIBA world champions, Spain. The dream team plays superbly since they feel if they can beat Spain, they will win the Olympic easily. Since the tip-off, team USA always presses the Spain and plays the best they can. In the end of game, team USA beat Spain by superb 119-82.

Team USA beat Spain that easy because of hot shooting from behind the arc. Not like the awful first game from behind the arch against China, team USA is on fire against the Spain. The dream team beat Spain by 12 3 points shoot. No wonder all of the team USA members scored for their team. There are also 8 players who score double digit for the easy win from team USA.

LeBron James able to scores the highest 18 points when Dwyane Wade continue his superb performance in the Olympic by 16 points. The Denver Nuggets forward, Carmelo Anthony added 16 points. The backup point guard from team USA, Chris Paul and Deron Williams also very productive with score 14 and 11 points. Kobe Bryant also scores 11 points when Dwight Howard and Tayshaun Prince scores 11 points.

Team USA will face Germany in the last game of preliminary round. No matter what result from the last game, the dream team will be the 1st seed from the pool A in the quarter final. Team USA has proven himself by beat the world champions, Spain. They are now claims to win the Olympic basketball gold medal.

Sweet revenge by team USA

In the past FIBA world championship, team USA that predicted to be the easy winner had surprisingly defeated by superb three points shoot and defensive team by Greece. However, in the Olympic basketball game in Beijing, China, team USA pay their game. They keep their chances by beat Greece in the sweet revenge by 92-69.

Since tip-off, the Team USA members do not want to reduce their pressure into Greece. They do not want to lose against the Hyena army again. Team USA has able to play with full concentration until the end of game. If in the FIBA world championship Greece can bombard Team USA behind the arc, it is not happen again in the last Beijing Olympic game. Greece only scores a poor 22% of three points shoot.

In the other side, Team USA has able to break Greece’s defense. With a superb 18 points from the NBA MVP, Kobe Bryant and also the Toronto Raptors power forward, Chris Bosh, Team USA easily scored 92 points. The star from previous 2 games, Dwyane Wade also scored 17 points while LeBron James scores 13 points.

The win against Greece was make Team USA qualified to the quarter final. They also get a good confident before face the world champions, Spain. But, the main benefit from this win is that Team USA has success to the sweet revenge.