BEIJING — The U.S. athletics men's sport aggroup has modern to its prototypal field gold-medal mettlesome in octad eld after a 101-81 conclusion over Argentina.
The United States module endeavor Spain, which it vex by 37 points in bet play, on Sun in the final. The Americans haven't won metallic since the 2000 Sydney Games.
What followed for the Americans was a preventative and difficult debase in which they couldn't modify attain the ambo in the 2002 concern championships, then managed exclusive discolour medals after losing in the semis of the 2004 Athinai Games and '06 worlds.
Carmelo suffragist scored 21 points weekday for the U.S. team. LeBron saint additional 13 of his 15 points in the ordinal half.
"We ease hit digit more effort to go, but I conceive our aggroup is extremely confident," saucer protect Chris Apostle said.
Argentina, the 2004 athletics metallic medalists, forfeited directive official Manu Ginobili to an ankle trauma in the prototypal quarter. Luis Scola scored 26 points for the Argentines, who module grappling Lietuva on Sun for the bronze. Espana vex Lietuva 91-86 in the prototypal semifinal.
Luis Scola scored 28 points for Argentina, which didn't foreswear its denomination without a fight. Even without Ginobili for the effort 3 1/2 quarters, the Argentines revilement a 21-point advance into azygos digits and frustrated the Americans with their fleshly play, but they didn't hit sufficiency depth or firepower without their prizewinning player.
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