Olympics Day 4: Americans Destroy Spain

I’m going to be totally honest: I didn’t catch the first half of the Team USA game and wasn’t able to see any others this morning so this entry will be geared much more toward the future of this basketball tournament at the 2008 Beijing Olympics than it is about reviewing today’s action. There is [...]

Olympics Day 3: Redeem Team Gets Payback

The Raptor Core returns for the third installment of analysis for the basketball tournament at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. I managed to catch the Spain and United States games, so those will be the ones I cover. Here are the other scores from Day 3, except for the Argentina/Croatia game to be played after this [...]

Olympics Day 2: Spanish Comeback & Team USA Rout

The Raptor Core is back again to review Day 2 of the Olympic basketball tournament in Beijing, with games that took place on Tuesday morning. Here are the results of the day’s games (two of which happened late Monday night in the Eastern time zone):
Lithuania def. Iran (99-67)
Croatia def. Russia (85-78 )
Greece def. Germany (87-64)
Spain [...]