The kings of the court have proved their dominance with a win against Team Serbia last Sunday at the 2014 FIBA World Cup in Madrid, Spain.
After a long and hard-fought battle to earn the title FIBA World Cup Champions, Team USA proved that they can bag the championship trophy even without players such as LeBron James, Kobe Bryant and Kevin Durant.
According to a statement from the team’s forward Kenneth Faried, ''It kind of was, again, a smack to our face, saying the U.S. was sending the B-team to go play in the World Cup, just because LeBron's not here, Kobe's not here, (Kevin) Durant's not here, doesn't mean anything. We can step up and win the gold, too. That's what we did tonight.''
With the absence of certain players Durant, Kevin Love and Blake griffin, everybody wasn’t expecting much from the USA. But Irving and Harden along with younger players played hard and took control over the ball and dominated the game.
As stated in a Yahoo Sports article, U.S Coach Mike Krzyzewski said, ''I think the results were dominant, but we had spurts of dominance in a lot of games,'' he said ''And we had tough games and then all of a sudden we'd have a spurt and it looked like we dominated. Tonight we had like about a 35-minute spurt.''
With a tremendous win by Team USA, Serbia takes home the silver medal while France takes the bronze medal after beating Lithuania last Saturday with a score of 95-93.
