Spanish Flies

The Spaniards will say they'll play better if they meet the U.S. in the medal round of men's basketball, but I'm not sure the Saturday blowout isn't indicative of how big the gap is. Argentina, Spain and Greece were supposed to be the challengers for the 'Redeem Team', but Greece and now Spain have been easily defeated.

Spain is an example of the influx of foreign players into the NBA actually helps the U.S. More of those guys are familiar to the NBAers. One of the disadvantages had been playing countries with players the U.S. didn't know.