Against the U.S. basketball teams, the world was second
Almost everyone, it seemed, had a pet theory of how and why the unthinkable could happen. The U.S. men's and women's basketball teams, so the reasoning went, might look invincible. But they were pickup squads, assembled in March and still learning one another's moves, matched against seasoned teams, in some cases professionals. They would play on the slightly different international court, under different rules; the men would face unfamiliar zone defenses that would force them to shoot from outside rather than dazzle with dunkmanship....
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