USA Basketball continued their anticipated exhibition dominance on Sunday, following up a drubbing of Argentina with a summary dispatch of China in Las Vegas.
The fourth quarter belonged to DeMar DeRozan, who scored 11 of his 13 points in the frame. His mid-range game was on point, as is his trademark, and he even spent some time running the point
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Earlier, he got the opportunity to show off one of his trademark moves, the pump-fake up-and-under from the block.
Kyle Lowry finished with five points and five assists in 16 minutes, too, missing but a single free throw and declining to turn the ball over even once. Both Raptors’ All-Stars had much quieter games against former teammate Luis Scola on Friday, but this team is built such that different players are going to get their game by game.
The U.S. has three more exhibition games over the next week-plus. Yeah, they’re just tune-ups, but this is probably what people should expect from the prohibitive favorite in Brazil, at least until the medal round. Their first official Olympic game goes Aug. 6 against this same China squad.
