Team GB vs. Team USA Basketball Warm Up Games Wed 18th and Thurs 19th

richthomuk · 18 Jul 2012 at 15:24

Team GB Women (49th in the world) take on Team USA Women (1st in the world) today in Manchester as part of their preparation for the Olympics.

Team GB Women have played 15 games since the end of June when they started their warm up games, winning 8. They are 3 for 4 out of the last 4 games too and looking very stong with wins against much higher ranked teams such as France(8th), Canada(11th), Czech Rep(4th) and Argentina(12th).

Team GB Men (43rd in the world) play Team USA Men (1st in the world) tomorrow night in Manchester.

Azza · 19 Jul 2012 at 00:00

In work until 9 tomorrow so won't be able to watch the mens match.

Women made a very good account of themselves, if only we had more Jo's on the team!

Derek W · 19 Jul 2012 at 18:55

got bbc 3 on to watch team gb get their ass handed to them by the dream team

Azza · 19 Jul 2012 at 19:03

On my break so get to watch a little bit :-)

Azza · 19 Jul 2012 at 19:13

Will be interesting to see how GB deal with the pressure.

I want to see Love just dominate

Joel Freeland with the first basket of the match... We're gonna win the Olympics!!!!!!

Azza · 19 Jul 2012 at 19:16

USA missing dunks & layups!

Azza · 19 Jul 2012 at 19:35

USA are going to win this through superior athleticism alone.

Derek W · 19 Jul 2012 at 20:00

Azza said:
USA are going to win this through superior athleticism alone.

or just simply, they are the better team by a long long way!

Azza · 19 Jul 2012 at 21:23

78-118

Not surprised at all... Deng hit the nail on the head with the pressure, but it wasn't exactly major pressure high up the court it was just their PG playing strong man D.

Alexandra Burke called LeBron, James LeBron... what a ****wit! It's LeFlop, or LeBronda *sigh*

rG-tom · 24 Jul 2012 at 08:54

Hadn't noticed this section, so might as well post these in here too

From Wednesday" said:
There was a mix up with my accreditation and no enough floorspots, meaning I could only watch, but at least I had the best seat in the house!

Was actually sat next to Sir Clive Woodward, who is a really really nice guy!

From Thursday said:
Seats weren't QUITE as good last night, sat in the NBA PR seats on the baseline;

2nd is a link to a video