As mens basketball competition has been heating up, Team USA has sort of been struggling of late. In their first two games they blew out China and Venezuela, but then struggled against Australia and Serbia. In the game against Australia, the US didn't take the lead until the fourth quarter. It also took Carmelo Anthony's lights out shooting for the Americans to top the Australians. In that game Carmelo Anthony, Kyrie Irving, and Kevin Durant were the only people on Team USA to score in the fourth quarter, and Durant scored two points on free throws at the end of the game. Team USA won by 10, but it wasn't a pretty game.

In the game against Serbia, there was shortage of offense, beating the Serbians by a score of 94-91. In a brief highlight tape of the game, all that was shown was offense by the Americans. Team USA couldn't stop Nikola Jokic, as he dropped 25 points on 11 of 15 shooting. Another area where Team USA lacked was their bench play only scoring 37 points while getting some good minutes. At the time of this writing Team USA will face of against a tough France team on Sunday.

Some players on Team USA have been playing well, and some have been playing terribly. Kevin Durant and Carmelo Anthony have been playing really well for the Americans, averaging 16.8 and 16.5 points per game respectively. On the other side of the scale Klay Thompson and Draymond Green have been playing really poorly in these olympic games. Both warriors in the four games have combined to score 23 points, which is less then what Carmelo scored against Australia. Klay Thompson is shooting a dismal 15% from the field and 18% from three. Klay is one of the players I thought would have done well due to the play of international basketball. Draymond is averaging 3 points per game on 33% shooting from the field.

I don't know what is wrong with Team USA, but if they keep playing like this they might lose.