Spain almost shocked the world with their overtime against China but don't expect this story to repeat again. I think that Spain still remember how Nowitzki closed them a door into Eurobasket'05 final and they will not understimate germans as they understimated China. 14.5 handicap looks close to fair line because I expect Spain to win by double digits but can't tell if it will be 12 or 17. Spain is still work only on 70-80% of their abilities and save mental and physical energy for deciding games.

The United States men's national basketball team is the representative for the United States of America in international men's basketball. Considered the best national basketball team in the world, Team USA is historically the most prestigious, and successful team in international competition, medaling in all fifteen Olympic tournaments it has entered, coming away with twelve golds.

However, Team USA's renewed dominance has lessened in recent years. Facing increased competition from international teams, helped in no small way by the expansion of basketball sparked by the 1992 Dream Team, the USA failed to win a medal at the 2002 World Championship, finishing sixth. The 2004 Summer Olympic team lost three games on its way to a bronze medal, a record that represented more losses in a single year than the country's Olympic teams had suffered in all previous Olympiads combined. But what a real chances?

Day 2 of Men Olympic basketball tournament is very difficult for betting but should be very interesting for watching with few great games like Russia - Croatia, Spain - China and Argentina - Australia. Let's review games in short.

 

 

Russia plays tough and smart in defense and I am almost sure that D.Blatt will find special tactic in defense to crash Iran offense. Offensively Iran looks like 60-65 points against better team but I expect them to score under 63 points because of Russian defense and bad 3 point shooting percentage.