Surprise?
At what point do we begin to recognize that nothing is sacred or certain in this Olympic basketball tournament? There's one thing of which we are relatively certain: The United States should probably finish ahead of Angola. Beyond that, apparently nothing can be dismissed, certainly not the Australians, who at last check were shooting 64 percent from the field and leading by four at halftime against the Americans.
As our colleague Jim Young pointed out, it's hard to tell with whom Larry Brown is having more difficulty communicating: The Bulgarian referees or his own players.
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