The Basketball World Cup started with a record crowd in Manila, Canada's 30-point stunner of a win over France and now has the U.S. set to make its debut in the tournament on Saturday.
It won't take long for the pressure to get turned up on some teams, especially those who fall in their first games of the World Cup.
Teams play only three games in the opening group stage. Every team that finished 2-1 or better in the group stage four years ago at the World Cup in China reached the second round; every team that finished 1-2 or worse did not advance.There are eight opening games Saturday, including the U.S. debut in the tournament against New Zealand at 8:40 a.m. EDT, and then play resumes Sunday with second games for those in Groups A, D, E and H.Group C : Jordan vs. Greece, U.S. vs.
Brazil lost to the Soviet Union by nine in a game early in the 1959 tournament before going on to win the title. Yugoslavia lost to the USSR by 15 points in its final game of the 1970 tournament — but had already clinched the gold medal, so that outcome was meaningless. The last team to lose any game in the World Cup and win the gold was the former Yugoslavia in 2002; that team went 7-2 in that tournament, then called the FIBA world championship. Both its losses that year were by exactly two points.Now, that sounds like a knock on the best league in the world, but really, it wasn't.
He was referring to the NBA practice of, in the final seconds of an already-decided game, teams usually just stop playing and let the clock expire.
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