After in their tune up for the Paris Olympics, the USA men’s basketball team has found themselves in some perilous positions the last two games. , and on Monday night Team USA found itself down three going into the fourth quarter against the reigning World Cup champions in Germany at the O2 Arena in London. In that fourth quarter, things remained tense as the two teams went back and forth, with Team USA grabbing the lead back thanks to some terrific defense and a relentless downhill attack.
Stephen Curry and Devin Booker provided a pair of tough and-1 finishes to put Team USA in front in the fourth. Euro-stepping on the Euros. 🇺🇸 x 📺 — USA Basketball (@usabasketball) A textBook circus act.
😱 🇺🇸 x 📺 — USA Basketball (@usabasketball) Then it became the LeBron James show, as the put together a bucket-steal-bucket sequence to give Team USA a three-point advantage late. LEBRON JAMES TAKEOVER 👑 Back-to-back buckets for King James down the stretch! USA-Germany | 📺 FOX — NBA (@NBA) However, the Germans would not go away quietly, finding some big buckets from Franz Wagner (18 points) and Andreas Obst (14 points), and cut the lead back down to one on a lob from Dennis Schröder (13 points, 10 assists) to Daniel Theis (13 points). Dennis Schroder block into the lob finish on the other end! USA-Germany | 📺 FOX — NBA (@NBA) But as was the case on Saturday night, LeBron was there to bail out the Americans.
James buried just their sixth made three of.