“Ricky Rubio and Kevin Durant traded blows like MVPs”: NBA Twitter reacts to 95-81 victory, with Kevin Durant guiding Team USA with 29 points

Tonoy Sengupta | 03/08/2021
"Ricky Rubio and Kevin Durant traded blows like MVPs": NBA Twitter reacts to 95-81 victory, with Kevin Durant guiding Team USA with 29 points

NBA Twitter reacts as Team USA massively struggles against the Spanish National Team in the Tokyo Olympics

 

The world has caught up, and Team USA has been getting a rude awakening to that fact over and over again during this tournament.

The superstars are there, the coach is there. Yet, USA just didn’t look even close to dominant until the very end of their game against Spain. And even then, other than Kevin Durant, who put up 29 points, on an incredible 59% from the field, no one really looked very good.

The team barely won this match, with a score of 95-81. Many expected them to dominate this game. So, the fact that most of the team was barely able to do anything until the final stages of the game, has disgruntled countless fans in the NBA community.

With the disbelief only increasing as the game goes on, let’s get into some of the stringer reactions from NBA Twitter.

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Even the victory for Team USA here is a worrying one. After all, the game shouldn’t have been this close in the first place.

There were more than just a few moments where fans thought that Spain would come away from the game triumphant. And of course, they let their disdain be known on Twitter. Here are just some of the posts.

 

 

We have to talk about Ricky Rubio here at least once. Despite being on the losing side of things, the Spaniard put up an incredible 38 points, on 69% from the field, and 57% from three. He was perhaps the biggest reason Spain was in this game for so long.

That aside though, with this victory, Team USA will be facing the winner between Australia and Argentina in the Semi-Finals. Who will be their opponents? Can they come away with the victory? Or will they finally collapse completely?

Only time will tell.

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Post Edited By: Tonoy Sengupta
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Tonoy Sengupta

Tonoy Sengupta

Tonoy Sengupta is a Senior Editor at The SportsRush. Coming from an athletically inclined family, he has been surrounded by sports ever since he was 4 years old. But, while initially pouring all his time into Football (soccer), at 14, Tonoy discovered basketball through the countless highlights of Stephen Curry humiliating players from Curry Land. And just like that, a fiery passion for the game was ignited within Tonoy. And soon after, he decided to become a student of journalism, graduating in 2022, and choosing sports as his area of interest. Today, you can find him spending 99% of his time browsing through every type of content on every team in the NBA, before uncorking everything he has found to the world. In the 1% he isn't doing this, you can find him playing Basketball, Football, Volleyball, or practically any other sport he has had the opportunity to learn.

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