FIBA Basketball World Cup: USA Vs Iran
Basketball World championship favorites, the USA jerseys, have mastered 4 wins so far in the FIBA basketball world championship 2010; with a final world championship basketball score of 88-51 win over Iran, the USA is somehow translating the political conflict onto the basketball court, neglecting violence but enjoying a fair game of basketball between 2 political contenders. On the other side of the FIBA World Championship, Angola managed to win a bet on basketball, after stepping into the last 16 round by striking the German basektball jerseys by 92 to 88.
Serbia was also able to breach the knockout phase, with 1 more basketball game to spare; after thrashing the Australian basketball shirts by 94 to 79. Former World Cup winners Spain avoided an early elimination after a poor start at the FIBA World Cup… the Spaniards were obliged to strike hard against the Lebanon basketball team with a final basketball score of 91-57.
The Much-Anticipated basketball match of USA Iran was tackled with supreme sporting class, despite the presence of few rival fans having purchased the basketball tickets to watch this political conflict being settled on a basketball court…. note that the Abdi Ikpeci Arena was half empty.
What started like a balanced match was clearly highlighting the Iranian effort in a close game all along the 1st half before being out-raged by the American basketball team 2010 that created a 14-point deficit at the break. The American domination resumed, witnessing all 12 players of the Team USA onto the FIBA World cup scoresheet.
Iran’s Serbian Coach, Veselin Matic, told the basketball news reporters: "We held our opponents for a long period and it was only in the last seven minutes we ran out of steam. This is our first world championship and all this entertainment was good for us, it helped motivate my players to be at their best."
As the world cup game got whistled to its end, both basketball squads applauded the fans and embraced each other; remarkably, it was USA Coach Mike Krzyzewski praised Iran’s basketball effort, not to mention that it was Iran’s center Hamad Ehadadi who ended the game as the top scorer with 19 points and 5 rebounds by referring to the FIBA basketball stats.
USA Centre player Tyson Chandler told the basketball reporters during a live basketball interview that "It was a very good game and we had a lot of respect for each other."
US Centre Kevin Love carried the Team USA with 13 points while forward player Kevin Durant added 12 points; guard sharp shooter Derrick Rose swooshed 11 dots, with 1 point more than Danny Granger in what looked like a great combination of players and team work.
Germany basketball squad, that has earlier claimed a victory upon Serbia basketball jerseys was earlier tonight smashed by its Group A rivals Angola. The Africans led the game despite going through overtime but the European basketball team was unable to halt the 3-point shots of Angola.
Olimpo Cipriano poured in 30 points and fellow forward Joaquim Gomez added 16 to go with 14 rebounds as Angola sank an impressive 18 three-pointers from 40 attempts.
Serbia welcomed captain Nenad Krstic back from suspension and playmaker Milos Teodosic and they were instrumental in the win over Australia that sealed a berth in the last 16.
Teodosic hit one three-pointer after another to keep Serbia ahead when the Australians closed in, finishing with a game-high 19 points while Krstic had 14 and 10 rebounds.
"We committed too many turnovers but dominated the offensive boards and Thursday's final Group A match against Argentina should be a feast," Serbia's trophy-laden coach Dusan Ivkovic said.
Still reeling from two defeats in their opening three Group D games, Spain trailed Lebanon 22-21 after the first quarter but eventually ran out comfortable winners on the back of 25 points and eight rebounds from centre Marc Gasol.
Lithuania stormed back from a 24-11 first-quarter deficit to beat France 69-55 in Group D.
In Group C, hosts Turkey rallied to maintain their perfect record with a 79-77 triumph over Puerto Rico and in Group B Slovenia beat Brazil 80-77.

