Athens 2004 - Basketball


Well today was the first event for the Olympics that I go to. Needless to say the experience was actually amazing. The main event of the day for me was the Basketball.

USA vs Australia

The main people there were Tim Duncan, Allen Iverson, Lebron James, Shawn Marrion. The rest of the guys I’ll be honest I wasn’t really aware of. Could possibly be college kids, but damn they did put on a mini-show. Makes me wonder how amazing it might have actually been to have seen the first, and possibly the second Dream Team. Shame that they didn’t take this little tournament as seriously as previous ones. This isn’t a Dream Team by any stretch of the imagination, but it is very cool to watch a few of these guys do some absolutely stupendous dunks, and passes and whatever else comes.

Puerto Rico vs Angola This was an interesting game as well, seeing as Angola nearly won, or at least gave them a run for their money. Condsidering Puerto Rico beat the USA team, makes you wonder if they had better luck were the Angolan team could have gone?