Nigeria and Tunisia played in their first ever Olympics, but only one team could come up with their first ever win and that was Nigeria. Ike Diogu had a double double of 13 points and 10 rebounds, his teammate Al Farouq Aminu almost got a double double himself, but failed to grabbed that 10th board, he ended up with 10 points and 9 rebounds.
Brazil 75, Australia 71.
Brazil's depth demonstrated it will play a key role for them in this tournament. Barcelona Regal's player, Marcelinho Huertas, had a double double with 15 point & 10 assists, Leandro Barbosa scored 16 and Anderson Varejao finished with 12 points and 7 boards. Australia made a good come back in the fourth quarter, cutting the lead to two points, but couldn't take the lead. Patty Mills scored 20 points, David Andersen 14 points, 8 rebounds & Joe Ingles scored 15 for Australia.
USA 98, France 71.
The United States won the first quarter by a single point, and that was taking France's best punch of the day. Lebron James finished with 9 points, 8 assists, 5 boards & 2 steals. Kevin Durant scored 22 points and grabbed 9 boards. Tony Parker had a bad game with only 10 points, 1 rebound and 1 assist for France.
Spain 97, China 81.
Pau Gasol had 21 points & 11 rebounds, Juan Carlos Navarro scored 14, Jose Calderon scored 12 and Spain was too much for China. Spain started off slow in the first period and was only up by two, but they changed that in a hurry by scoring 34 points in the 2nd quarter and they didn't looked back. China's only consistant scoring came from Yi Anlian he played fantastic on the offensive end, hitting mid range jumpers and some impressive dunks, he finished with 30 points and 12 rebounds.
Russia 95, Great Britain 75.
The Andrei Kirilenko and Alexey Shved show was a phenomenal display of basketball. Kirilenko had 35 points (14-17 FG) & 4 rebounds. Shved almost got a triple double, he finished the game with 16 points, 13 assists and 6 rebounds. Great Britain was no match for Russia, there only was so much Luol Deng could do for Great Britain. Deng had 26 points, but shot poorly from the field.
Argentina 102, Lithuania 79.
Argentina's golden generation proved they will keep playing with everything they have, just like they've shown us many times before. Luis Scola scored 32 points, Manu Ginobili had a double double with 21 points and 10 rebounds and Carlos Delfino had 20 points (Including six three pointers) Argentina lead 51-39 at the half, but Lithuania couldn't stop them from scoring and lost the game by 23 points. Linas Kleiza scored 20 points and 7 rebounds & Paulius Jankunas contributed for 14 points for Lithuania.
Standings
Group A
United States 1-0 France 0-1
Argentina 1-0 Lithuania 0-1
Nigeria 1-0 Tunisia 0-1
Group B
Spain 1-0 China 0-1
Brazil 1-0 Australia 0-1
Russia 1-0 Great Britain 0-1
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