America is Still Awesome

It's been over two weeks since I wrote that America is awesome, more specifically the Men's World Championships Basketball Team. Guess what. We still are.

Since then we've only gone 7-0, five of those wins being exhibition games. The last two though, played this morning and yesterday, have counted, being the first two preliminary games of the official 2006 World Championships. How have we done in those two games you ask? Well we beat Puerto Rico for the second time in two weeks, 111-100, and this morning (all the games are 6:30 AM, which is a pain in the ass) we beat down on China (Yao Ming included), 121-90.

That's the smell of a good team you're sensing right now. People were worried after we beat, yes beat Brazil 90-86 on August 8th. It's my opinion that you're in damn good shape if people are worried after you win by four points. That's been the closest shave so far. In the seven games we've averaged 112 points, and only allowed about 81 (for full results so far, click here.

These guys are gelling, and from what I know the team is set from here on out. LeBron, D-Wade, and Carmello are proving that it doesn't take age, or a ton of experience really, to be good captains. You need skill and the ability to carry a team, which each have shown they can do (you'll remember they all took their teams to the playoffs last year, Wade and the Heat winning the title).

Yeah, we're in good shape. I'm not saying we're a lock to win the Championships, because we're not. Argentina won it all at Athens and hasn't lost much of its firepower. Germany has Dirk Nowitzki and Pau Gasol. But hey, we're America, and we're awesome.