The U.S. is the best, but Japan is the most fun and it’s not really close.
There’s no question that the U.S. women’s basketball team is the best team in the Olympics and will almost certainly bring home gold.
It’s a smooth running machine and everyone else has been pretty much road kill.
But the Japanese team deserves a special mention because those women somehow got really good at basketball and for the first half anyway, gave the U.S. all it could handle and then some.
In the third quarter, the Americans made it clear that the game was over.