Team USA has been playing tuneups to get ready for FIBA play and going into Saturday’s game against Spain, the US was 2-0, having won against Puerto Rico, 117-74 and Slovenia 92-62 (Luka Doncic did not play, however).
Spain was on a different order of magnitude though. Currently ranked #1 in the world, ahead of the #2 Americans, the game was held in Malaga, Spain.
Spain has a team that has been together for years - Rudy Fernandez has been part of it since 2004 which is insane.
The US team by comparison is quite young.