En masse, Americans generally do not care about the FIBA World Championships or the World Cup of basketball. We get up for the Olympics because, hey: they’re the Olympics. But the rest of that stuff – not so much.
So while we still want the United State to win whenever they play, especially when considering that their rosters are always chock full of NBA players, when they lose, the reaction is going to be considerably more ho hum than if a fan’s favorite NBA team lost in the NBA Finals.
It sucks, but ultimately it doesn’t matter, and we’re just glad that everyone is coming back to their respective NBA teams healthy.