PARIS — The morning after the United States men’s basketball team stormed back to beat Serbia in an epic, thrilling Olympic semifinal, the Americans started staring at what lays ahead on Saturday in the gold medal game.
Namely a physical, ferocious, flying-high French team … here in France.
At first Stephen Curry compared it to the 2008 NCAA basketball tournament, when his Davidson Wildcats rallied from 17 down to beat Georgetown, only to face another elimination game (the Sweet 16) against an unfamiliar opponent (Wisconsin) just days later.
“The challenge is you have to turn the page and prepare for a new team,” Curry noted.