Again, the USA narrowly pulled out a victory, this time over Serbia. Kyrie Irving was the leading scorer for the United States, chipping 15 points and 5 assists. For Serbia, Denver Nuggets big man Nikola Jokic led all scorers with 25 points on 73% shooting.
Team USA opened up this game playing some of their best basketball at Rio. Punctuated by drive and kicks, the US racked up easy look after easy look, which led to them scoring 27 points on 50% shooting. The story of this quarter, however, was the eight turnovers by Serbia.