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At various points of the Olympics, the United States men’s basketball team needed Klay Thompson to step up in a big way.
Sunday’s gold medal game was not one of those times: Thompson and Team USA clinched the tournament championship with a total annihilation of Serbia, 96-66.
Klay did end up scoring 12 points, but the fuel for the destruction came from two places: Kevin Durant’s 30 points in 30 minutes and some absolutely suffocating defense. (The latter of which Thompson certainly had a hand in.