Our Olympic basketball betting picks see Team USA flagbearer LeBron James as far more than just a figurehead when he takes on Serbia on Sunday.
Olympic Men’s Basketball is now in full swing and Day 2 sees arguably the best collection of talent in Olympic history take the court as the United States tips off against Serbia.
LeBron isn’t a Top-5 NBA player anymore, though on any given play or any one game he can still summon the capacity to play as well as the very best in the world. The 82-game season grind and an increasing number of nagging injuries have robbed him of his once untouchable staying power, but in the right environment, he can still dominate.
On Sunday he’ll be called upon again as Team USA begins group play against Serbia. Serbia is a team with a lot of strengths, but interior defense does not figure to be one of them. Not only do they not have a good matchup for LeBron, but Serbia’s rim protection and ability to contain dribble penetration is in serious doubt.
Team USA has a lot of good shooters, but they don’t have many players who are willing to aggressively bomb it like Curry. Nor obviously do they have anyone close to as good as making the kind of aggressive attempts he takes. When Team USA dominated the recent exhibition, Serbia was on a back-to-back, Bogdan Bogdanovic didn’t play at all, and Jokic didn’t play in the fourth quarter. Serbia didn’t want to tip their hand in a game they knew they had no chance to win knowing they had a big game against the Americans coming up.
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