puerto rico! ho!!
“We couldn’t hit anything. I shot two off the side of the backboard. Never in my life have I done that,” Richard Jefferson said. “This was a worst-case scenario.”...
“International basketball is so different from the NBA,” Jose Ortiz said. “They probably didn’t know because of how young they are. I saw them a little panicked, but they were down 20 points, what can you do?”
Whistles and jeers greeted the Americans as they emerged from the locker room after halftime, but the crowd gave them some support when they tried to get back in the game in the third quarter. But each time the Americans tried to make a run, Puerto Rico had an answer.
“They play the game the way it’s supposed to be played,” Iverson said. “It’s not about athletics. That’s the game the way Karl Malone and John Stockton play it. It’s good for kids to see how the game is supposed to be played.”
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16 August 2004, 15:16 ::
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