Props to Spain - mostly. They got a little over chippy at the end.

Regardless, I just watched an amazing basketball game. I’m going to say - or really hoping - that Spain basically played possum in the game we beat them in by 37 a week ago. Assuming so, well played, Spain.

At the half it seemed reasonable. The 3rd qtr was a bit of a wakeup call - and shortly into the fourth the game got down to 2 - very surprising. If so, that would make sense since I decided I should start semi-logging the event when there were about 8 minutes left:

Gold Medal Game, last 8ish minutes
8:13 left - 2pt lead for US
Kobe - big shot
7:44 - Lebron James gets 4th foul
Kobe passes it up to Darron Williams… 3!
Kobe - wow - and an assist to Howard.
Kobe for 3
Awesome defensive play by the US
Lebron makes it go
Spain’s Rudy Fernandez make a hell of a 3pt play. Bad Kobe.
Kobe just screwed Pao
4:14 left … 104 - 95 US
3:30 - Wow, Marc Gasol just leveled Chris Bosh - no foul.
3:10 - Kobe for 3, AND the foul AND Spain’s Rudy is out.
Announcers are telling me all the crap I’ve been writing down.
Kobe hit the free throw - 108 - 99
Rudy & Nemenez hit, US has a turnover - 104 - 108 US
Dwayne “mohthafucking” Wade drops a 3 - 27 for him, 111 - 104 US - 1:58
- Spain Timeout : The Final Countdown is playing coming out of it.
1:53 - Kobe gets his 4th foul…
1:20 - Spain has 11 more rebounds that US
Kobe makes *another* key shot - 113 - 105 US
Whoops, Spain - an Unsportsmanlike & Technical on one play… that Kobe gets to shoot? Dudes.
Golden. Props to Spain - seriously - except all that bs at the end. 118 - 107 US

Good. Way to get back there. Can we try to keep this up?

Also, 42 thumbs up to the women’s team for beating the living daylight’s out of everyone… again…

Ok, so NBC showed a collagey segment that was sweet… but then they showed a couple Winter Olympic clips… wtf?

Also, this: http://twitter.com/jessedp/statuses/897153307