RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) " Up until Wednesday night, life in Rio was pretty good for the U.S. men's basketball team. Then an Australian team with a little pedigree of its own served notice that maybe the Olympic gold medal isn't such a foregone conclusion after all. This was an Australian team plenty confident in its own abilities, a team that has played together in various incarnations for years. You beat a team that was undefeated and has played together for years, a really good basketball team so I don't know how that could not be good for us." We're going to play the same way if it's the top team or a low-ranked team."

Source: New Zealand Herald August 11, 2016 01:41 UTC