Lithuania are currently leading 42-40 at the half.
Spain have played like idiots offensively, regularly failing to make use of their best offensive options, much like they have in several games during the Olympics. Spain's defense has been excellent, forcing many shots against the shot clock buzzer and keeping Lithuania outside of the paint. They've also gotten a lot of turnovers. If they were playing with a single ounce of intelligence they'd be up double digits right now.
Lithuania is playing desperate on offensive as a result of the Spaniards pressure. They're resorting to three pointers and it was looking dodgy 'til they caught fire halfway through the second to pull back the deficit and build a lead (down 8 to up 6). Wonder if they can keep it up. Until Jaisitis caught fire with three threes, Lithuania had only two players with more than one basket, they were struggling.
Lithuania are playing very strong defense themselves, but Spain's offense is playing without intelligence and that's the major factor in Spain's troubles.
Anybody's game. Spain are clearly superior. If they lose it's because they've underperformed and right now their problems are on the offensive end.
Topic: Game updates (Olympic hoops) (Read 13715 times)