Didn't catch the game, but that's an absurd outcome. No doubt just effort-related. You essentially have an NBA All-Star team beast mediocre NBA players by 10? If they played tomorrow, they'd probably win by 30.
Remember when USA Select (maybe another name for them back then?) beat the Dream Team in their first scrimmage? The following day, USA Select gottwhipped by 50+.
we'll see, usa and aus are group 1 and 2, they will not meet each other again until final, when it really matters.
by the way, 10 points is not the true difference of this game, team USA was playing catch up half of the time, AUS is only 4 points behind when there's 2 minutes left, and USA starts to run the clock down, they made no attack in the last 2 minutes of the game, smart, but very hard to watch.