USA-Spain

Sigh, I just watched the US men’s basketball team beat Spain by 10 points or so in the Olympic quarterfinals. Along with everyone else in the lounge (including a couple of Spaniards), I was barracking for Spain, but everyone was absolutely appalled at the atrocious officiating. I’m not saying Spain would’ve won, but the refs totally killed a couple of Spain’s rallies with unbelievably horrible calls. It was easily the worst officiating I’ve seen in quite some time. People down here are surprised to find out that I don’t want the US basketball team to win, but they agree with me in my reasons, that they’re a bunch of overpaid selfish showboaters who really don’t care about winning, or who expect to win gold just by showing up. I really don’t foresee them getting past Serbia or Lithuania, I highly doubt the US will win gold this time. Maybe that’s what they need to give the NBA players a wake-up call to take the Olympics seriously again. That’s all for now, g’night.