{"id":34,"date":"2004-08-15T15:52:18","date_gmt":"2004-08-15T20:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/archives\/2004\/08\/15\/dream-team-loses-to-puerto-rico\/"},"modified":"2004-08-15T18:01:51","modified_gmt":"2004-08-15T23:01:51","slug":"dream-team-loses-to-puerto-rico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/archives\/2004\/08\/15\/dream-team-loses-to-puerto-rico","title":{"rendered":"Dream Team Loses to Puerto Rico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Or should I say <span style=\"text-decoration:line-through\">Dream<\/span> Team.  Yes, we did not send our best to Athens. Yes, the international teams have gotten much better.  Still, how can you <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/oly\/summer04\/basketball\/news\/story?id=1859825\" title=\"ESPN.com-Puerto Rico stuns Team USA with decisive win\" >lose 92-73<\/a> to a team that is not even in medal contention. It was terrible watching the game. Most of the players looked timid, shots didn&#8217;t go down, and Puerto Rico shut down Tim Duncan, the team&#8217;s best player.   Everybody knew winning the gold would not be easy, but can we even medal? <\/p>\n<p>Sidenote: It was great seeing the highlight of Manu Ginobili&#8217;s last second shot to help his Argentina team <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/oly\/summer04\/basketball\/news\/story?id=1859613\">win<\/a> their game over Serbia-Montenegro.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Or should I say Dream Team. Yes, we did not send our best to Athens. Yes, the international teams have gotten much better. Still, how can you lose 92-73 to a team that is not even in medal contention. It was terrible watching the game. Most of the players looked timid, shots didn&#8217;t go down, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hide_page_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4urv-y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.javiers.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}