The United States didn’t send its best possible men’s basketball team to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. Not even close.
The squad played some sloppy basketball with too much one-on-one play and inconsistent outside shooting.
None of it mattered, though, as the Americans cruised to another gold medal — their third straight and sixth in the last seven Olympics — with a 96-66 win over Serbia on Sunday.
The U.S. completely dominated the Olympics with the Dream Team and Dream Team II in 1992 and 1996, respectively. The world began to catch up, though, and that was evident in 2000. By the time the 2004 Athens Games came around, the U.S. was n…