USA BASKETBALL HISTORY
USA MEN’S OLYMPIC TEAM 2000 RESULTS
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA • SEPTEMBER 15-OCTOBER 1, 2000
The 2000 U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team did what they were sent to do: they won the Olympic gold medal.
The U.S. opened play on Sept. 17 and behind Ray Allen’s 21 points recorded an impressive 119-72 win over China. Utilizing a balanced attack, the U.S. handed Italy a 93-61 setback. Receiving 14 points from Gary Payton, despite Lithuania never letting the U.S. break away, the U.S. posted a nine-point victory, 85-76. New Zealand was defeated 102-56 win as Vince Carter and Allan Houston scored 18 and 17 points respec- tively. Closing out preliminary play against France, relying on 20 points and 11 rebounds from Antonio McDyess and 19 points and 11 boards from Kevin Garnett the USA secured a 12-point win, 106-94. Meeting Russia in the quarterfinals, the USA led by five at halftime and went on to record an 85-70 win as Jason Kidd posted 10 points, a game high eight assists and seven rebounds, while Garnett added 16 points and 11 rebounds. Facing Lithuania again, this time in the semi- finals, the U.S. was forced to rally back in the game’s final 90 seconds and only after Lithuania’s desperation 3-pointer fell short as time ran out did the U.S. claim a tight 85-83 victory. Carter paced the U.S. scoring attack with 18 points, Mourning had 16 and Garnett finished with 12 points, 14 rebounds. The USA faced France for the gold medal. The Americans, behind 13 points from Allen and Carter, led the entire game and despite opening a 14-point lead early, were unable to put France away. France rallied to within four, 76-72 with 4:26 to play, before the U.S. once again reassert- ed itself and pulled away for the 85-75 victory. Offensively, the U.S. averaged 95.0 points a game and all 12 players scored between 14.8 and 5.5 points a game. Carter led the U.S. in scoring and was third overall for the Olympics averaging 14.8 points a game.
2000 USA MEN’S OLYMPIC TEAM ROSTER
2000 USA RESULTS (8-0)
NAME
POS HGT WGT AGE AFFILIATION (SCHOOL)
China
W, 119-72 W, 93-61 W, 85-76 W, 102-56 W, 106-94 W, 85-70 W, 85-83 W, 85-75
Italy
Shareef Abdur-Rahim
F
6-9 6-5
230 205 240 225 220 195 200 212 220 261 190 221
23 25 28 23 24 34 29 27 26 30 32 31
Vancouver Grizzlies / California ‘96 Milwaukee Bucks / Connecticut ‘96 Seattle SuperSonics / Hartford ‘93 Toronto Raptors / North Carolina ‘98 Miami Heat / Texas El-Paso ‘89 New York Knicks / Tennessee ‘93 Phoenix Suns / California ‘94 Denver Nuggets / Alabama ‘95 Minnesota Timberwolves / Farragut Academy H.S. (IL)
Ray Allen Vin Baker
G
Lithuania
F
6-11 6-6 6-11 6-0 6-6 6-4 6-9 6-10 6-4
New Zealand
Vince Carter Kevin Garnett Tim Hardaway Allan Houston
G/F
France Russia
F
G G G F C G G
Lithuania
Jason Kidd
France
Antonio McDyess Alonzo Mourning
Miami Heat / Georgetown ‘92
Gary Payton Steve Smith
Seattle SuperSonics / Oregon State ‘90 Portland Trail Blazers / Michigan State ‘91
6-8
FINAL STANDINGS
2000 USA MEN’S OLYMPIC TEAM CUMULATIVE STATISTICS Head Coach: Rudy Tomjanovich (Houston Rockets) Assistant Coach: Larry Brown (Philadelphia 76ers) Assistant Coach: Gene Keady (Purdue University) Assistant Coach: Tubby Smith (University of Kentucky)
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
United States (8-0)
France (4-4) Lithuania (5-3) Australia (4-4)
Italy (4-3)
Yugoslavia (4-3)
NAME
G/S
FGM-A
PCT
3PM-A
PCT
FTM-A
PCT
REB
PTS
AST
BLK
STL
Canada (5-2) Russia (3-4)
Carter Garnett
8/5 8/5 6/6 8/2 8/2 7/4 8/2 8/1 8/2 8/4 8/6 8/1
41-81 37-68 22-37 28-52 23-36 18-38 27-40 17-31 11-24 16-31 15-43 15-39
.506 .544 .595 .538 .639 .474 .675 .548 .458 .516 .349 .385 .519 .390
11-27
.407
25-36 12-19 17-20 12-12 18-31 8-10 17-21 23-29 12-15 12-17 7-15
.694 .632 .850 .581 .800 .467 .810 .793 .800 .706 .600 .722 .682
29/ 3.6 73/ 9.1 25/ 4.2 24/ 3.0 13/ 1.9 47/ 5.9 26/ 3.3 19/ 2.4 42/ 5.3 17/ 2.1 11/ 1.4
118/14.8 86/10.8 61/10.2 78/ 9.8 64/ 8.0 56/ 8.0 61/ 7.6 51/ 6.4 49/ 6.1 48/ 6.0 44/ 5.5 44/ 5.5 760/95.0 587/73.4
11 17
1 3
8 9 1 7 3 0 4 3 2 9 9 2
0-0 0-2
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9. Spain (2-4) 10. China (2-4) 11. New Zealand (1-5) 12. Angola (0-6)
Mourning
.000 .526
8
14
Allen Baker
10-19
1.000 15/ 1.9
10
2 4 0 1 0 3 1 1 0
0-0
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6 7 8 1
Houston McDyess
12-20
.600
0-0 0-1 4-9 4-8
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Abdur-Rahim
.000 .444 .500 .200 .344 .422 .281
Smith
11 35 27 12
Kidd
Payton
2-10 11-32
Hardaway
3-5
USA OPP.
8 8
270-520 187-479
54-128 50-178
166-230 163-239
341/42.6 200/25.0
153 106
30 17
57 35
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