The Herd with Colin Cowherd - Hoops Tonight - USA-Serbia Reaction: Steph Curry & LeBron SAVE USA in SHOCKING Olympic comeback

Episode Date: August 8, 2024

Jason Timpf reacts to LeBron James, Steph Curry, and Kevin Durant saving Team USA in their dramatic 95-91 comeback win vs. Nikola Jokic and Serbia in the Paris Olympics. Jason discusses Curry's 36-point eruption, Joel Embiid's incredible performance, and shares why this is one of his favorite basketball memories of all time. Later, Jason reacts to Victor Wembanyama and France's semifinal win over Germany to set up an epic final vs. Team USA for the gold medal. Timeline: 6:00 - USA stuns Serbia 13:00 - LeBron, Steph & KD save Team USA 16:00 - Joel Embiid has his moment 20:00 - France beats Germany (Timestamps may vary based on advertisements.) #Volume #Herd Follow Jason Timpf on social: https://twitter.com/_JasonLT https://www.instagram.com/jtimpf15/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Well, I just witnessed my favorite basketball moment as a fan that I can remember in my time watching the game. That was incredible. as Team USA straight up dead to rights for three and a half quarters, with about seven minutes left in the fourth quarter, lock in and come back to beat Serbia on the strength of incredible performances from Steph Curry and LeBron James, some great late game contributions from Kevin Durant.

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Like, I, that was probably the most stressed out. I've been watching a basketball game since the 2016 finals in game seven. When obviously as a LeBron fan, I was rooting for them in that crazy game. But even then, the, the Cavaliers kind of controlled that game. They took a, I want to say they went up by like 11 or 12 points in like the mid third quarter. And yeah, it was close. and it was hectic and back and forth, but this game had a very different type of feel. Serbia straight up controlled this game for more than three quarters.

And every time the U.S. team would make a little run and cut it to eight or cut it to nine, Serbia would hit a couple shots and they'd get it right back up to 14, 15 points. They came ready to play today. And it was everybody. Nicole Yokic is the best player in the world and he was the best player in this game. And all of that was on display. The only weird thing with Yokic is he still can't hit a jump shot to save his life, which has been a continuing trend dating back to last season.

Don't know what's going on there. Hopefully he gets that worked out in time for next season. I just think they're going to need him to be able to hit those shots in order to get to where they want to go next year. But Yokic was incredible. And what was kind of funny is that the narrative, if USA would have lost, would have been like, Yokic defeats the stars of the USA by himself. But like, anybody who watched that game knows,

like even though Yokic is the best player in the world, the Serbian dudes came ready to play. Bogdan McDonovic was absolutely hooping, was cooking, hitting super tough shots. They had five different players hit multiple threes. They were defending well. They were flying around in rotation. They were crashing the glass. That Serbian team came ready to play, and they played well enough to give themselves

a really good chance to win the game. So I just want to tip the cap to Serbia, tip the cap to Yokic. He's an indomitable force, and it's so stressful watching him is like, you're watching him back down Anthony Davis or back down LeBron James or back down Kevin Durant and you're like, you feel hopeless, you feel utterly hopeless. And to those Serbian role players credit every single time, they double teamed every single time.

They came off the baseline cutter. It was a dunk or it was a three or was a dunk or it was a three. Those guys just had their tick-tac-toe in terms of how to handle the double teams down pat. Yokic was making the right read every time. Shout out to the Serbian team. They brought something something. special out of this team USA team that I think as basketball fans we were dying to see.

And it's something that if you look at the 2008 team, the 2012 team, the 1992 team, the three other kind of like super, super stacked team USA rosters, those teams, even though the 2008 team and 2012 team ended up in semi-competitive games, like they were never like profoundly threatened. And that really is what you saw in that fourth quarter is like what it looks like when you watch the best players in the world, specifically a team USA squad that usually doesn't get pushed to this point, when you watch them play desperate basketball. And desperate basketball is a very different type of basketball than the type of basketball that you see in a regular 82 game, regular season, right? There's a fierce attention to detail that you need. Every boxout matters,

every transition sprint matters, every single decision you make with the basketball, every jump shot carries a world of pressure. And what I thought was super fascinating is here we are in this predicament for Team USA. And the three greatest players of this era, LeBron James, Steph Curry, and Kevin Durant were the three guys for Team USA that stepped up and got it done. Steph, in the early portion of the game in particular, when Serbia was red hot in hitting everything, Steph was red hot too. And he kept USA close enough for them to kind of remain in that. striking distance so they could give themselves a chance to come back and make it a game. And then late in the game off of a monster screen from Joe L.M.B., a huge play from him there.

Steph breaks three on the left wing and knocks down the lead-changing shot to put Team USA up one. And then a big-time transition layup from him to a couple of clutch free throws. Steph Curry, who's had a nightmare time with Team USA, who I think his values understated because even though he's not making shots or hasn't been making shots, he's still been one of their primary like player movement pieces that's kind of maintained spacing. I think there's a lot of value that comes from that. Again, even though Steph hasn't been making shots, he's been guarded like he's Steph Curry, which carries a great deal of value. But as we were hoping, eventually Steph would break out and he broke out in a huge way tonight, 34 points, made a bunch of huge plays. He's at a

huge steal late to just tip of the cap to Steph Curry. That was a legendary performance from him. LeBron James, a triple double. I think he had 16 points. If I remember correctly, an assist to just two turnovers, 12 rebounds, was battling Nicola Yokic in that fourth quarter, fronting the post, absorbing the blows that allowed Joel Embed to kind of be in that backline ready to help behind him. He got a huge stop on Yokic in a one-on-one situation along the right side where he forced Yokic into a tough one-leg fade away and got to stop. A bunch of big situations where he was battling with Yokicch like situations where like LeBron knew he wasn't even going to get the ball. But he just was like,

I'm putting everything I have into this jump to just get a piece of it so that someone else might. His only job was to make sure Yokic didn't get the basketball. That is a tough job. And then on top of that, to dig deep for two massive transition drives. The one with where KD was in with him in transition, he finished with his right hand on the left side of the basket. Look at how explosive he was off of that left knee on that play. Like you could tell he poured everything he had into that play. And it kind of reminds me of like other moments in LeBron's career where it's like,

when push comes to shove, LeBron knows that he can just get that, that athleticism to engage in a way that makes him truly unstoppable in these short bursts even at his old age. I thought that was an incredible LeBron James performance. And then Kevin Durant, who had a rough first three quarters and was struggling to knock down shots, hit several huge jump shots late. Stefan LeBron were tired. they desperately needed someone to create a bucket. And there it was up to late clock situation.

If you don't score there, Serbia has a chance to go down to tie or take the lead. And it's like you either leave Yokach on an island and he ties the game or you double team and you give up a three point shot to one of these guys that's been hitting. And KD hits a nasty left to right crossover dribble and gets to that one dribble pull up off that right wing and effectively ices the game for Team USA. say. I was, I, I, I, uh, tweeted after the game about how I, I just, that was just such a cool moment for me as a fan. And, uh, one of my buddies, Tommy ended up quote tweeting and it said something that I thought was interesting. He said, one of the last legitimately legacy defining moments for all three of these guys and they came through. And it's true. Like, I don't think everybody's like worried about what Steph can accomplish with that limited warriors roster, what LeBron can

accomplished at 40 years old with the Lakers team that's super incompetent and doesn't have another player other than AD that can play both ends of the floor. Like, I don't think anybody really cares too much about that. Like, KD. Post-Aquillies, like, I think people know what Katie is and what he's capable of. But here in this setting, with this roster against a Serbian team that doesn't have as much talent, this was a true high-pressure legacy-defining moment for all three of these guys, and all three of them came through in a huge way. And, as a basketball fan, I just, I was, that was, that was just a really cool moment. And I, guys, we're not going to get very many moments like that as basketball fans in our lives.

And I'm just, it was one of those days where I'm thankful to get to do what I do for a living so that we can come on here and talk about it. It was just a ton of fun. Shout out to those three guys. I literally can't say enough about those three, just in that situation. There's so much part. They were down 15, I think, in the fourth quarter. like Steve Kerr, like the starters came in to start the second half and they were playing some really good basketball and they got it to like seven I think in the mid third. And then Kerr went to an all bench group to end the third quarter in Serbia immediately ballooned the lead back up.

And by the time the starters came back in, they were in a deep hole. And you got to imagine that going out there. You're walking out onto the floor. Steph Curry, LeBron James, you guys have the reputation as being the best American players of this era. and all of it is on the line. In a small sample with a huge deficit, you have to play damn near perfect basketball to close that game out, and they did.

I can't say enough about those guys, and I can't wait to get more and more into this when I have some more time, and I'm not running out the door to get to a flight. But one other USA player I wanted to shout out before we move on, Joel and B. 19 points on 11 shots. It was kind of a frustrating experience for me

as a basketball fan rooting so hard in this game because like Mbid got so many huge buckets in the fourth quarter but he also gave up four offensive rebounds where he was just getting beat to the ball by that slower center. I can't remember his name the other center that was playing with Yokic and I was like it was like I'd be like grab the fucking basketball and then like five seconds later he hit a huge shot. I'd be like damn that's a huge shot. That he'd give it up again. I'd be like what are you doing?

And then he'd go down to the other end he hit a huge shot. It was like just an incredible roller coaster as a fan rooting for Joel and beat in that moment. but I thought that was Joe Limbide's first, like, huge moment for Team USA. And I will always remember when we think back to the 2004 Olympic Team USA basketball team, I will always think back to the fact that Joel Embed, after really struggling through the exhibition games and through the pool play games, and even a little bit in that first round game against Brazil, he, although he hits a bunch of threes in that game, but he's been struggling defensively. He's been struggling in a bunch of specific details.

and all I can remember now looking back is like when the shit hit the fan and they needed somebody to step up and a bunch of guys on that team couldn't Joel Embed was one of the guys who did and I thought that was a huge winning moment for him. I'd like to see him tighten up some of those details. He needs to come down with some of those loose balls and those are the little details that'll be the next step that Joel takes to win the championship. If he wants to be an NBA champion, he's got to just bring that extra level

of competitiveness, that extra level of conditioning, that extra level of conditioning, that extra level of just savage competitiveness to get it done. I think he's going to get there. I think it's only a matter of time. But that was just a really cool moment for him too. And I'll always remember his contributions in that particular game. Shout out to Team USA. Shout out to Serbia.

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And offense is always the issue for France. Their guards just aren't very good. Evan Fournier didn't have as good. of a night tonight. He really rode their big guys. They're Gwreshaun Yabuselli and Matthias Lsort. Those two guys were just bullying guys on the blog. Yabuselli, I'm trying to get better at pronouncing these names. I appreciate

you guys who've been correcting me in the comments. Yabouseli had a bunch of really nice slashing possessions too, where he was getting downhill. He had a nasty dunk. Actually, Yabouseli is an interesting player. I'm not sure what his contract situation is overseas, but he looks like a guy who could play in the NBA to me. And then LaSort, just, Matthias LaSort, just big time post moves down the stretch. It was a huge moment where he had a big step through for like a little lamp right at the front of the rim.

And he had a huge moment where he's just running up and down the floor just screaming. He's too small. And I love, I, that's why I love basketball so much. There's like these unbridled, unfiltered moments of pure competitive expression that just that just make it like really truly special. And like today, today was just a fun day. as a basketball fan to watch all these games. But shout out those guys for carrying things on offense, but I really thought the defense was what got the job done for France.

They had a stretch where in the late third quarter, they had like 47 points, I think. And they didn't score. They had like 53 points like 10 minutes later. I can't remember the exact. I have to look it up again. I don't have the time for it today. But like they really locked in on defense in that late third quarter,

early fourth quarter stretch. And they just gave them enough opportunities to get out in transition. enough times to make enough plays to build enough of a margin to give them a chance to win that game. They almost blew it late as Germany came back hit a bunch of threes, but they ended up closing the deal. Victor Wemanniamma, classic box score watching games, same thing happened last game where it was like, I had a lot of guys going like, oh, you wouldn't even the best player on team. There was like, you only had seven points. And it's like he just does so much defensively to impact the game that extends so far beyond the box score.

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cutting down the middle, and he just ended up smoking the dunk, but it was a really nice pass that just kind of had an unfortunate finish. But again, just France USA is going to be a ton of fun. The home crowd element for France is going to be big. I would imagine that we'll see a little bit more of Gobert in that game just because of how much interior size that Team USA has. But man, that was, what a great day of basketball. I'm sorry, I can't get into more detail for you guys today, but I get back from Vegas on Saturday afternoon. So I do plan on doing a video on Saturday where we break down the gold medal game.

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