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00:02 I know Team USA is not star studded, but
00:05 they are just much better than the field here.
00:08 And you can see that by them being the clear favorite right now,
00:12 Gilbert, of -115.
00:14 So who is the challenger to Team USA this year?
00:17 Obviously, you got Greece at 19 to 1, so it doesn't look that formidable.
00:20 But I mean, it looks like everybody's kind of bunched up together outside of Canada.
00:25 Is there any team that could potentially make a run where maybe we could hedge
00:29 in a championship game?
00:30 >> One thing I will say about Canada, I think it's important to be wary of
00:34 Canada because Jamal Murray's status for the tournament is unknown.
00:38 But outside of Canada's national team, I do look towards Australia and France.
00:43 As France national team is a team that gave the United States problems four years
00:47 ago at the World Cup in China when the United States finished seventh place.
00:52 Rudy Gobert, Nicholas Batum, Evan Fournier, and Frank Nielakino are guys who
00:56 really play very well at the FIBA level.
00:59 Their games are very tailored to FIBA basketball, and the same could go for
01:03 Australia.
01:03 They have young players like Josh Gideon, Dyson Daniels,
01:07 who are NBA stars, up and coming stars in the NBA as well.
01:11 So if you look at those two teams and the NBA talent present on their rosters,
01:14 I think that they're best equipped to maybe give the United States some problems.
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