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WBB: USA vs Serbia semifinals

Here’s a quick preview of tonight’s game:
Tip-off: 12:40 AM eastern
Watch: NBC (but given NBC’s habit of interrupting live sports to show last week’s gymnastics, you might want to have the live stream on the NBC app or NBCOlympics.com handy as a backup)

Serbia isn’t known as a women’s basketball power, but they upset powerful China in the quarterfinals, so as Dawn Staley said, that’s all she needs to know. “They did a tremendous job of doing that. They played inspired basketball. And that's a scary thing, because you want to play your best basketball during this time.”

Multiple players described Serbia is “tough.” Sue Bird said when she played overseas “You always had a baller on your team, and it was a Serbian player.”

USA and Serbia played last year in the Olympic qualifying tournament. USA won 88-69, led by 16 points and 7 rebounds from A’ja Wilson.

Wilson was relatively quiet in the blowout win over Australia in the quarterfinals with only 10 points and 4 rebounds. But she barely played in the second have as her heroics weren’t needed.

The mother semifinal is between Japan and France. The Americans beat both in the group stage, although they got a big scare from Japan.

Anybody collect Autographed mini helmets??

Delete if not allowed.. but I collect the different helmets… so far I have Clowney, Shaw, Spurrier, Swearinger. Last week I sent offers on 2 Jaycee Horn minis… not thinking they would get accepted they both accepted. So now I have 2… I’m willing to let 1 go if somebody is interested for what I have in it ! I can upload pictures if somebody will tell me how to do it 🤣

Watching night at the museum

For those who don't know Ben Stiller is a night guard at a New York museum where the Egyptian tablet of Akmun-Ra makes all the exhibits come to life between sunset and sunrise.

I wonder, just letting my mind ramble way out. What would happen if someone stuck that tablet of Akmun-Ra in the Pro Football hall of fame, how wild would it get after dark, and what would be some of the interesting things that would make that a sight to see.

August quick update FYI

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@pepsicock aka my nemesis, Metstradamus (speaker of false prophecies) 🤔🤔 The Flat Soda Jerk (sometimes just Jerk for short). This is how you troll Brother 😂😂😂😂😂

Brought to you by Members of the Gamecocks Central Braves Baseball ⚾️ Chat 💬. 😎😎 The Tribe is always watching 👀🤔🤔

August 2020 or August 2021 Gamecock football teams. Which roster is better?

We had no clue we were going to be that bad in 2020 this same time last year. Do we think we have significantly better players this year? I would say we have a lot of unproven players and a lot of question marks + a few less NFL players but maybe a little bit older and more experienced in spots. I think it's very realistic to argue we were much more proven and talented last year than this year, it just all went sideways with injuries, opt outs, and coaching.

Are we thinking a coaching change alone with a less talented roster is going to significantly improve the season? I think the answer is yes by a few games. I think with the COVID stuff, injuries and such a hot seat for the coaches had the team with so many distractions it was just an impossible season. I feel like this season the players will have this huge weight lifted off their shoulders and can just have fun and play football. We won't be world beaters but they can be better just by getting back to basics and a fresh perspective and not trying to save their coaches job etc.
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