The fourth quarter had barely started and the United States had already relinquished a tenuous lead. A layup from Australia big man Joe Ingles put the Boomers up by two, and the heavily favored American men’s basketball team found itself in danger of dropping its first game Olympic game since 2004.
Earlier that evening, Carmelo Anthony had connected on a three-pointer from the top of the key to give him 276 career points in the Olympics, moving him past LeBron James for the top spot on Team USA's all-time Olympic scoring list. That came in the first quarter, one in which he drained four shots from downtown.
With less than nine minutes remaining in the game, Anthony once again had the ball, this time on his way to the hole. He bullied his way into the paint, absorbed the contact from Australian center David Anderson and finished a layup. A minute later, he drilled another shot from deep. The next possession, he caught the ball on the right wing, took a dribble right, crossed to his left and launched a rainbow over the outstretched right hand of Cameron Bairstow.
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