Yahoo Sports senior NBA reporter Jake Fischer and senior NBA Dan Devine examine Team USA's winning recipe as the Americans improve to 2-0 at the 2024 Olympic games in Paris. Hear the full conversation on “No Cap Room” and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen.

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I think the big thing through two games, obviously, you, you you mentioned it, there's no other team in the Olympic field that has 12 NBA players on it, let alone 12 players at the level of of what team usa can bring to bear.

Kino Canada gets close.

There is no team that can go to the bench and check in five all stars, right?

Or, or near all stars, right?

So it's becoming a sort of script in these games.

The starting lineup, whoever forms the starting lineup struggles a little bit with the other teams starters or maybe it's a tie game or maybe they're down a little bit and then Kerr goes to the bench and in comes in yesterday's case, Kevin Durant, bam outta Bao, uh Anthony Edwards and Drew Holiday came in to play with Steph.

Then about a minute later, Stephen Curry goes out and Derek White comes in and South Sudan just kind of stopped scoring for a while.

I think they did, they think they had 24 points over the next four or five minutes.

And then, you know, before you know it, what was a tense 1010 game is now a double, double digit usa lead and the game is basically over midway through the second quarter.

The thrust of that second unit, which was great in the exhibition games and we talked about that the line changes and now with Kevin Durant back in the fold and maybe no better indication of how, who starts and who doesn't, doesn't really matter than Kevin Durant.

I'd be admittedly coming off the injury but the most decorated scorer in American Olympic history, um, he's coming off the bench and seems fine with it and affords Steve Kerr the opportunity to just say we're gonna throw out bam as the backstop drew at the point of attack, Derek White at the point of attack, Anthony Edwards and Kevin Durant on the wings.

It's a miserable defensive experience for everybody they have to deal with and they can just play random offense on the other side of it.

Like you get a stop, you push and that's how America is gonna outclass everybody is.

You get a stop, you push offense, they cannot stop you.

The other way.

This questions about Steph, questions about n be questions about tatum, whatever the structure of this thing is a real monster and it gets rolling.

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