He pointed out that a lot of these less talented teams have been playing together literally since they were teenagers, for like 10-15 years. In these early matchups and/or scrimmage situations, you can’t just assume that the team with the most talent and far less experience playing together can phone in a win against a squad that knows their rotations, knows their cut timings, knows their teammates’ ins and outs flawlessly.

USA will still be the favorite to win gold irrespective of these scrimmages. But they are definitely learning a valuable lesson. If they don’t get on the same page as soon as they can, shit’s gonna get real in a way they can’t just talent their way back from.