All Credits goes to JD2K USA-Lithuania 120-84 Team USA handled Lithuania with relative ease in a 120-84 victory that wrapped up the Macau portion of its pre-Olympic tour. "That's what I do," said Bryant, who gave himself a new nickname: "The Doberman." There was pretty much nothing but a long, long list of positives for Team USA in this 36-point stomping, so let's just go ahead and rattle off a few: • Dwyane Wade again looked like the Wade of two years ago, punctuating a 7-for-9, 19-point performance with yet another powerful windmill dunk late in the fourth quarter that had his teammates jumping off the bench and roaring in admiration. "He's back. That's all I can tell you, he's back," Carmelo Anthony said. • Howard got going on offense early after getting a pep talk from assistant coach Nate McMillan in the morning shootaround. He scored 10 of his 17 points in the best first quarter the Americans have played among their three warm-up games thus far. • Michael Redd busted Lithuania's zone by knocking down four 3-pointers and scoring 16 points in just 14 minutes, his shot clicking so well that LeBron James took to yelling "bang bang" every time the left-hander fired away. • Carlos Boozer even got in on the fun with a steal -- one of 16 the Americans had -- and breakaway dunk late in the game. "I used to do that a lot in high school and college, not so much in the pros," Boozer said. As a group, the Americans also handled Lithuania's one surge with aplomb. After Lithuania knocked down three 3-pointers to open the second half and cut what had been a 19-point deficit down to single digits, 61-52, Team USA used a 14-3 run early in the third quarter to put the game out of reach. "We weren't expecting it, but they made a run and we kept our composure and buckled down defensively and opened the game up," Anthony said.
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