Team USA improves to 3-0 with impressive win over Serbia - ESPN

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Stephen Curry had a sizzling 18 points in his first 11 minutes, one of those hot streaks that raises goosebumps throughout arenas as those high arcing 3-pointers splash repeatedly through the net.

Then the buzzer sounded and there was a sub coming to get him, something coach Steve Kerr probably never imagined himself doing in the middle of the second quarter.

This is the way Team USA is supposed to go. Merciless firepower and relentless talent deployment.

Now two weeks into the journey toward the Paris Olympics the Americans aren't perfect but this potentially historic group is starting to show its teeth. They improved to 3-0 in their warmup tour with an impressive 105-79 victory over medal contender Serbia Wednesday at Etihad Arena.

Even by Team USA standards this group is outrageously deep. The Americans have seven MVP Awards represented in their starting lineup — not including Kevin Durant, who remains out with a calf injury — but they might be scarier when Kerr goes to his bench.

During this tour Kerr has been using hockey-style substitutions, subbing in five players at a time. When the public announcer tells the crowd the line changes and says the names "Anthony Edwards, Anthony Davis, Bam Adebayo, Tyrese Haliburton and Devin Booker" all at once as the «second» unit it's a little sobering.

That group, though it's sometimes included Jayson Tatum and Wednesday saw Derrick White get his first minutes with the team, has just crushed the competition in the exhibitions thus far. And it shows just how hard it could be to beat the Americans in Paris.

After Curry exited on that hot streak in the second quarter, for example, the Team USA finished the half on a 19-5 run with the «backups.» The