USA – China under 189.5

Very high line mostly due to the very fast game of Americans yesterday against Puerto Rico (111-100), but probably also by result of a friendly game between these teams 2 weeks ago when Usa beat Chinese (119-73) on their home soil. Still, that result shouldn’t fool us as China played without their 2 best players and NBA stars Yao Ming and Zhizhi Wang, and this team is way different without them. Since their arrival they play much slower as they always try to make an action for them under the basket, and their fast shooting is reduced a lot. China lost (69-84) to Italy in the first round after the game was rather close for 25 minutes and then sharpshooting of Italians brought them the win. This game probably would have beaten the line (144) if Italians haven’t had such a great shooting night from 3 point line (25/13). Now the line is 55 points bigger and in spite of high tempo game by Usa i can hardly see so many points scored. Two years ago these teams played in group stages and Usa won 84-65