Men's Basketball World Cup/Team USA's First Loss To Lithuania Have Good Advice To Reeves Trash Talk

Lithuania with 110: Vaidas Kariniauskas, who scored the most points in the team after defeating the United States in 2004, also revealed that there was "trash talking" with Austin Reaves during the game. Reeves' older brother, Spencer Reaves, gave the advice.

Karinias, who scored 15 points, scored many singles against Reeves, and made Reeves foul in the fourth quarter of the "3-point play" performance, but he stressed that there was nothing personal, all part of the game, and he had played with Reeves's brother, "so I talked to him before the game, he said," give him (Reeves) some trash talk, "so I did it."

Lithuania's previous world championship defeat of the United States has been back to the 1998 World championships, the most recent win is also back to the 2004 Athens Olympics, 29-year-old Kariniaskas said that this year's World Cup victory is significant, "for our country, it is important to win against the United States, it happened about 19 years ago." I've seen that game maybe 20 or 25 times and now we've done it, it's crazy, but we've got to calm down."

Lithuania's victory against the United States 19 years ago was the Athens Olympic group stage, which was led by the legendary Sarunas Jasikevicius, but although they won the group, Lithuania first lost to Italy in the round 4, and then lost to the United States in the bronze medal game.

This year's World Cup again with a full record into the eight single-elimination round, Lithuania and Serbia will compete for the top 4 tickets; Despite the losing streak, the United States finished second in the group and will compete with Italy for another place in the semifinals.