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LAS VEGAS -- New team. Same old result.Full of new star power -- and dominant on the inside -- the U.S. mens basketball team opened its bid for a third straight Olympic gold medal Friday night with a 111-74 exhibition romp over Argentina.A game that was over almost before it began showed the U.S. has to improve its shooting and conditioning. It also showed that there is plenty of talent among a group of players that seem to want to play well for each other and their country despite the absence of Olympic stalwarts Kobe Bryant and LeBron James.Theres a willingness from these guys to work on anything we need and to work hard, coach Mike Krzyzewski said. These are very good guys.A U.S. team that hasnt lost a game in 10 years had little trouble with Argentina, which some consider a medal contender in Rio. Paul George scored 14 first-half points, Kevin Durant added 12, and the U.S. blew open the game early before an appreciative crowd on the Las Vegas Strip.Even with Bryant retired and James taking this Olympics off, there was no real talent drop off on a team heavily favored to win gold once again. The depth of the U.S. showed as coach Mike Krzyzewski rotated players in and out, searching for the right combinations on a team with 10 new players from 2012.Nothing is for sure, Durant said. We want to get this gold and right now we have a job to do. We have to prepare the right way.Count the Argentines among those who were impressed at the first real game for the Olympic team.Obviously, they have the best talent and the best size in the world, Argentinas Luis Scola said. Thats a big difference in their favor.The game was the first of five exhibitions the U.S. will play before traveling to Rio to defend the gold medal. The U.S. team has spent the last week practicing in Las Vegas in preparation for the tour and the games.There werent any opening night jitters, though the U.S. shot only 45 percent and missed all but 14 of 41 3-pointers. With DeMarcus Cousins pulling down 15 rebounds in just 16 minutes, the U.S. dominated inside, outrebounding Argentina 53-30.The big thing is getting in shape and they are not there where they will be, Krzyzewski said. But we really have an inside presence on the boards.For Durant the game was a chance to play with a pair of his new Golden State teammates, Draymond Green and Klay Thompson. It was also a chance for Durant and Carmelo Anthony -- the only two players from the 2012 team -- to demonstrate that this will be their team in Rio.Both players cheered from the bench as the minutes were spread around, jumping up to clap for teammates. Every U.S. player got quality time, with Greens 12 minutes the least played by any American.Were going to have fun and were going to enjoy ourselves, Anthony said. If its not fun its not worth it. Were going to enjoy ourselves but at the same time were going to be focused in trying to get that gold medal.Durant finished as the games high scorer with 23 points, while George had 18 and Carmelo Anthony 17. Andres Nocioni had 15 for Argentina, while Manu Ginobili added 11 for Argentina, which lost to the U.S. in the semifinals of the 2012 Olympics.Though at times little defense was played, there was plenty of offense to keep the crowd at the new T-Mobile Arena happy. The teams combined to put up 70 3-point attempts, 41 of them from the U.S.Oddsmakers had made the U.S. a prohibitive 29.5-point favorite in what at times looked a lot like an NBA All-Star game. 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The 1.83-meter (6-foot) Leapai defeated the previously unbeaten Denis Boytsov in November to become the WBOs mandatory challenger.Englands batsmen displayed impressive defensive skill on day four in Visakhapatnam to lift their hopes of a draw. But they still have to play out an entire day on a pitch that is no longer as trustworthy as it was before. There is substantial rough outside the left-handers off stump for Ravindra Jadeja to exploit from the Press Box End and R Ashwin has benefited from variable bounce at the Pavilion End.More importantly, India were able to break through a remarkably stubborn opening stand when Haseeb Hameed was lbw to a grubber. They also dismissed Alastair Cook in the last over of the day and with a minimum of 90.4 more left in the game and 317 runs in the bank, they are confident of going 1-0 up in the series.We are happy with the way things went, Cheteshwar Pujara said at the end of day four. We got two wickets. We knew that it wont be easy to get them out but we had our plans and we knew what we wanted to do. Ultimately we achieved what we wanted.Things wouldnt come easy for us also. We know that they are capable of batting well, so we wouldt take things for granted. Tomorrow we will definitely have to come hard at them. But we are prepared for it.When it comes to Test cricket, our bowlers and as a team we are prepared to be in a situation where we have to work hard for our wickets but when we see a victory, wwe know that we can get eight more wickets.dddddddddddd I dont know in how many overs but we have got a very good chance tomorrow, we will come hard tomorrow.After stumps on the fourth day, Virat Kohli rounded up his men in a huddle and was seen speaking animatedly to them. It seemed like he was getting them ready for a fight. Not the worst thinking considering that while there was help available to the bowlers, it didnt necessarily equate to a torrent of wickets. India had to put in 59.2 overs of hard work to pick up two of them.The main reason for that was how well Cook and Hameed batted. They added 75 runs in 50.2 overs, the third-longest opening partnership in the fourth innings of a Test in this country. India have broken through one blockathon before, against South Africa in Delhi last year. Can they do a repeat?Pujara believes so. I believe this wicket is such that if you play defensive, it is slightly difficult to get a batsman out but still as we saw today, there is low bounce. One or two balls from Ashwin bounced, from the rough. Jadeja was able to get a lot of bounce. Even if you play defensive also it is not easy, I dont think it will be an easy task to bat on this wicket. ' ' '