{"id":485909,"date":"2024-08-02T12:15:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T16:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485909"},"modified":"2024-08-02T12:15:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T16:15:26","slug":"kerr-claims-team-usa-focused-on-the-top-seed","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/kerr-claims-team-usa-focused-on-the-top-seed\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerr claims Team USA focused on the top-seed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When manager Steve Kerr met with his players today, he shared the Olympic basketball competition standings and revealed the importance of not just defeating Puerto Rico in their final pool match tomorrow but also doing everything possible to be with the largest margin possible.<\/p>\n<p>Point differential is a tiebreaker for seeding in the \u00bc finals that starts next week. Team USA, at plus-43, begins the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> pool play match with the best number in the field. The Americans have a 10-point edge over Germany, which faces France today, and want his team to be the top seed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want to be the top seed,&#8221; Team USA head coach shared. &#8220;It gives you the best matchup in the \u00bc finals. So, if we drop down to 2 or 3 &#8211; which in my opinion is almost impossible, but we must take care of our business &#8211; we possibly have a much tougher matchup.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Steve Kerr said Jrue Holiday &quot;rolled his ankle the other night.&quot; He&#39;s considered questionable to play against Puerto Rico on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Grant Afseth (@GrantAfseth) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GrantAfseth\/status\/1819311258543219061?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When manager Steve Kerr met with his players today, he shared the Olympic basketball competition standings and revealed the importance of not just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":485910,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18356,17507,17662],"news_category":[16706],"gn_keywords":[18357,20329,21110],"acf":{"announce":"Steve shared that the basketball team will try to secure the 1st seed.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485911,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485909\/revisions\/485911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485909"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485909"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}