USA vs France Predictions and betting tips Olympics Men’s Basketball 2020

The USA vs France game will be the second game in the Men’s Basketball tournament in the 2020 summer Olympics. We’ll be giving you a preview for this game that is rich in stats. Based on the stats and the latest news we will also be making predictions for the USA vs France game in the men’s basketball tournament in the Tokyo Olympics and top it off with some betting tips for the game.

US Men’s National Basketball Team Preview

Team USA is an unstoppable force in international basketball. The US Basketball team is currently ranked as the number one national team in the world and they have won a medal in every summer olympic since Basketball was introduced in the Olympics in the 1936 Olympics.

Team USA usually always gets the gold medal in the Olympics. There are only 3 instances when the US Men’s national basketball team had a worse finish. Thes 3 instances when team USA were not gold medalists were in 1972 Olympics where they were defeated by the Soviet Union in the finals and ended up as silver medalists, in 1988 when they finished as bronze medalists behind Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union respectively and in the 2004 Olympics where they finished behind Italy and Argentina respectively.

Team USA has had some mixed results in recent times though. In the last FIBA world cup in 2019, they were eliminated by France in the quarter finals after winning the last 2 world cups. 

In the last 4 exhibition games that Team USA played in July, they lost the first two against Nigeria and Australia but won the last two against Argentina and Spain, which are ranked 4th and 2nd respectively.

France Men’s National Basketball Team Preview

The French team has been slowly raising it’s game over the years to become one of the top teams in International Basketball. Between 1967 and 2002, the French team only managed to qualify for 1 out of 10 world cups, the 1986 FIBA world cup.

But they have been getting better ever since. Les Bleus  as they are affectionately known by their fans finished 3rd in the last 2 FIBA world cups and eliminated team USA in the quarter finals of the last world cup.

In their own backyard in Europe they have finished runners up , third and champions in 3 of the last 4 European Championships.

France has never won a gold at the Olympics.They have won 2 medals, both silvers, in the 1936 Olympics and the 2000 Olympics.

France has also made it to the quarter finals in the last 2 Olympics 2012 and 2016 and are currently ranked 7th in the world and 4th in Europe.

France hasn’t been in great form. They lost their last three 3 exhibition games against Japan and twice against Spain. France also lost the game prior to these exhibition games against Great Britain.

2021 Olympics Basketball: USA vs France: Team News

For the upcoming tournament in the Olympics in Japan, Team USA will include the likes of Kevin Durant, Damian Lillard, Bradley Beal and Jayson Tatum. Coach Gregg Popovich who has been the head coach of the San Antonio Spurs will be leading Team USA for the 2020 Olympics.

Coach Popovich and Team USA will be hoping to win the Gold at the Olympics for the 4th time in a row.

Here are the players who will part of Team USA for the upcoming Sunday’s game against France:

• Bam Adebayo (Miami Heat)
• Devin Booker (Phoenix Suns)
• Kevin Durant (Brooklyn Nets)
• Jerami Grant (Detroit Pistons)
• Draymond Green (Golden State Warriors)
• Jrue Holiday (Milwaukee Bucks)
• Keldon Johnson (San Antonio Spurs)
• Zach LaVine (Chicago Bulls)
• Damian Lillard (Portland Trail Blazers)
• JaVale McGee (Denver Nuggets)
• Khris Middleton (Milwaukee Bucks)
• Jayson Tatum (Boston Celtics)

France on the other hand will have the likes of Rudy Gobert (Utah Jazz), Nicolas Batum of the Clippers,Evan Fournier who plays with the Celtics,Timothe Luwawu-Cabarrot (Nets), Frank Ntilikina (Nicks) and others in its roster.

2021 Olympics Basketball: USA vs France: Head-to-head Record

Team USA and France have faced each other 6 times in the Olympics. Team USA dominated them in all of these games and won all of them. The last time these two faced off was in the 2016 Olympics. Team USA won by fine margins in this last game by just 3 points when the game ended 100-97.

2021 Olympics Basketball: USA vs France Odds

Bookmakers favor Team USA to dominate France and win their opening game in the Men’s Basketball tournament at the Olympics. You’ll find yourself agreeing with when you check out the the odds for USA vs France below:

• USA -834
• France +420

2021 Olympics Basketball: USA vs France Predictions

Based on the historical stats,current stats and the odds we can easily predict that Team USA will win against France. 

Here are some of our other predictions for the USA vs France game:

• France will score under 80 points. They haven’t managed to score 80 or more points in any of their games they played this year. France scored an average of 75.4 points in their last 5 games.

• Team USA will score between 90 and 100 points. Team USA scored an average of 90.25 points in their last 4 games
• We expect under 170 points to be scored for this based on the average scoring records of these teams. 

Basketball Tournament Betting Tips

If you have checked out our article on Basketball betting tips, you would know that this isn’t the best game to place a simple moneyline bet if you are looking to make some serious cash. If you haven’t we will give you a Tl:Dr version of it, games where the odds are less than +100 are just not worth it when it comes to moneyline bets.

This means that if you want to make things a little bit more interesting and get a bang for your buck, you need to shake things up with parlay bets. 

For the USA vs France game in the Olympics we will give you our personal betting strategy below. We are going with a parlay based on 4 events and setting ourselves a budget of $100.

• USA wins, Moneyline bet. Odds -834
• USA wins, -11.5 Spread. Odds -121
• Under 177.5 points total in the game. Odds -121
• France to score under 82.5 points.

If we combine these bets we get the following odds of +275. If you were to copy our strategies and manage to win, you stand a chance of making $375 from $100 or 3.75x your bet.

You can choose to make your own parlays and move things around based on your risk appetite. We are going with a strategy that is not too risky in our opinion.

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