SHANGHAI - The United States may have been criticized for sending a second, or even third-string team to the World Cup in China, but the Americans were still more than capable of humiliating Japan in a 98-45 beat down Thursday.If it was to have any hope of challenging the tournament's heavy favorites in the teams' final first-round game in Shanghai, Japan needed huge performances from its "Big Three" -- Rui Hachimura, Yuta Watanabe and Nick Fazekas.But the star trio went missing, tallying just 17 points between them.Recent Washington Wizards draftee Hachimura failed to impose himself on the…READ FULL ARTICLE
