Amin Elhassan

They beat Curaçao, or as Wayne Gretzky likes to say, Curaçao.

7-1.

Which absolutely gave me PTSD from 2014.

The sad part is you could argue that Curaçao did better than Brazil did because at least they tied it up early.

Brazil was down like 5-0 before they scored one.

God.

I learned pretty quickly on Saturday, having World Cup games during the NBA Finals is an exhausting proposition.

I was spent before Game 5 started because I was sitting there watching Brazil play against Morocco, a few feet away from Mike Brown's pregame presser, and I yelped audibly because Vinny Jr.

scores on a freaking Jericho missile to earn the draw against Morocco.

I was like...

And everyone turned around and looked, everything okay?

I'm like, oh yeah, I just held up my phone.

Well, Dan, there's a lot of doubters out there.

There's a lot of haters.

There's a lot of people thinking that this is the worst Brazil side in quite some time.

I'm not one of them.

Morocco is a really good team.

And they started out very aggressively.

And then the rest of the game, Brazil controlled.

I was surprised that Hendrick didn't play.