1 Stud, 4 Duds from Team Canada's heartbreaking Olympic loss to France

Dud: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander

The best player on Team Canada led them in scoring with 27 points, so it may seem strange to pin the loss on him, but Shai Gilgeous-Alexander was well below his usual level of play in this contest, and it cost them the game.

The Oklahoma City Thunder star shot just 9-for-19 from the field, including 1-for-4 from deep. While he drew a lot of fouls, he had three big misses from the stripe. Despite more lax rules on assists in FIBA he managed just four, demonstrating both his inability to force France into transition and the inaccuracy or trepidation of the shooters on the opposite end of his passes.

Gilgeous-Alexander was frequently out of position on defense or driving into nowhere on offense; he looked off somehow, whether that was fatique or lack of focus or something else entirely. There were entire sequences where it appeared that he forgot what the gameplan was. He played 37 of 40 minutes and was clearly fatigued at times in the second half.

Canada needed something special from their superstar, and instead they got ho-hum; given the setting, that was a dud of a performance.

Dud: Shooting

Instead of one single player, we will highlight a weakness across the board: Team Canada couldn't hit shots on Tuesday. That's what the entire game boils down to, in fact: Canada shot just 37.9 percent from the field and 23.8 percent from the 3-point line. Take out RJ Barrett's 2-for-5 line and they hit only 3 of 16 attempts.

The Canadiens were built from the outside-in; they are a team of guards and stretch bigs that has to outscore and outshoot their opponents to win. In this game they went suddenly cold, and even against a France team with questionable perimeter defenders they were unable to create open looks or knock them down when they did.