ZARAGOZA, Spain– The biggest enemy of this Team USA U 17 men’s basketball team is boredom.

The young Americans are threatening to make a mockery of this FIBA Wold Championship. They look like a junior version of the 1992 Olympic Dream Team with the way they are manhandling opposing teams, winning four games by .

The United States (5-0), which plays Lithuania today in the semi-finals, beat up on Korea, 133-81, yesterday, putting six more players in double figures and turning the game into a layup drill midway through the second quarter.

It was a frightening display, particularly for American big men Wendell Carter Jr., Carte’Are Gordon, Austin Wiley and forward Kevin Knox, who were just too powerful for Korea, scoring on dunks and layups whenever they wanted.

The 6-8, 250-pound Gordon from Webster Groves, Mo. High, scored 16 points and grabbed 7 rebounds on 7 of 8 shooting. Carter, a 6-10, 255-pound beast from Pace Academy in Atlanta who is the most efficient player on the team, had 12 points and 6 rebounds in 13 minutes on 6 of 7 shooting. The 6-8, 233-pound Wiley from Spain Park High in Hoover, Ala. had 12 points, 4 rebounds in 12 minutes on 6 of 8 shooting. The exciting 6-8, 195-pound Knox had 17 points and 6 rebounds on 6 of 10 shooting in 18 minutes.

The Americans shot 62.8 percent and out rebounded Korea, 62-22.

This is a much more efficient team than the young 2014 U 17 USA gold medal team in Dubai, which produced only one NBA first round draft pick– 6-10 Henry Ellenson of Marquette. The dominant players on that team were center Diamond Stone, who played for Maryland and went 40th in this June’s draft; and guard Malik Newman, the MVP of that tournament who had a disappointing freshman year at Mississippi State and opted to transfer after it became obvious he wouldn’t be drafted. The one saving grace on that team were young studs– Harry Giles and Josh Jackson– who were entering their junior year in high school and eventually should be high lottery picks once they finished freshman year at Duke and Kansas.

This team has 12 high major recruits who are all capable of scoring double figures.

“We had 39 guys try out and we cut it to 18, and all 39 guys can play at this level,” US Youth Development coach Don Showalter said. “When you have a great country like ours where you can take anybody from anywhere and you can go up against anybody, and you play really hard and play really well together, having all guys playing gives everybody a break and it allows us to keep putting it on the opponent.

I was hoping for a more competitive tournament, but Canada, France and Bosnia are all gone. Lithuania has the ability to make double figure three point goals and Turkey has enough size that the U.S. might not be able to push them around in the paint like they have with teams like Asian representatives Chinese Taipei and Korea. But no one is stopping them.

But no won in the history of this competition has ever had this much talent. All 12 members of the U.S. are capable of scoring double figures– quickly.

Yesterday, guard Collin Sexton came off the bench and scored 24 points in just 19 minutes. The 6-2 guard from Pebblebrook High in Mableton, Ga., whose nickname is “Young Bull.” was the leading scorer in the Nike EBYL spring league, averaging 30.1 points a game for the Southern Stampede. Sexton gets to the lane whenever he wants and makes an impact from the line.

Sexton is just starting to emerge on the national scene. He was unranked going into the spring but has played his way into the McDonald’s picture and has racked up offers from basketball heavyweights like Kansas, Alabama, Florida, Texas A & M, Arizona and Arkansas. Sexton is a practice freak, working out three times a day, including an extensive weight session and a night session in which he can’t leave until he takes 300 jump shots.

Sexton is coming off a junior season in which he averaged 29 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists for a state runner up.

“My five goals this year were to get an invite to USA Basketball, go to the Nike Skills Academy, make the Peach Jam and play in both the McDonald’s All American game and the Jordan Classic.” Sexton said.