Dre Diary

Sixers' Andre Iguodala is keeping an exclusive diary for the Daily News at the World Championships. Today's entry comes after Team USA's 85-51 win over Iran in Group B play. The Americans improved to 4-0. Iguodala had a three-pointer - making his only shot of the game - three rebounds and a steal in 12 minutes.

We're doing pretty well, I think. The main thing with us is that we just have to stay focused, and if we do that we should be able to accomplish our goals. We had some things we wanted to work on (yesterday), and we did. We played well in the second half. I thought in the first half we could have been better. We didn't do a very good job of communicating. We have a lot of very quiet guys on the team.

We've been doing a very good job of taking all of our games seriously, including our exhibition games in Spain and Greece. We knew we had to take care of business before getting to the medal rounds. Some of the top-five teams in the world struggled in pool play so it turned out to be real important for us to win all of our games and get there with no losses.

(Yesterday) was really the first time I've thought about being away from home as long as I have. The reason is because they have been treating us so well ever since we left. We have a chef from Detroit who makes us some great stuff, we have a Nike suite that we all hang out in after games. All the guys on the team have gotten along really well so it doesn't seem so much like we're so far away from home, it's more like a long road trip in the NBA. There really can be no complaints. In Greece, the food was just OK, but in Spain we found restaurants that we liked and all is cool here.

Training camp is right around the corner, and it's going to be a busy few weeks for me before then. Hopefully, we'll get where we want to here and win the gold medal. Then, when we land in New York, I'm gonna try to go to a Jay-Z concert at Yankee Stadium. Then I have to go to Chicago and Los Angeles to get my stuff together and get it shipped to Philadelphia. I also have an event in New York and an event in Philly before training camp starts.

But, like I said, I'm really looking forward to training camp and being back in Philadelphia and get the new season started.