SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico -- Tracy McGrady believes the current edition of the U.S. national team is capable of scoring 150 points.

"If we really got it going for four quarters together the way we did in that second and third quarter, I think we can get up to 150 points," McGrady said Thursday night after the Americans beat the Dominican Republic 111-73.

McGrady scored 17 points, Vince Carter had 15, Jermaine O'Neal 14 and Kenyon Martin 13 for the Americans, who surpassed 110 points for the first time since the 2001 Goodwill Games.

The highest point total by a U.S. team of professionals came in the 1994 World Championships in a 137-91 victory over Russia. The largest margin of victory -- 79 points -- came in the very first game played by the original Dream Team in the 1992 Tournament of the Americas -- a 136-57 victory over Cuba.

The 1996 Olympic team scored 133 points against China, and the 2001 Goodwill Games team had 132 against Mexico.

Last summer's U.S. team in the World Championships scored 110 twice, but was held to 84 points or less in its final four games -- three of which were losses.

This year's team is averaging 110.5 in two games, and larger point totals could be in store if the Americans can shake their habit of starting slowly.

"We know we can score the ball, but we need to get stops to get running in transition, and then no one can beat us," McGrady said.

The 1992 Dream Team scored fewer than 110 points only twice in 14 games, but subsequent editions of the national team have not been as dominant as that one. The 1996 and 2000 Olympic teams surpassed 110 points only once apiece -- both times against China.

Nick Collison, the team' 12th man, put the United States over the 110-point mark on a driving scoop shot with 19 seconds left.

"Well, we had 39 assists and 46 field goals, so that's exactly the way we'd like to play -- share the ball and play like a team," coach Larry Brown said. "That's what we've done the last two games, and that's what we'd like to continue to do."

As they did in their opener against Brazil, the Americans got off to a shaky start -- no one more so than McGrady.

McGrady went to the free throw line twice in the first five minutes and missed all four shots. Fortunately for the U.S. team, two of the misses turned into offensive rebounds and putbacks for O'Neal.

O'Neal also had a putback basket off a near airball by McGrady, and Ray Allen closed the quarter with a 3-pointer to give the Americans a 29-25 lead.

Allen then had a 3-pointer and a breakaway layup to give the Americans a 38-35 lead, completing the 18-0 run. Carter had two spectacular dunks over the first five minutes of the second quarter, and his 3 from the corner gave the Americans a 47-30 lead with 4:49 left before halftime.

After a timeout by the Dominicans, the American team came out in a 1-2-2 zone defense for the next two possessions -- an extreme rarity for a team coached by self-described zone-hater Brown.

A 4-on-1 break that ended with an off-the-backboard alley-oop pass from Jason Kidd for a dunk by Carter gave the U.S. team its first 20-point lead, 52-32, and the Americans were ahead by 24 at halftime.

McGrady rediscovered his shooting touch in the third quarter, making three 3-pointers as the Americans made five 3s in the quarter and went ahead by as many as 35.

Martin had nine and Jefferson six of the Americans' 23 points in the fourth quarter.

In earlier games, Argentina defeated Uruguay 91-60, Brazil beat the U.S. Virgin Islands 100-74 and Canada downed Puerto Rico 89-79.

The U.S. team plays Venezuela at 10 p.m. ET Friday.