World squad up its lead to 21-14 as the first quar- ter came to a close. After falling behind
28-16 and 32-21, Mohammad scored an old fashioned three-point play and following a fast-break bucket from Anderson at 5:09, the USA trailed by six-points, 32-26. After a timeout, the
Left: Kyle Anderson contributed a double-double of 12 points, 10 rebounds and added four assists. Above: Gary Harris recorded eight points, four rebounds and three assists in the 2012 Nike Hoop Summit.
13 points to go with 14 rebounds, which tied the previous World Team high. The USA was plagued by ice-cold
35.9 percent shooting from the field and was out done on the glass by a lopsided
World 84, USA 75 April 7, 2012
WORLD MIN FG FT R A PF PTS Wiggins 33 7- 18 4- 6 712 20 Bennett Zhelin
22 2- 8 2- 4 11 22 7 22 8-11 3- 6 804 19
Michalak 14 1- 3 2- 2 120 5 Westermann 28 1- 6 1- 2 122 4 Cvetkovic 21 2- 4 1- 3 135 5 Saric Delia
25 5-10 2- 2 14 51 13 12 2- 5 0- 2 702 4
Cizauskas 13 0- 3 2- 2 512 2 Jogela Siame Totals
USA
Anderson 33 5-13 1- 4 10 43 12 Muhammad 39 12-27 10-11 922 35 Tarczewski 8 0- 1 0- 0 001 0 Goodwin 20 3- 9 1- 2 231 7 Robinson 18 1- 2 0- 0 101 3 Parker Harris Noel
8 0- 3 0- 0 003 0 25 3-10 2- 2 433 8 24 2- 2 1- 4 404 5
Sulaimon 19 1-10 0- 0 315 3 McGary Totals
World United States
21 31 12 20 14 20 21 20
5 1- 1 0- 0 103 2 200 28-78 15-23 34 13 26 75
-- 84 -- 75
3PT FGs-World (6-19): Wiggins 2-6, Bennett 1-4, Saric 1-3, Michalak 1-2, Westermann 1-2, Jogela 0-2; USA (4-18): Sulaimon 1-5, Muhammad 1-4, Anderson 1-3, Robinson 1-1, Harris 0-4, Goodwin 0-1; TO-World 23, USA 12; BLKS-World 4, USA 5; STLS-World 7, USA 11.
102
7 2- 5 1- 2 102 5 3 0- 1 0- 0 101 0 200 30-74 18-31 57 16 23 84
MIN FG FT R A PF PTS
57-34 margin. In fact, the World Team’s 57 rebounds established a new game high for the international squad. “Wow, special win for us, for the
World Team,” said Roy Rana, head coach of the World Team who is now 1-1 in Nike Hoop Summit play. “I know it hasn’t happened too often, so anytime you get a win over the USA it’s a good feeling. I thought we got off to a tremen- dous start and then hung on for our lives.” The USA was sluggish in the game’s
opening minutes and turned the ball over twice and missed its first three shots in its first five offensive possessions. Meanwhile, the World Team got
going early and behind four points from Wiggins and four more from Zhelin grabbed a 10-0 lead with 7:26 remaining in the first quarter. The U.S. took a timeout to regroup,
and Muhammad took over for the USA and put seven consecutive points on the board for the Americans, making the score to 12-7 with a pull-up at 6:15. Archie Goodwin (Sylvan Hills H.S./Little Rock, Ark.) connected on a runner to make the score 12-9, but Saric sank a 3-pointer to push the World lead to 15-9. Muhammad continued his offensive
assault with a turnaround jumper and after Gary Harris (Hamilton Southeastern H.S./Bowie, Md.) hit a short jumper the U.S. found itself trailing by two, 15-13. Michal Michalak answered for the
World Team by draining a 3-pointer to start his team on a 6-1 run that saw the
World Team recaptured the game’s momentum and outscored the USA 20-8 over the quarter’s final 4:50 to take its largest lead of the game into the locker room at halftime, 52-34. A 6-0 run to open the
third quarter gave the U.S. a spark and closed the gap to
52-40 with 8:02 to play in the third. The World team responded back and
took control 64-47, but the U.S. closed the third period on a 6-0 scoring run to cut the World Team’s advantage to nine points, 64-55, heading into the final period. The USA continued to battle in the
fourth quarter and, after outscoring the World squad 20-10, took its first and only lead of the game, 75-74, on an Anderson driving layup with 3:20 on the clock. The USA’s lead was short-lived
though, as the internationals scored four straight points to go back on top 78-75 with 45 seconds to go. The Americans’ fate was sealed
when, with the shot-clock nearly expired, Wiggins heaved a 3-pointer that found the bottom of the net and put the game out of reach, 81-75, with just 22 seconds left. Harris aided the U.S. with eight
points, four rebounds and three assists, while Goodwin finished with seven points. The Nike Hoop Summit, which
annually sees America's top senior high school players take on a World Select Team consisting of many of the world's best players 19-years-old or younger, has given an extraordinary number of talent- ed players the chance to showcase their abilities. More than 140 Hoop Summit alumni have been drafted into the NBA. With the win, the World Team
improved to 11-4 in the 15-game history of the event and has now won two of the last four Summits.
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