silver medal with an 8-2 mark.
France’s men took
bronze with a 19-11 victory over Canada,
while Australia’s women defeated Italy 16-14 for the bronze. In the women’s gold medal
game, Spain struck first, but the U.S. went up 4-3 and never again trailed. The USA women pulled away 10-5 before going up 14-8 and cruising through to the victory. “It feels great,” said
Kaela Davis, who competed in the 2011 FIBA 3x3 Youth World Championship and earned an honorary bronze medal, returned in 2012 and helped lead the USA to a gold medal showing.
and get stronger as we go into the medal round.” The U.S. men began the day with a
20-13 win over Germany, before battling Italy for an 18-16 victory and then defeating Brazil 21-14. “After the loss yesterday, we knew
we had to come back and play tough today,” said Brady. “As we go along we are improving and we have come together as a team pretty well. I think we have a chance to play for the gold medal if we keep working hard.” The USA 3x3 U18 women opened
day two with a 21-11 win against Taiwan before falling to China 13-12 in overtime with just two players due to foul trouble. “I think we can take a lot away from
today,” said Davis. “No game is wasted. We will watch film and see what we can do better on, and come back ready to play.”
Day 3- September 30 The 2012 FIBA 3x3 U18 World
Championship concluded on Sept. 30 with the USA 3x3 U18 women finishing 7-1 and collecting the gold medal with a 21-13 victory over host Spain, while the USA 3x3 men were edged by Serbia 21-20 in overtime of the gold medal game and earned the
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DeShields, who now has FIBA U17, U19 and 3x3 U18 world championship gold medals. “The feeling never gets old. You’re a world champion of multiple competitions. It never feels the same. It’s a different feeling because you work differently in each tournament, so I’m just really excited. I’m so happy that we got another gold medal.” The men’s gold medal game was a
Brett Brady and the USA’s men’s team returned to the U.S. with a silver medal after narrowly being edged by Serbia 21-20 in overtime of the gold medal game.
they didn’t look back. They came out and fought all the way through to the end. They went ahead against Spain and didn’t look back and came away with the gold.
much closer affair that see-sawed for the first half of the contest. With the U.S. up 11-10, however, Serbia strung together five unanswered points to take a 15-11 lead. The American men fought back and took a 17-16 lead late in the game. From there the score was knotted three times. The USA used a Hollis-Jefferson buzzer- beating bucket to send the game into overtime with the score tied 19-all. “It just came down to toughness,”
said Hollis-Jefferson following the gold medal game. “They were a good team, but it just seemed like we didn’t fight until we were down. Being down one with like two seconds left, I just had one mindset. I had to get the basket.” Hollis-Jefferson threw down a dunk
to open overtime and put the U.S. on top 20-19 and in need of one more point to clinch the gold medal as the first team to score two points in overtime earns the victory. However, Serbia heaved up a shot from beyond the arc that banked in, giving the Serbs the 21-20 win and gold medal.
“The women came out strong today
and ran through all their competition,” said Johnson. “It was obviously tougher competition today than yesterday, but
“Serbia is a big, big team and they
had two inches over all of our guys,” said Johnson regarding the men’s gold medal opponents. “They’re very versatile and can shoot as well. They were very strong the whole game, but we were in there scratching and clawing, and were in there with them the whole game. “When we went into overtime,
Rondaé (Hollis-Jefferson) had a massive dunk that looked like it energized the whole team ... it looked like nothing was going to stop them. The Serbia player got the ball, stepped behind the line and threw up a prayer that got answered, so we ended up with silver. But going from eighth last year to second place is a six- place jump, and it’s good for these guys. To come out of here with a 8-2 record, I told them they shouldn’t hold their heads down whatsoever.” Earlier in the day, the USA 3x3 U18
women advanced to the final after knocking off Estonia 21-10 in the quarterfinals and eventual bronze medal- ist Australia 21-13 in the semifinals. The USA 3x3 U18 men defeated
Estonia 21-18 in the quarterfinals and Canada 17-13 in the semifinals en route to the gold medal game.
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