mark with 626 and 3-pointers attempted with 101. All of the previous competition highs were set in the inaugural FIBA U17 World Championship in 2010.
The USA is now 16-0 in FIBA U17
World Championship play after having also wrapped up a gold medal and undefeated 8-0 record in 2010.
USA 131, South Korea 89 The USA was simply too fast for
South Korea. Busting the Korean’s full- court pressure for 72 points in the paint and 40 off of the fast break, the U.S. steamed to a 131-89 win in its first game of the 2012 FIBA U17 World Championship. Greenwell led the USA with 23
points to go with seven rebounds and seven assists; and two players recorded double-doubles –Turner with 20 points and 10 rebounds and Reimer with 15 points and 10 board. “I remember thinking at halftime it
USA 131, South Korea 89 August 17, 2012
USA Allen
MIN FG FT R A PF PTS 21 1- 2 0- 0 572 2
Greenwell 29 9-16 4- 5 771 23 DeShields 20 5- 6 0- 0 361 12 Reimer 21 7-11 1- 3 10 11 15 Russell 18 8- 8 1- 1 523 17 Washington 1 0- 0 0- 0 000 0 Harper Davis Turner
18 4- 5 1- 4 534 9 16 2- 5 8-10 330 12 16 9-12 2- 3 10 03 20
McCall 13 3- 7 1- 1 402 7 Chidom 15 5- 6 1- 2 513 11 James
12 1- 5 1- 4 510 3
Totals 200 54-83 20-33 64 31 20 131 KOR
R. Lee Shin
M. Lee 25 3-13 3- 4 224 10 J. Park I Yang An
S. Lee
17 4-11 2- 2 210 10 17 1- 7 2- 2 323 4 25 4- 7 1- 2 225 11 19 1- 2 2- 4 242 4
S. Kim 10 2- 5 1- 2 121 6 H. Kim 20 6-12 0- 0 504 18 E. Yang H. Lee
7 1- 3 1- 2 010 3 8 0- 1 0- 0 000 0
J.S. Park 15 1- 3 5- 8 101 7 Totals 200 29-78 17-26 25 18 27 89
USA South Korea
37 33 27 34 -- 131 30 19 18 22 -- 89
3-PT FGs-USA (3-8): DeShields 2-3, Greenwell 1-4, Allen 0-1; South Korea (14-34): H. Kim 6-11, Shin 2-8, R. Lee 2-4, An 2-2, M. Lee 1-7, S. Kim 1-1, S. Lee 0-1; TO-USA 24, South Korea 21; BLKS- USA 4, South Korea 2; STLS-USA 14, South Korea 10.
76
MIN FG FT R A PF PTS 15 2- 4 0- 0 103 6 22 4-10 0- 0 144 10
Diamond DeShields returned home with the FIBA U17 World Championship MVP trophy after leading the U.S. to gold and recording 14.8 points, 5.3 rebounds, 3.3 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.1 blocked shots per game.
was so unusual to have 70 points and only be up by 20,” said Schneider. “I thought Korea really shot the ball well, especially early. They cooled off a little bit in the second half, and I thought our team did a really good job of adjusting after halftime, getting over screens and getting a hand up. “It was an unselfishly played game
on our part, and everybody was looking for each other. I think their full-court press hurt Korea, but they stayed with it pretty much the entire game, and we were just getting layups on the back end of it. Diamond DeShields, Linnae Harper and Lindsay Allen, they all did such a great job of seeing down the floor and finding their teammates behind the press. It was a nice way to open the tournament for us.”
While the USA missed the points
record by just three, four USA U17 women’s individual highs were recorded along with the a team-record 65.1 percent (54-83 FGs) shooting from the field. Russell was a perfect 8-of-8 from the field to finish with 17 points and set a record for field goal percentage; Davis shot 8-of-10 from the free throw line to
establish highs for free throws made and attempted on her way to 12 points; and Harper grabbed a USA U17 record five steals. Two other players reached
double digits, including DeShields with 12 points and six assists and Chidom with 11 points. Helped by seven more assists from Allen, the USA dished out 31 assists on its 54 scores. From the start both teams
used full-court pressure on defense, but it was the USA that handled the pressure by racing away for transition scores. While South Korea sank its first 3-pointer at 9:13, the inside duo of Russell and Reimer put the first nine points on the board for the USA, and the score was 9-3 at 8:18.
While the USA continued to
beat its opponent down the court on offense, South Korea sank six 3-pointers in the period to stay close, trailing by seven, 37-30, at the first break. South Korea cooled to make
just two threes in the second peri-
od, but the USA did not slow down. Seven U.S. scorers helped the Americans compile an impressive 33 points in the period to take a 70-49 halftime lead. The pattern remained the same after
the halftime break – with the USA push- ing the ball out in transition for layups, while South Korea shot from the outside. South Korea again made just two more 3-pointers in the third quarter to help compile 18 points, while the USA strung together 27 points in the stanza to head into the final 10 minutes with a 97-67 advantage. South Korea certainly didn’t
struggle to score, finishing with 14 made 3-pointers, but it could not slow down the red, white and blue, which used its depth and athleticism to put up 34 points in the fourth en route to the lopsided win.
The USA also used its size
advantage to tally a 64-25 margin on the boards.
Eleven players scored for the USA,
with the exception being Washington, who went to the bench in the first period with a strained right groin.
USA Basketball News
Jenny Maag/USA Basketball
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