USA White Rides Second-Half Surge To 128-106 Win In 2013 USA Basketball Showcase
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Top Right: Kyrie Irving (23) drives to the basket for two of his game high 23 points. Bottom Right: Kemba Walker (26) looks to bank in a basket over Kyrie Irving (23) during the 2013 USA Basketball Showcase.
White team outscored the USA Blue squad 75-55 in the second half to earn a 128-106 win on July 25 in the 2013 USA Basketball Showcase at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nev. Anthony Davis, a 2012 U.S. Olympic gold medal- ist, paced the USA Blue Team with 22 points on 10-of-13 shooting and seven rebounds. The 2013 USA Basketball
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Showcase, played in front of a crowd of 9,513 fans and featuring 12-minute quar- ters and international rules, culminated three days of national team training camp for 28 players hoping to earn a future roster spot on a USA Basketball Men’s National Team. “The guys were terrific all week. I
think we made a good first good step in this four-year period,” said USA Basketball Men’s National Team head coach Mike Krzyzewski (Duke University). “I think as good as Anthony (Davis) was last year, he’s stepped it up another couple levels and that was exciting to see. He got better throughout the week and put on a heck of a perfor- mance tonight. “Kyrie (Irving) is one of the special
players in the NBA. Both of these two guys (Irving and Davis) are exceptional talents and as talented as both of these guys are, they are so easy to coach and they’re really good guys. They had great games, it was fun to watch and they’ll be a big help to us,” added Krzyzewski. USA Basketball chairman and USA
Men’s National Team managing director Jerry Colangelo, echoed Krzyzewski’s comments about the mini-camp. “We had a great camp, it was great
to be back in town and we got a lot accomplished,” said Colangelo. “We got
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hanks in part to a game-high 23 points and seven assists from Kyrie Irving, the USA
a chance to see a terrific bunch of young players vying to get a spot going forward with one of our rosters, so it was a great week.” In addition to Irving,
the victorious White squad’s effort was aided by Jrue Holiday’s 12 points, seven rebounds and five assists; Mike Conley added 11 points; Andre Drummond recorded 11 points and six rebounds; Kenneth Faried added 11 points and seven boards; DeAndre Jordan finished with 10 points and nine rebounds; and Paul George contributed 10 points and six boards. Additionally, Ty Lawson recorded seven points and a game-best nine assists. “It was a great
experience. I had fun. It was a fun three days. Competing at the highest level is what I love to do,” said Irving, the 2012 NBA Rookie of the Year. “We just had to pick
up our intensity on both ends of the floor. I thought our team had too many turnovers in the first quarter; we had about 10. Going into the second quarter everybody kind of got settled in, got used to the basketball. Me personally I was just trying to have faith in
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