9:14 before the White squad, which was led by USA assistant coach and New Orleans Pelicans head coach Monty Williams, responded. With the White team
whittling down the lead over the next four minutes, Lawson found Denver Nuggets teammate Faried for a dunk at 5:04 that
brought the score to 18-17 in Blue’s favor. Blue again widened the lead after five- straight points from Klay Thompson, and after trading baskets to end the first stanza, the USA Blue team led 30-25. The White team put
together a 21-5 offensive run in the second quarter that included six scorers overall and eight points from Irving to not only gave White its first lead, but a 48-40 advantage at 4:48. With 2008 and 2012 U.S.
2012 USA Olympic gold medalist Anthony Davis tallied 22 points on 10-of-13 shooting, and added seven rebounds for the USA Blue Team in the 2013 USA Basketball Showcase.
myself and my teammates, and that’s what it’s about. Like I said, everybody got settled in. Nerves were a factor in the beginning. The Blue team got up 8-0 and we had a few too many turnovers, but we did a great job and picked it up on the defensive end first and the offense took care of itself. “I think the camp went really well,”
stated Davis, the No. 1 draft choice of the 2012 NBA Draft. “A lot of guys stood up and competed. Usually when you go to camps, not just USAB (camps), but guys really don’t compete and take it serious. And for guys to show up and actually compete the way we did to make each other better, to play together … Guys played hard, shared the ball.”
The USA Blue team received 18
points from Harrison Barnes, while Greg Monroe accounted for 10 points and six boards, and John Wall scored 10 points. The USA Blue team, coached by
USA National Team assistant coach and Chicago Bulls head coach Tom Thibodeau, jumped out to an 8-0 lead at
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Olympic gold medalists and NBA super-stars Carmelo Anthony and Chris Paul watch- ing courtside, the Blue coun- tered with a 7-0 run to cut the White’s lead to just two points,
53-51 at the midway point. Ten of the game’s 11 lead changes
occurred in the third period as neither team created much breathing room.
While the White team saw seven
players combine to score 18 points over the first 8:33, Davis alone tallied eight points and Monroe scored seven to help USA Blue keep pace, and the score was tied at 71-all at 4:27.
Four 3-pointers, including two
apiece from Ryan Anderson and Conley, helped USA White outscore USA Blue 18-8 over the last 4:18 of third, and the White squad built a 10-point, 89-79 lead headed into the final stanza.
Twenty-five bench points for USA
White in the fourth quarter were too much for USA Blue to overcome, despite getting 10 points from Wall, and the White team reached its largest lead of the game – 22 points – when Conley sank a 3-pointer at 12.6 seconds left to bring the game to its 128-106 final.
“I’ve only had a chance rocking U-S-A on my chest one other time and
that was when I was in high school, so just being able to come out here and not only just play against some of the best competition, but to play for the country is great,” said Barnes. “We are going to start over and
build a new (national team) pool,” remarked Colangelo on plans for the 2014-16 USA National Team. “There will be carry-overs. There will be new names added, but that won’t be done until after the first of the year, sometime in January is what we talked about. Bear in mind that there will be 25-28 names, something like that; and we’ve always said it’s fluid, that during the course of our quad they’ll be additions and dele- tions because circumstances happen; someone might get hurt; you never know what could take place.”
2013 USA BASKETBALL SHOWCASE
USA White 128, USA Blue 106 July 25, 2013
BLUE
Waiters Lillard
Barnes MIN FG FT R A PF PTS
Hayward 23 2- 5 2- 2 1 31 7 Monroe 18 4- 7 2- 3 6 23 10 Davis
27 10-13 2- 3 7 11 22 23 2-10 0- 0 1 34 5 24 4-14 0- 0 1 34 9
Thompson 20 3- 8 1- 2 4 03 8 Walker Wall
23 1- 5 0- 0 2 50 2 21 3- 8 3- 4 3 20 10 17 6-11 4- 4 3 00 18
Cousins 16 2- 7 2- 4 7 01 6 DeRozan 17 1- 7 2- 4 1 01 4 Favors Totals
25 3-10 3- 4 6 15 10 16 5-10 1- 2 7 00 11 23 3- 7 4- 8 9 00 10
Conley
27 6- 8 9-10 3 71 23 21 4- 9 0- 0 3 31 11
21 3- 6 2- 4 2 01 8
8 2- 3 1- 2 3 04 5 220 40-98 19-28 39 19 22 106
WHITE MIN FG FT R A PF PTS George Faried Jordan
Holiday 27 6-13 0- 0 7 50 12 Irving
Lawson 21 3- 5 0- 0 2 90 7 Parsons
Anderson 13 3- 4 0- 0 2 03 9 Drummond 13 5- 8 1- 3 6 14 11 Kidd-Gilchrist19 3- 5 2- 2 7 11 8 Zeller Totals
14 3- 7 2- 2 5 01 8 240 47-82 24-35 59 27 19 128
USA Blue USA White
30 21 28 27 -- 106 23 30 36 39 -- 128
3PT FGs-USA Blue (7-17): Barnes 2-2, Lillard 1-5, Waiters 1-3, Hayward 1-2, Thompson 1-2, Wall 1-1, Walker 0-1, DeRozan 0-1; USA White (10-21): Conley 3-5, Anderson 3-3, Irving 2-2, George 1-4, Lawson 1-2, Parsons 0-3, Holiday 0-2, Drummond 0-1; TO-USA Blue 11, USA White 18; BLKS-USA Blue 3, USA White 7; STLS-USA Blue 16, USA White 6.
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