in the FIBA U19 World Championship after it was learned on June 25 that he has been diagnosed with mononucleosis. Guard James Robinson (University of Pittsburgh/Mitchellville, Md.) was selected to replace him and complete the USA 12-man roster. Gordon, who averaged USA highs
of 12.6 points and 6.2 rebounds a game, plus 2.0 steals a game, while shooting 61.2 percent from the field, was selected MVP of the U19 World Championship. Joining him on the five-player U19 all- tournament team was teammate Okafor, and rounding out the team were Vasilje Micic of Serbia, Dante Exum of Australia and Dario Saric of Croatia. Originally known as the FIBA Junior
World Championship, the tournament was held every four years between 1979-2007 and FIBA now conducts the U19 World Championship every two years. USA men's teams are 78-13 in the U19/Junior World Championships and have won five gold and three silver medals.
USA 88, Ivory Coast 29 After outscoring Ivory Coast 34-10
USA 88, Ivory Coast 29 June 27, 2013
USA
Harrell Stokes Payton
MIN FG FT R A PF PTS 13 3- 6 0- 0 5 21 6 11 5- 9 2- 3 4 10 12 18 3- 6 3- 4 7 11 9
Sulaimon 17 1- 2 0- 0 2 01 3 Smart
Winslow 21 6-10 2- 4 7 22 14 Gordon Tobey Okafor
15 2- 5 0- 0 1 30 5 20 6- 8 0- 0 5 40 12
16 2- 5 2- 2 6 22 6 11 5- 6 0- 2 4 01 10
Williams-Goss 22 3- 5 0- 0 4 21 7 Frazier
Robinson 18 1- 5 0- 0 4 32 2 Totals
CIV
A. Traore 19 1- 4 0- 0 4 04 2 D. Traore 29 3-13 3- 6 5 03 9 A. Toure 35 2- 9 1- 2 4 11 6 Adjei
36 1- 9 0- 0 5 01 2
O. Toure 34 3- 9 0- 0 2 02 8 Karaboue 15 0- 3 2- 4 0 01 2 Sanogo Bah
Totals USA
Ivory Coast
34 22 19 13 -- 88 10 757 -- 29
3PT FGs-USA (3-9): Sulaimon 1-1, Smart 1-1, Williams-Goss 1-1, Frazier 0-4, Gordon 0-1, Robinson 0-1; Ivory Coast (3-11): O. Toure 2-4, A. Toure 1-4, Adjei 0-3; TO-USA-12, Ivory Coast 21; BLKS-USA 5, Ivory Coast 3; STLS-USA 12, Ivory Coast 7.
38
25 0- 4 0- 0 2 01 0 7 0- 4 0- 0 3 00 0 200 10-55 6-12 26 1 13 29
18 1- 8 0- 0 5 10 2 200 38-75 9-15 59 21 11 88
MIN FG FT R A PF PTS
over the game’s first 10 min- utes, the suspense about the USA’s opening game was over quickly as a balanced scoring effort helped pace the Americans to an 88-29 win. Ivory Coast’s 29 points
were the fewest allowed by a USA U19 team in the history of the FIBA event that started in 1979 and has includes 91 games.
Seventeen-year-old
Winslow, the USA’s youngest player, scored a game-high 14 points and tied for a team-high with seven rebounds, while Gordon and Stokes each tossed in 12 points and Okafor added 10 points. Payton finished with nine points, and posted seven boards, one assist, one blocked shot and one steal. “I thought we got off to a
really good start; the press was good, we turned them over; we played very unselfish. We had I think in the first half 12 assists, five turnovers,” said Donovan. Utilizing its depth and ath-
Although just 17 years old, 6’6” forward Aaron Gordon collected Most Valuable Player honors at the FIBA U19 World Championship after helping lead the U.S. to a perfect 9-0 record and the gold medal.
leticism right from the opening tip, if it wasn’t a turnover that the USA was con- verting into a slam, then the U.S. was going inside where it dominated. Trailing 2-1, the U.S. got baskets
from big men Stokes, Harrell and Gordon to take control 14-4 with the game just minutes old. The USA put the game away with a
quarter-ending 20-4 offensive run that left the score 34-10 with three periods left to play. Nine U.S. players scored in the game’s first 10 minutes. By halftime the USA owned a 56-17
advantage. Outscoring Ivory Coast 19-5 in the third quarter, the U.S. out-pro- duced the West African nation 13-7 to capture the decisive 88-29 win. “The one thing we have really tried
to sell these guys on is the fact that prob- ably most teams here don’t have the level of depth that we have and you’re unable to use your depth unless your depth is playing at a really, really high level every single time they’re out there, every minute they’re out there. We need guys to give maximum effort and if they get tired giving maximum effort we’ll
get them out and put a fresh guy in, and we’ll get maximum effort again. I think that’s kind of the philosophy to constant- ly try and keep pressure by playing with fresh bodies at a high level of intensity,” added Donovan. The USA, which shot 68.8 percent
in the first half, while recording 14 assists on its 24 makes, finished the night shooting 50.7 percent and with 21 assists. Ivory Coast managed to make just 18.2 percent of its attempts from the floor, and the USA forced 21 turnovers and owned a 59-26 advantage on the glass.
USA 113, China 57 A defense that chased China into
32 turnovers and an inside game that saw the Americans command 30 offensive boards and outrebound their opponents 50 to 14, combined to lead the USA to its second consecutive 56 point-plus victory as the USA recorded a dominat- ing 113-57 win.
“The first 15 points they scored
were on five 3-point shots. We fouled a 3-point shooter on the first possession of the game and then we gave up four 3s.
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