outscored Australia 22-16 in the third quarter and posted a 17-15 scoring advantage in the fourth.
“Our defense,” answered Frazier
when asked what fueled the USA runs. “We got up into them full court with defensive pressure; our press was very effective and we just forced turnovers the rest of the half so I think it was all defense, we made offense off our defense.”
USA 71, Serbia 62 After five blowout wins, the USA
was tested by Serbia in its final game of the second round, and the U.S. made the plays required on the offensive and defensive ends to claim a hard-fought 71-62 victory. “This was a real physical battle and
game,” said Donovan. In a match-up of two undefeated
teams, Serbia handled the USA’s pres- sure defense in the game’s early goings, and with the USA trailing 9-8, the red, white and blue got scoring from four different players in an 11-2 run that lift- ed the U.S. to a 19-11 lead with 1:25 left in the quarter. Serbia tallied the final
USA 71, Serbia 62 July 3, 2013
SRB
Novak Micic
Jokic
Kutlesic Totals
USA
Jankovic 21 1- 4 0- 0 2 03 2 Andric Salic
16 0- 1 0- 0 2 02 0 35 4-12 2- 4 3 12 13 36 6-11 9-12 2 34 24
Milutinov 22 3- 6 1- 1 3 04 7 Pot
19 2- 4 0- 0 3 01 4 21 4- 7 2- 4 7 31 10 3 0- 1 0- 0 0 00 0 200 21-51 14-21 27 9 21 62
Winslow 18 2- 3 4- 4 6 02 8 Harrell Stokes Payton
12 0- 5 0- 2 5 02 0 23 2- 3 0- 0 2 23 4
Sulaimon 29 7-12 0- 1 5 02 15 Gordon Okafor
26 5-14 1- 1 9 13 11 15 7-11 2- 5 3 03 16
Williams-Goss 23 2- 6 0- 0 1 02 4 Smart
Frazier
9 1- 3 0- 0 1 05 2 2 0- 0 0- 0 0 00 0
Robinson 17 1- 4 0- 0 3 30 2 Tobey DNP Totals
Serbia USA
19 16 15 21 -- 71
3PT FGs-Serbia (6-20): Novak 3-8, Micic 3-5, Andric 0-3, Jokic 0-2, Jankovic 0-1, Pot 0-1; USA (1-2): Sulaimon 1-1, Gordon 0-1; TO-Serbia 18, USA 15; BLKS-Serbia 1, USA 4; STLS-Serbia 7, USA 12.
42
200 31-69 8-15 46 6 24 71 15 11 21 15 -- 62
MIN FG FT R A PF PTS 26 4- 8 1- 2 7 02 9
MIN FG FT R A PF PTS 27 1- 5 0- 0 2 24 2
Elfrid Payton (left) may have been lesser known coming into the USA U19 training camp but he quickly established himself as a versatile talent. Justise Winslow (right), the youngest member of the USA U19 Team at 17 years old, averaged 9.8 points and 6.0 rebounds a game.
four points of the quarter, and the U.S. led 19-15 after the first 10 minutes. Ahead 25-21, four players again
scored during a USA10-0 run that increased its lead to 35-21 with 55 seconds left before halftime. But again Siberia closed the stanza strong, this time with five straight points that left the score 35-26 at half. Leading by as many as 12 points in
the third period, the U.S. was unable to distance itself further, and Serbia chipped the lead down to two points, 46- 44, with 1:13 left in the third period. Okafor scored in the paint to make
it 48-44, but Serbia’s Jovan Novak con- nected from beyond the 3-point line to make it a one-point game, 48-47. Williams-Goss gave the USA some
additional breathing room when he hit a short jumper off a drive with just 2 seconds left in the third quarter. Taking a 50-47 advantage into the
fourth, the U.S. was up 56-52 with 6:38 left in the game. On his first and only 3-point attempt
of the game, Sulaimon hit nothing but net and 40 seconds later followed that up with a basket in the paint. “Really coach called it,” Sulaimon
said about his critical 3-pointer. “We’d been running a pin down on me the last couple of times on the offensive posses- sions and they were cheating so he just
told me to fade and we executed it per- fectly. Aaron Gordon made a great pass, Montrezl Harrell had a great screen and when the shot presented itself to me I just took it with confidence. It was a big time in the game and I’m just glad that it went in.” After a defensive stop on the other
end, Gordon scored off an offensive rebound to push the U.S. ahead 63-52 with 5:02 remaining and the USA went on to earn the 71-62 victory. “I thought Rasheed (Sulaimon) put
up a couple of big shots. He knocked down a three, had a chance for a three- point play in the lane, and we had a couple of offensive rebounds where we opened up the game from four right up to 11. Those were some big plays that Rasheed made,” said Donovan. “Really everybody contributed in one way or another. I thought our press was effec- tive in the first half, we probably weren’t as effective in the second half as we needed to be but overall I think it was a game where we can learn a lot from the grind and the battle that went into it.” Okafor headed the U.S. offensive
effort with 16 points; Sulaimon finished with 15 points and five rebounds; Gordon collected 11 points and nine rebounds, six on the offensive end; and Harrell added nine points and seven rebounds.
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