added Meier. “I loved coaching it, I loved the time outs, I loved the ebb and flow, I loved the special situations. I loved it. I was having a great time
during that game because you think, who’s going to hit the big shot? Who’s going to make the defensive stop? What are we going to do on a certain screen action. There were so many questions that we had to solve and we really hadn’t had to solve them yet in this tournament, so for me it was an encyclopedia of information to digest tonight and tomor- row before we play again on Friday.”
USA 108, Japan 67 Utilizing a 4-inch height advantage
Already owning gold medals from the 2012 U17 World Championship and 2011 U16 Championship, Linnae Harper added a U19 World Championship gold medal to her collection, and averaged 8.4 points, 5.0 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 2.0 steals a game.
was a really big play that we needed. We needed a stop and that’s what we were struggling to get. I think she did a great job of being really tough on the offen- sive end and then coming right back and being tough on defense.
Following Tuck’s free throw, USA
kept France from getting a shot off over the final 18 seconds for the win.
The game started off as a back and
forth affair and with 3:55 left in the first quarter, France held a 15-11 edge.
However, a put-back from Wilson
was followed by a pair of baskets from Tuck and Stewart closed the first half with a fast-break layin to give her side a 19-15 advantage. The American women never again trailed, and by the end of the first half the U.S. headed to the locker room up 30-24.
The third quarter was almost dead
even and the USA held an eight-point advantage, 54-46, with 10 minutes to play.
It looked as if the U.S. was going to
pull away in the final stanza after a Jefferson 3-pointer at 7:35 put the red, white and blue up 12, 63-51, but France’s defense helped fuel its offense to a 12-2 run that closed the game to 65-63 at 1:03.
The USA shot 39.7 percent from the
floor and France shot 38.8 percent. The rebound advantage was 43-40 to the
54 USA. “I loved every second of the game,”
USA 108, Japan 67 July 26, 2013
USA
Stewart Tuck
Graves Harper Plum Green Turner Coffey Wilson Agee
Totals JPN
Tamura
Jefferson 18 1- 6 2- 2 3 30 4 Jones
18 2- 9 0- 0 10 31 4 16 5- 8 0- 0 4 00 11 19 6-11 1- 1 8 11 13 22 6-10 0- 0 8 82 12 20 3-11 4- 4 2 23 11 11 2- 3 0- 0 5 01 4 18 3- 9 0- 0 6 00 6 17 5- 8 1- 1 6 10 11 16 8-14 3- 3 11 11 19 10 2- 7 2- 4 3 01 6 200 46-101 13-15 70 23 10 108
MIN FG FT R A PF PTS 32 1- 8 0- 0 4 52 3
Kawamura 30 4-13 1- 1 3 12 9 Masuoka 17 3- 6 2- 2 2 12 8 Nakamura 29 3- 9 2- 2 5 43 8 Hatakenaka 29 2- 9 0- 0 2 11 5 Hayasaka 11 0- 1 2- 2 1 01 2 Kitamura 16 7-11 3- 3 4 01 17 Kuma Kato
14 0- 4 0- 0 2 02 0 11 3- 6 0- 0 2 01 9
Kawakami 2 0- 0 0- 0 0 00 0 Nishoka Totals
9 2- 4 2- 2 0 00 6 200 25-71 12-12 32 12 15 67
USA Japan
23 28 30 27 -- 108 11 21 14 21 -- 67
3-PT FGs-USA (3-20): Tuck 1-3, Plum 1-7, Jones 1-2, Coffey 0-1, Green 0-1, Jefferson 0-3, Stewart, Breanna 0-2, Harper 0-1; Japan (5-22): Kato 3-4, Tamura 1-6, Hatakenaka 1-6, Kuma 0-1, Masuoka 0-1, Kitamura 0-4; TO-USA 10, Japan 18; BLKS- USA 7, Japan 2; STLS-USA 12, Japan 4.
MIN FG FT R A PF PTS 15 3- 5 0- 0 1 40 7
over her tallest match-up, Wilson posted game-highs of 19 points and 11 rebounds in leading the USA to a 108-67 quarterfi- nals victory over Japan. In dominating the glass by a 70-32
margin, the American women set a new USA U19 single-game rebounding record, eclipsing the former record of 68, set twice by the 2007 U.S. squad. All 12 U.S. team members scored no
less than four points apiece, including six in double digits. In addition to Wilson, who played just 16 minutes; Bashaara Graves topped out at 13 points and had eight boards; Harper scored 12 points, grabbed eight rebounds, five on the offensive glass, and dished out eight assists; while Coffey, Plum and Tuck chipped in 11 points apiece. “Bashaara Graves started the game
with a really tough mentality,” said Meier. “At the beginning of the game, Mo Jefferson, Morgan Tuck and Bashaara Graves were just taking care of business. They were very focused; they really wanted to respond. And then Stewie (Breanna Stewart) was all over the glass and that got us some options, some run-out opportunities. She’s so versatile with the ball. I felt good about players responding to what we chal- lenged them to do.” Going inside early and often, the
USA used its height advantage from the start. Bashaara Graves took a feed inside from Jones seven seconds into a game in which the American women never trailed.
After a Japan miss, Bashaara Graves
scored on a put-back. Japan got on the board with a pair from the line, but the
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