After threes from Kilpatrick and
Graham, and a score from Jefferson, Czech Republic posted its own 7-0 run, but the USA still led 41-22 at halftime.
“I think when we play defense
really well against the other team, it gets them out of their game, and then the offense comes easier for us,” Graham said.
With the game’s outcome all but
decided, the USA outscored the Czechs 25-16 in the third and 30-15 in the fourth to bring the game to its 96-53 final.
The USA’s largest lead of the game,
44 points (96-52), came at 1:09 in the fourth quarter after an alley-oop dunk from Ferrell to Haws for the finish.
USA 85, Sweden 63 After a tight first half, the
Americans outscored Sweden 27-17 in the third quarter to up a 10-point halftime lead to a comfortable 20-point
USA 96, Czech Republic 53 July 8, 2013
CZE
Mares Ciz
Peterka Slavik
MIN FG FT R A PF PTS 19 1- 5 0- 0 1 11 2 20 1- 7 0- 0 2 11 2 28 5- 8 0- 0 2 04 12 21 3- 6 0- 0 6 03 6
Gniadek 16 0- 3 0- 0 0 23 0 Sotnar
Zampach 11 2- 5 0- 0 2 01 4 Vlcek Cvek
20 3- 6 1- 2 3 23 9 10 1- 2 1- 1 0 01 3
Jiricek
12 0- 4 0- 0 1 01 0 4 0- 2 0- 0 1 00 0
Krakovic 17 1- 8 2- 5 4 01 4 Voslajer 22 3- 8 5- 5 3 00 11 Totals
USA
Hancock 17 5-11 0- 0 2 01 15 Dinwiddie 22 2- 6 1- 2 2 32 5 Graham 19 2- 8 1- 2 7 31 6 McDermott 28 8-15 5- 5 10 10 23 Payne Ferrell
9 2- 4 3- 4 6 14 7 19 3- 6 0- 0 2 42 7
Sheehey 16 4- 5 0- 0 4 41 10 Haws
Totals
13 1- 4 0- 0 3 03 2 7 0- 1 2- 2 4 01 2 200 35-82 14-17 62 17 16 96
20 21 25 30 -- 96 12 1- 4 0- 0 1 01 2
Kilpatrick 15 2- 9 2- 2 1 10 7 Jefferson 23 5- 9 0- 0 15 00 10 White Kirk
Czech Republic 9 13 16 15 -- 53 USA
3PT FGs-Czech Republic (4-21): Sotnar 2-5, Peterka 2-4, Ciz 0-4, Mares 0-3, Cvek 0-2, Gniadek 0-1, Krakovic 0-1, Zampach 0-1; USA (12-36): Hancock 5-10, McDermott 2-7, Sheehey 2-2, Graham 1-5, Kilpatrick 1-5, Ferrell 1-3, Dinwiddie 0-1, Payne 0-1, Haws 0-1, White 0-1. TO-Czech Republic 18, USA 12; BLKS-Czech Republic 2, USA 3; STLS-Czech Republic 2, USA 10.
USA Basketball News
200 20-64 9-13 29 6 19 53 MIN FG FT R A PF PTS
Luke Hancock hit 9-of-13 shots and 5-of-6 3-point attempts to tally 27 points against Canada, which tied for sixth for the highest single game scoring effort by a USA player at the World University Games.
margin and went on to earn an 83-65 win.
Trailing 27-26 with 4:24 remaining
in the second period, the USA strung together 11 unanswered points to take a 37-27 lead at the midway point. The U.S. carried the momentum into
the second half. After shooting a chilly 39.4 percent (13-33 FGs) in the first half, the USA shooting warmed to 56.3 per- cent (9-16 FGs) in the third quarter to pull away from Sweden. Ferrell led the Americans with 20
points, including 4-of-7 shooting from 3-point, while Graham added 14 points and seven boards. Jefferson grabbed a game-high 10 rebounds to go with eight points, and Dinwiddie dished out a game-high six assists. “First of all, Frank Martin (USA
assistant coach) did an outstanding job in terms of preparing our team,” said McKillop. “We knew they were going to hold the ball. We knew they were going to work the clock. We knew they were going to tempt us to get a little too aggressive offensively and then become almost a half-court team, allowing them to run their sets. In the second half, we became a little bit more aggressive in terms of forcing them to run their sets a
certain way. We got some stops, and some guys made terrific plays in the open court, but Frank gave us a great scouting report.” Graham, Jefferson and Payne
combined to help the USA take a 9-4 lead at 6:04. Sweden fought back to within one point, 11-10, at the 2:45 mark, and then led 15-14 following a 3-pointer with 46.4 seconds left in the first stanza. A made free throw from Haws
tied the game at 15-all before Sweden’s Chris Czerapowicz, who plays for USA head coach McKillop at Davidson College, sank a 3-pointer with 19.0 seconds showing on the clock. Ferrell answered right back with his own three with 1.2 seconds left before the buzzer, and the USA headed into the second stanza leading 18-17. The second quarter saw the
USA put up the first four points before the teams traded baskets until 6:10, when Czerapowicz once again gave his side a lead with a 3-pointer, 27-26. This time,
Hancock answered for the USA, and his two points were the start of the 11-0 spurt that saw the red, white and blue finish the first half ahead 37-27. “Our offense was a little sluggish,”
Ferrell said of the first half. “We were trying to make too many ‘home runs’ as coach says, shoot too many threes and we weren’t really hitting but we kept shooting. I felt we finished out the half pretty well with a 10-point lead. We kind of got it inside a little more, and then we kind of opened it up in the second half.” A made free throw from Payne at
7:09 was the first of nine-straight points for the USA, which led 51-33 after Dinwiddie pulled up for two points at 4:45.
Sweden nearly kept pace with the
USA from there, matching the USA’s next 13 third-quarter points with 11 of it’s own to trail 64-44 headed into the final quarter. Sheehey scored all seven of his
points in the fourth quarter as the U.S. lead reached as high as 27 points, 83-56. Sweden, however, tallied the last nine points of the game to outscore the USA 21-19 in the period and bring the score to its 83-65 final.
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