reached its 93-84 final when Cadee converted a three-point play in the closing seconds. Australia also got 22
points from Cameron Bairstow, who plays alongside the USA’s Kirk at the University of New Mexico.
Canada 94, USA 85 Despite 27 points from
Hancock, the 2013 U.S. fell to undefeated Canada 94-85 in its final preliminary-round game. The loss dropped the USA to third place in Group C and eliminated the Americans from the medal round. “Canada certainly is a very
good team,” said McKillop. “They look like a team, they played like a team. Our guys emptied their gas tanks. They gave a great effort, but we fell short.” Fairly even in most statistical
Pouring in 20 points in the USA’s win over Sweden, Yogi Ferrell over the course of the USA’s eight games averaged 10.3 points, 3.0 rebounds and 4.4 assists a game.
With three 3-pointers and two scores
in the first 3:24 of the fourth quarter, Australia quickly erased that margin and built a 72-65 lead, while the USA went scoreless from the field and made just one free throw in that time. The USA ended the drought with a
score from Dinwiddie at 6:20 and an alley-oop to Jefferson at 5:47 that shrunk the gap to 72-69, but Australia again jumped ahead with a six straight points to take command 78-69 with 4:22 to play.
A 3-pointer from McDermott
followed by two free throws from Kilpatrick pulled the USA back within four, 83-79, at 1:28. But Cadee scored four-straight points out of a timeout to put Australia back up 87-79. With the USA calling a timeout at
30.2, McDermott hit a three out of the break to cut the deficit to 87-82 at 28 seconds, and Kilpatrick scored a drive at 20.2 to keep the USA’s hopes alive, 88-84. As the USA was forced to foul,
Cadee missed two free throws at 18.8 seconds, but Australia collected the offensive rebound and was fouled, resulting in two points. The game
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categories, the biggest differences were Canada’s 52 points in the paint, compared to the USA’s 22, and 17 U.S. turnovers as opposed to Canada’s 12. In addition to Hancock’s 27
points, McDermott added 17 points and nine rebounds, Jefferson finished with 17 points and seven boards and Dinwiddie dished out a game-high eight assists. “We didn't defend well enough to
win the game,” Hancock said. “That's as simple as it gets. If you give up that many points, it's going to be hard to win games no matter what you do.” Eight points from Hancock and four
from Jefferson helped the USA jump out to a 14-4 lead just five minutes into the game, but two 3-pointers from Canada and a score from the field helped Canada fight its way back to within two points 14-12 at 2:20. After a 3-pointer from Jefferson, Canada closed the first period on a 6-0 run to take an 18-17 advantage into the second stanza. Canada scored first in the second
quarter, but the USA battled to remain within one point for the first four minutes, trailing 25-24 after Ferrell made two free throws at 6:01. Canada reeled off 10 straight points,
its largest run of the game, to jump ahead 35-24 at 4:44. Despite three 3-pointers from the USA over last three
minutes of the second quarter, Canada connected from deep and converted a three-point play to help maintain a 10-point lead, and the scoreboard read 46-36 at halftime. Three times in the first 4:29 of the
third quarter, the USA cut into the margin to pull within six points, thanks in part to eight points from McDermott during that stretch. The last time was at 5:31 after two made free throws from Jefferson, when the USA trailed 54-48. Six unanswered points from Canada
from there, however, were the start of a 15-5 run that gave Canada its largest lead of the game at 16 points, 69-53, with 43.4 seconds remaining in the third. Jefferson scored from the field with
19.0 seconds to play in the third and Graham sank a running 3-pointer from nearly half court at the buzzer to head into the final 10 minutes with the USA behind 69-58. The Canadian lead jumped back to 16 points at 9:20 after a three from
Canada 94, USA 85 July 12, 2013
USA MIN FG FT R A PF PTS
Hancock 27 9-13 4- 5 5 24 27 Dinwiddie 29 2- 5 0- 0 4 83 5 Graham 25 3- 6 2- 4 5 11 9 McDermott 30 6-18 0- 0 9 11 17 Jefferson 29 6- 7 4- 6 7 03 17 Ferrell
Sheehey 11 1- 5 0- 0 2 10 3 Haws
Kilpatrick 13 1- 6 0- 0 2 10 3 White Payne Kirk
13 1- 6 2- 2 1 22 4 3 0- 2 0- 0 1 01 0 9 0- 1 0- 0 1 01 0
Totals CAN
Pangos Ejim
9 0- 3 0- 0 2 02 0 2 0- 0 0- 0 1 01 0 200 29-72 12-17 44 16 19 85
MIN FG FT R A PF PTS 21 4- 9 0- 1 2 20 9 21 3- 7 2- 2 7 02 8
T. Scrubb 21 3- 7 1- 1 1 32 8 Mullings 21 4- 9 0- 0 7 22 8 Powell Heslip Wiltjer
17 2- 6 6-10 6 14 10 19 6-12 4- 4 5 12 20 4 1- 1 0- 0 1 00 2
P. Scrubb 19 2- 5 0- 0 4 50 5 Bachynski 19 6- 8 1- 4 1 01 13 Burnatowski 19 2- 5 0- 0 2 00 5 Klassen 19 2- 3 2- 2 4 12 6 Totals
USA Canada
200 35-72 16-24 42 15 15 94 17 19 22 27 -- 85
18 28 23 25 -- 94
3PT FGs-USA (15-32): McDermott 5-11, Hancock 5-6, Kilpatrick 1-4, Dinwiddie 1-3, Graham 1-3, Jefferson 1-1, Sheehey 1-1, Ferrell 0-2, Haws 0-1; Canada (8-15): Heslip 4-8, P. Scrubb 1-2, T. Scrubb 1-2, Pangos 1-2, Burnatowski 1-1. TO- USA 17, Canada 12; BLKS-USA 3, Canada 6; STLS- USA 3, Canada 4.
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