Brady Heslip, who led Canada with 20 points, but the USA never quit fighting. Sinking six 3-pointers in the period,
the USA twice pulled within eight points over the next five minutes – 80-72 after a three from Kilpatrick at 5:46 and 83-75 at 4:58 when Hancock connected from deep. Each time, Canada responded. Down by 13 with 2:05 left in the
contest, Hancock made another 3-pointer before sinking one-of-two free throws at 1:27 and scoring a layup at 1:07 to bring the USA within seven points, 92-85. As the USA missed its last three
shot attempts, a fast break score from Canada at 1:01 put the game’s final points on the board. The game did not end simply, how-
ever, as the power in the arena went out at 10.6 seconds, and after a wait of approximately five minutes, the USA inbounded the ball in a darkened arena and dribbled out the clock. “You have to give a lot of credit to
USA 91, Norway 51 July 14, 2013
NOR Stien
Jawara Bolin Mjos
MIN FG FT R A PF PTS 20 1-10 2- 2 3 12 4 28 2- 7 0- 0 7 32 5 17 1- 3 0- 0 3 10 3 30 3-12 0- 0 4 24 8
Sommerfeldt 11 2- 4 0- 0 2 14 6 Midtvedt 11 1- 2 0- 0 1 12 3 Boehn Ostbye
9 0- 4 0- 0 0 00 0 16 3- 9 1- 2 2 21 8
Lundestad 12 0- 6 0- 0 3 13 0 Fivelstad 16 1- 2 0- 0 3 12 2 Nwachukwu 23 4- 8 1- 6 6 24 10 Bradascio 7 1- 1 0- 0 1 01 2 Totals
USA
Sheehey 18 7- 9 2- 3 4 23 16 Hancock 23 2- 6 0- 1 3 61 4 Dinwiddie 20 4- 5 0- 1 0 81 9 McDermott 18 2- 6 4- 6 5 30 10 Jefferson 16 5- 6 1- 2 7 01 11 Ferrell Haws
28 2- 8 3- 6 6 70 8 15 3- 6 3- 5 3 02 9
Kilpatrick 16 2- 7 0- 0 0 31 6 White Payne Kirk
Graham Totals
Norway USA
22 4- 7 2- 4 7 00 11 14 1- 2 1- 2 5 01 3 10 2- 3 0- 0 8 01 4 DNP-Injured
200 34-65 16-30 51 29 11 91 15 10 15 11 -- 51
17 26 21 27 -- 91
3PT FGs-Norway (9-27): Sommerfeldt 2-3, Mjos 2-4, Midtvedt 1-1, Nwachukwu 1-1, Jawara 1-2, Bolin 1-3, Ostbye 1-4, Lundestad 0-1, Boehn 0-3, Stien 0-5; USA (7-23): McDermott 2-5, Kilpatrick 2-5, Dinwiddie 1-2, White 1-2, Ferrell 1-5, Hancock 0-3, Sheehey 0-1. TO-Norway 19, USA 14; BLKS- Norway 1, USA 3; STLS- Norway 5, USA 13.
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Canada,” Haws said. “They hit big shot after big shot and had lots of threes.”
USA 91, Norway 51 Dishing out 29 assists on 34
made baskets, the USA raced past Norway for a 91-51 win. Sheehey led the USA with 16
points; while Jefferson and White both finished with 11 points and seven rebounds; and McDermott also reached double figures with 10 points. Helping the USA to score 38
fast break points, compared to Norway’s 10, and 23 points off of 19 Norwegian turnovers were Dinwiddie with eight assists and nine points, Ferrell with seven assists and eight points and Hancock with six assists. “When you lose two in a row and
are knocked out of the medal round, it’s tough to get off the mat, and these guys showed that they were capable of that today,” said McKillop. “They showed it by their unselfishness and their team defense.” The USA’s unselfish play and
44 points in the paint helped combat its 30.4 percent shooting from deep (7-23 3pt FGs) and its icy 53.3 percent shooting from the free throw line (16-30 FTs). “The coaches said it best, we moved
200 19-68 4-10 37 15 25 51 MIN FG FT R A PF PTS
the ball and got easy baskets,” Sheehey said. “Our defensive pressure was better today, too, and that also leads to easy baskets.”
Norway was able to almost keep
pace with the USA in the first 10 min- utes of the game, due in part to the USA shooting just 35.7 percent from the field (5-14 FGs) in the first quarter and also to five U.S. turnovers. Norway cut the USA’s eight-point lead, 17-9, at 2:16 to just two points by the first intermission after closing on a 6-0 run to trail 17-15. The USA’s shooting warmed up
however, and the Americans finished at 52.3 percent from the field (34-65 FGs) for the game. While holding Norway scoreless for
the first 4:23 of the second period, five U.S. scorers put up 15 points to help widen the USA lead to 32-15 at 5:49. A 3-pointer from Norway ended the onslaught, but the damage had been
Will Sheehey shot a blistering 58.7 percent from the field and made 63.6 percent (7-of-11) of his 3-point attempts, while adding 10.6 points and 3.5 rebounds a game.
done, and the USA headed into the half- time locker room with a 43-25 lead and control of the game’s momentum. The red, white and blue continued to
improve its advantage, outscoring Norway 21-15 in the third quarter and 27-11 in the fourth to bring the game to its 91-51 final score. With a score from Haws at the 9:29
mark in the fourth quarter, all 11 healthy U.S. players had scored, and a 3-pointer from Ferrell with just 1:06 remaining marked the USA’s largest lead of the game, 43 points, at 89-46. “We started having fun again, and I
think that’s important because everyone was starting to hit shots and getting open dunks,” said Kirk. “I think that kind of got the energy going, and then our bench came through. The second set sparked that, so that was a lot of fun.”
USA 92, Germany 70 Including four players in double-
figure scoring and 30 points off the bench, the USA defeated Germany 92-70. The win advanced the USA into the game for
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