Rico’s scoring efforts, while reeling off 17 unanswered points to claim a commanding 39-18 lead. Puerto Rico finally ended its scoring drought, which started late in the first quarter and lasted 9:16, with 3:14 remaining in the half. The U.S. matched Puerto Rico nearly point for point and at halftime led 47-25.
Six different players scored during
the run, including Rabb, who notched eight of the USA’s first 10 points of the second quarter and grabbed five boards during that time. Outscoring Puerto Rico 26-19 in the
third quarter, the U.S. eased up in the fourth quarter for the eventual 29-point victory.
After losing the first-quarter battle
on the boards 17-15, the U.S. went to work on the glass and closed the game with a 68-37 advantage. Also impressive was a 68-26 scoring
advantage in the paint and a 28-8 advantage off of second chances. The
USA 94, Argentina 48 June 15, 2013
ARG
Fjellerup 30 4-19 2- 4 7 33 13 Cuelho Boudet
Delfino 27 5-10 2- 2 6 14 12 Riego
26 1- 7 0- 0 4 13 2 32 6-13 0- 0 8 03 12
Aliende 20 0- 8 0- 0 2 63 0 Paciotti 14 1- 6 0- 0 0 11 2 Merchant 9 1- 3 0- 0 2 13 2 Arens
13 0- 1 2- 2 1 10 2
Fernandez, E. 5 0- 1 0- 0 0 11 0 Fernandez, M.7 1- 2 0- 0 0 02 3 Totals 200 19-78 6-10 42 16 24 48
USA Woods
MIN FG FT R A PF PTS 18 5- 8 0- 0 5 43 12
Newman 22 2-10 4- 4 2 40 9 Jackson 18 6- 9 3- 5 2 23 16 Rabb, Ivan 22 4-10 2- 4 11 13 10 Stone
17 2- 6 0- 0 5 13 4
Ramsey 16 1- 3 0- 0 1 32 2 Ferguson 20 2- 6 1- 1 6 11 5 King
Tatum Bryant
16 1- 5 4- 4 4 22 7 20 4-10 5- 6 6 12 14 18 3- 5 3- 4 10 21 9
Giddens 13 3- 3 0- 3 7 10 6 Giles
DNP -- Injured
Totals 200 33-75 22-31 61 22 20 94 Argentina
USA
87 20 13 -- 48 15 28 25 26 -- 94
3PT FGs-Argentina (4-27): Fjellerup 3-13, M. Fernandez 1-1, Boudet 0-4, Arens 0-1, Paciotti 0-2, Cuelho 0-3, Aliende 0-3; USA (6-20): Woods 2-4, Newman 1-4, Tatum 1-4, Jackson 1-2, King 1-3, Ramsey 0-2; Ferguson 0-1; TO-Argentina 22, USA 18; BLKS-Argentina 1, USA 15; STLS-Argentina 7, USA 12.
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Americans also converted Puerto Rico’s 24 turnovers into 26 points, while the USA coughed up the ball 20 times.
USA 94, Argentina 48 Behind a dominating 28-7 second
quarter, the USA accomplished exactly what the previous two USA U16 squads had done, vanquish all comers, including Argentina 94-48 in the championship game, en route to collecting gold at the FIBA Americas U16 Championship. Newman finished with nine points, four assists and four steals and earned
Top: Shooting 61.7 percent, Ivan Rabb averaged 12.0 points and a team best 9.8 rebounds a game. Above: Josh Jackson led the USA to the gold medal game victory with 16 points.
MIN FG FT R A PF PTS 17 0- 8 0- 2 4 11 0
tournament MVP honors; while Jackson was the game’s leading scorer with 16 points, Tatum added 14 to go with six boards, Woods had 12 points and four assists, Rabb posted a double-double of 10 points and 11 rebounds and Bryant missed out on a double-double by one point with nine points and 10 rebounds. “We really felt that our pressure
could hurt Argentina,” said Showalter, who is now a perfect 31-0 over the last five summers in FIBA and FIBA Americas competitions, winning three U16 zone championships and two U17 World titles. “We started out a little slow, but we didn’t put a lot of pressure on them to start with either. “We missed some easy shots and
then we got our press going. This might be one of the best pressing U16 teams that I’ve had the opportunity to coach. We went into our press and it really bothered Argentina. We got a lot a lot of easy baskets and some quick layups off of it.
“(Malik Newman) obviously
deserved it (MVP honors),” added Showalter. “His first two or three games were the best ones, but a good
player’s going to be noticed by other teams, so he’s going to have a little bit harder time of it. Tonight I thought he made some great passes, he played some great defense, hit some shots. He does a lot of things for this team and I think he deservedly gets the MVP.” Both teams seemed to feel the
pressure of the game and with nearly five minutes expired in the game, the score was just 8-6 in Argentina’s favor. That was about to change. For a team that shot just 55.3
percent (73-132 FTs) from the line in its first four games combined, the U.S. closed out the first quarter by sinking 9-of-10 from the line to take a 15-8 lead at the quarter break. “It was very important,” said Bryant
of the team’s shooting from the charity stripe to close the first quarter. “Since they were going to foul us, get us into the penalty, we had to make foul shots.” After allowing Argentina to knock
down a 3-pointer 16 seconds into the second period, the U.S. responded with a game-clinching 22-2 run that distanced the U.S. from their rivals 37-13 with
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