(Cleveland Cavaliers); Mason Plumlee (Brooklyn Nets); Derrick Rose (Chicago Bulls); and Klay Thompson (Golden State Warriors). Rounding out Krzyzewski’s USA
National Team coaching staff as assistant coaches were Syracuse University and Naismith Hall of Fame coach Jim Boeheim, Chicago Bulls head coach Tom Thibodeau and New Orleans Pelicans head coach Monty Williams. Featuring a balanced team effort that
saw seven players average between 9.6 and 14.2 points a game, the USA was led in scoring by six different players in its nine games. “We improved every game,” stated
Krzyzewski. “All the guys. We got to know each other. I can’t single out one guy because Kyrie is deserving of MVP, but I think you could look at our games and we had a different star each game. Klay Thompson was so critical for this team. DeMarcus tonight, James Harden,
USA 114, Finland 55 August 30, 2014
FIN Salin
Murphy 27 3- 9 4- 4 701 10 Huff Lee
7 2- 5 0- 0 105 4 18 0- 8 0- 0 001 0
Koponen 27 5-10 0- 0 341 12 Koivisto 16 0- 4 0- 0 001 0 Muurinen 13 0- 5 2- 2 203 2 Kotti
22 3- 6 0- 2 503 6
Nuutinen 11 1- 3 0- 0 100 2 Mottola 11 1- 6 0- 0 201 2 Lehto
10 0- 2 0- 0 003 0
Rannikko 17 0- 3 5- 5 213 5 Totals 200 18-65 15-17 31 5 24 55
USA Curry Faried Irving
MIN FG FT R A PF PTS 18 1- 6 2- 2 352 4 15 3- 3 0- 0 601 6 20 4- 7 0- 0 240 9
Harden 17 3- 5 3- 3 330 9 Davis
Thompson 22 7-10 0- 0 102 18 Rose Gay
14 6- 8 5- 5 413 17 23 3- 8 5- 5 232 12
17 5- 9 0- 1 503 10
DeRozan 16 1- 5 3- 4 042 5 Plumlee 12 3- 4 0- 0 101 6 Cousins 16 3- 4 3- 4 10 03 9 Drummond 10 4- 4 1- 1 400 9 Totals 200 43-73 22-25 46 20 19 114
Finland USA
16 2 21 16 -- 55 31 29 29 25 -- 114
3PT FGs-Finland (4-21): Koponen 2-4, Huff 2-3, Murphy 0-3, Mottola 0-3, Salin 0-2, Koivisto 0-2, Rannikko 0-2, Nuutinen 0-1, Lehto 0-1; USA (6-18): Thompson 4-7, Rose 1-2, Irving 1-1, Curry 0-5, DeRozan 0-2, Harden 0-1; TO-Finland 31, USA 19; BLKS- Finland 1, USA 4; STLS-Finland 10, USA 18.
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MIN FG FT R A PF PTS 21 3- 4 4- 4 302 12
Following in the footsteps of Shaquille O’Neal (1994) and Kevin Durant (2010), Kyrie Irving was selected MVP of the 2014 FIBA World Cup after helping the American squad to gold.
Anthony Davis, especially at the start of our run. Kenneth (Faried) gave us a lot of energy. It was not like there was one star. They were a championship team, and it was kind of cool. In 2010 Durant just kind of took us. He had an amazing performance. Team-wise this is a heck of a team. This was a really good team.” “This is as good for me as anything
– national championships, Olympics, this group and what they did was really special for me,” added Krzyzewski. Irving was named MVP of the
World Cup, and Faried joined Irving on the five-member FIBA World Cup All- Tournament Team, along with France’s Nicolas Batum, Spain’s Pau Gasol and Serbia’s Milos Teodosic. The USA won all nine of its World
Cup games in impressive fashion, and its +33.0 points per game margin of victory was the largest margin of a U.S. men’s team in a FIBA World Cup or Olympic Games since the 1994 World Championship (+37.8). With six players averaging double
figures, led by 14.2 points per game from Harden, the USA led the 24-team World Cup field in scoring offense (104.6 points a game), scoring margin (+33.0), field
goal percentage (.524), rebounding (44.8), rebound- ing margin (+9.0), defensive rebounds (29.9), assists (20.4), steals (12.1) and turnover margin (+8.3). By claiming the World
Cup championship the USA earned an automatic bid into the 2016 Rio de Janeiro
Olympic Games.
USA 114, Finland 55 The most impressive part
of the USA’s 114-55 rout of Finland in its opening game of the 2014 FIBA World Cup in fact was an entire quarter. In the whole second peri-
od, the USA allowed Finland just two made free throws and limited its opponent to 0-of-17 shooting from the field, while it raced to 29 points of its own to improve upon an already sizable first-quarter lead. The 59-point win was the
USA’s largest margin of victory in FIBA World Cup play since
NBA players have been included on rosters (1994). “Finland played hard for forty min-
utes, we played hard for forty minutes,” said Krzyzewski, who improved to 4-0 in FIBA World Cup opening games. “We’re more talented, but I thought the effort for both teams was at a high level. “Our defense was outstanding,
forcing 31 turnovers and to only give up I think five assists, I just thought our guys played very hard the whole time.” All 12 U.S. players scored, led by
18 points on 7-of-10 shooting from the field and 4-of-7 marksmanship from beyond the 3-point arc by Thompson. Davis was 6-of-8 from the field and 5-of-5 from the free throw line to finish with 17 points; Rose also was 5-of-5 from the line on his way to 12 points and three assists; and Gay added 10 points and five rebounds. It seemed that more than half of the
fans in the at-capacity Bizkaia Arena were Finnish, and buoyed by the crowd, Finland, which was playing in its first FIBA World Cup contest, trailed 17-12 early in the game before the USA made its move.
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