USA 98, Turkey 77 With the USA trailing 2010
World Championship silver medal- ist Turkey by five points at half- time, U.S. big men Davis and Faried stepped up and combined for 19 of the USA’s 31 points in the third quarter and 33 in the second half to help the USA take control and earn a 98-77 win.
Faried finished with 22 points,
eight rebounds, three steals and two blocked shots while shooting 11-of- 14 from the field, and Davis, who scored all 19 of his points in the second half, also grabbed six rebounds, blocked a pair of shots and made 8-of-11 shots for the game.
“We won and we won because
we deserved to win,” said Krzyzewski. “Our guys played their hearts out, and that was a big win for us against a really good team.”
Turkey controlled the tempo
Already owning Olympic gold, James Harden averaged a team leading 14.2 points a game and added a FIBA World Cup gold medal to his growing collection.
Harden recaptured what would have
been a U.S. turnover and found Gay for an alley-oop at 3:15, which ignited a 14-4 U.S. run that closed the first quarter with the USA leading 31-16. The second period found Finland
completely stymied by the USA. While Finland scored its only two points from the line at 6:25, the USA made 13-of-17 shots from the field and led 60-18 at half- time.
Finland actually outscored the USA
14-12 over the first 6:25 of the third quarter, but the effort essentially was for the Finnish fans, as the USA still led by 40 points, 72-32, at the peak of that run at 4:45. From there, the USA outscored Finland 17-7 to lead 89-39 headed into the final 10 minutes. The USA broke triple-digits on the
scoreboard at 5:22 in the fourth quarter when Gay finished a fast-break that was started by a steal and assist from Irving, and the USA secured an easy win.
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early on and managed to prevent the USA from finding any rhythm. Turkey was also helped by the USA sending Turkey to the line 18 times for 13 points in the first half.
In the second half, the USA
limited Turkey to just 3-of-7 shooting from the free throw line.
With Turkey ahead 10-5, a 9-0 U.S. run gave the Americans a 14-10
lead, but Turkey responded with a 6-0 spurt of its own to lead 16-14.
Cousins, who finished with 11
points, put the last two points of the period on the board to tie the game at 16-all at the first break. The USA shot just 1-of-9 from beyond the arc in the first 10 minutes.
The second quarter saw four lead
changes and five tied scores as the teams battled back and forth. With the score tied at 32 late in the first half, Turkey hit back-to-back 3-pointers grab a 38-32 lead. Thompson made a long ball for the USA to make it 40-35 in Turkey’s favor, and that was how the teams headed into the halftime locker room.
Five times the score was tied in the
third quarter before the USA was able to begin to break free. With the score knotted at 59 with 3:10 left in the third period, Faried scored off an offensive rebound, followed by a 3-pointer from
Curry, and the USA led 64-60 after Turkey made a free throw at 1:14.
Faried made another of his game-
impacting plays with 57 seconds left when he stole an inbounds pass and slammed the ball home to give the USA a 66-60 lead at the third-quarter break. “I think it was 64-60, we had missed
a couple of close in shots and he (Kenneth Faried) got that steal and dunk that put us up 66-60, and I think that was the biggest play of the game,” said Krzyzewski. By the time the fourth quarter was
just 2:08 old, the Americans had jetted to a 16-point lead after posting 10 unan- swered points that included 3-pointers from Thompson and Harden, who fin- ished with an impressive line of 14 points, seven assists, three steals and 5-of-6 shooting from the free throw line. Turkey interrupted the spurt with
three points, but Davis reeled off six straight points to put the USA up by 20,
USA 98, Turkey 77 August 31, 2014
USA Curry Faried Irving
MIN FG FT R A PF PTS 24 3-11 0- 0 232 9 28 11-14 0- 0 812 22 24 5- 9 1- 2 353 13
Harden 25 4- 7 5- 6 073 14 Davis
Thompson 25 2- 7 0- 0 122 6 Rose Gay
26 8-11 3- 5 603 19 17 0- 4 2- 4 202 2
DeRozan 5 1- 3 0- 0 200 2 Plumlee
9 0- 0 0- 0 224 0 4 0- 0 0- 0 000 0
Cousins 13 5- 8 1- 2 312 11 Drummond DNP Totals 200 39-74 12-19 32 21 23 98
TUR Guler Akyol Hersek Arsian Asik
MIN FG FT R A PF PTS 26 3- 6 1- 2 332 9 24 4- 9 2- 4 413 12 16 2- 4 3- 3 111 8 21 2- 7 3- 3 242 8 21 2- 2 2- 5 803 6
Osman 14 0- 2 0- 0 202 0 Ermis
4 2- 2 0- 0 101 5
Preldzic 22 2- 4 4- 6 252 9 Tunceri 18 1- 3 0- 0 122 3 Savas
Gonlum 14 2- 5 0- 0 202 4 Aldemir
15 4-10 1- 2 412 9 5 2- 2 0- 0 100 4
Totals 200 26-56 16-25 34 17 22 77 USA
Turkey
16 19 31 32 -- 98 16 24 20 17 -- 77
3PT FGs-USA (8-22): Curry 3-6, Thompson 2-7, Irving 2-3, Harden 1-3, Rose 0-3; Turkey (9-24): Akyol 2-5, Guler 2-4, Arsian 1-5, Hersek 1-2, Preldzic 1-2, Tunceri 1-2, Ermis 1-1, Osman 0-1, Savas 0-1, Gonlum 0-1; TO-USA 12, Turkey 28; BLKS- USA 4, Turkey 5; STLS-USA 17, Turkey 2.
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