101-68. As both teams finished of the game with respective 3-pointers, the buzzer sounded on a 106-71 win for the USA.
USA 95, Ukraine 71 The USA wrapped up its prelimi-
nary-round play with a 95-71 win against Ukraine. After a first-quarter fight that saw Ukraine take a five-point lead at the first break, the USA battled back to secure control of the game and led 44-32 at halftime and 69-53 at the third-quarter intermission. “I thought we got off to a very slow
start offensively,” said Krzyzewski. “I thought our defense was good through- out until we got a pretty good lead. They were 1-for-13 from 3, we really wanted to take away their 3-point shooting and I thought we did that until later. “I think this team has been pretty
USA head coach Mike Krzyzewski led the United States to its first ever back-to-back World Cup gold medal finishes. Head coach of four USA World Cup teams, Coach K has now complied a 32-3 record.
USA 106, Dominican Republic 71 September 3, 2014
USA Curry Faried Irving
MIN FG FT R A PF PTS 21 3- 7 0- 0 672 8 18 8-11 0- 0 603 16 27 3- 7 0- 0 223 6
Harden 18 3- 6 3- 5 332 10 Davis
Thompson 22 3- 7 0- 0 132 8 Rose Gay
20 5-10 0- 0 700 10 13 2- 5 2- 2 130 6
DeRozan 18 5- 8 0- 0 221 11 Plumlee
16 3- 5 3- 5 452 9 7 2- 3 1- 2 111 5
Cousins 12 5- 5 3- 5 522 13 Drummond 8 2- 4 0- 0 300 4 Totals 200 44-78 12-19 43 28 18 106
DOM Sosa Liz
MIN FG FT R A PF PTS 21 4- 9 0- 0 141 9 24 6-11 1- 3 311 15
Feldeine 20 2- 7 0- 0 642 5 Vargas Baez
13 2- 6 0- 0 401 4 13 1- 3 0- 0 114 2
Fortuna 18 2- 8 0- 0 323 6 Coronado 19 0- 5 0- 0 232 0 Santana 17 3- 8 5- 5 212 11 Sanchez 18 2- 3 0- 0 204 4 Ramon 16 2- 5 0- 0 002 5 Martinez 21 4- 6 2- 2 501 10 Totals 200 28-71 8-10 40 16 23 71
USA 25 31 25 25 -- 106 Dominican Republic 22 19 11 19 -- 71
3PT FGs-USA (6-21): Thompson 2-5, Curry 2-4, Harden 1-4, DeRozan 1-3, Irving 0-2, Rose 0-2, Gay 0-1; Dominican Republic (7-18): Liz 2-4, Fortuna 2-2, Sosa 1-2, Feldeine 1-2, Ramon 1-3, Coronado 0-3, Baez 0-1, Martinez 0-1; TO-USA 16, Dominican Republic 26; BLKS- USA 8, Dominican Republic 1; STLS-USA 17, Dominican Republic 5.
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bench. Everybody was happy for one- another, everyone was cheering for one- another, and that’s what we are going to need to continue on this path.” Ten different U.S. players saw time
in the first quarter, but the USA was cold to start – shooting just 9-of-23 from the field (.391) in the first period. The USA forced seven Dominican turnovers, however, as seven players helped the USA to a 25-22 advantage. The USA’s icy shooting did not last.
The U.S. pounded the ball inside and attacked the rim to score 18 of its 31 second-quarter points in the paint to help heat up its shooting to 59.1 percent (13-22 FGs). Davis and Faried scored six apiece in the quarter. Allowing the Dominicans just 19 points, the USA headed into the halftime locker room with a 56-41 advantage. The USA reeled off six straight
points after Dominican Repubic scored to open the second half, and led 62-43. The USA closed the quarter with an 11-0 run to lead 81-52 at the final break. That run stretch into the fourth
quarter and totaled 22 unanswered points overall, earning the USA its largest run of the game. The USA’s broke into triple-digit territory with just under a minute remaining when Drummond finished an alley-oop dunk to make it
balanced. We haven't really shot the 3 as much as our three previous teams and it just worked out that way. I think part of it is once we started hitting a couple of 3s, the inside opened and our guys were very unselfish, what did we have, 25 assists and 10 turnovers? And as a result of that we got stuff in the paint. “We had good balance. We scored
14 points in the first quarter and then ended up with 95 for the game. We started to play a lot better; we had a 30-point quarter in the second quarter after having that slow start.” Again featuring a balanced scoring
attack, six players finished in double figures for the U.S. Harden scored 17 points, including 10 in the third quarter, and dished out five assists; Curry added 14 points while shooting 3-of-4 from 3-point; Davis finished with 12 points and six rebounds; Cousins and Irving, who also dished out six assists, scored 11 points apiece; and Faried added 10 points and eight rebounds. The USA was slow to start the
game, and for a second straight night was plagued by poor shooting – 6-of-19 (.316) – in the first 10 minutes. While its defense did hold Ukraine to the very same shooting performance (6-19 FGs, .316), the USA sent Ukraine to the line four times, where it shot a perfect 7-of-7 to help take a 19-14 lead at the first break. Also helping Ukraine to its early lead was a 16-10 rebounding advantage.
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