For a second-straight night,
Samuelson led all scorers, recording 17 points while shooting 4-of-7 from 3- point. Also reaching double-figures were Durr with 14 points and four assists and Anigwe with 10 points. Cox was the game’s best rebounder with eight boards to go with her seven points. “It feels good,” Durr said. “We came
out, we fought hard and we played our butts off, and we won by 48 points, so it was a great feeling.” Eleven U.S. players scored as the
USA tallied 16 assists on 32 made bas- kets. Two more players just barely missed double-digit scoring, including Ionescu with nine points, four steals and six rebounds and Ogunbowale with nine points and three steals. “As a coach, you can't be more
elated than unselfish basketball,” Phillips added. “The players did a great job of rewarding someone who had a blocked shot or a rebound. They made sure they found that teammate with the basket- ball.”
The USA not only was unselfish on
offense, it was stingy on defense, forcing 28 turnovers while allowing France one point in the fourth quarter, zero second- chance points overall and limiting its opponent to 27.5 percent shooting from the field. Meanwhile, the USA connected on 46.4 percent of its shots and recorded 42 points in the paint and 25 points off of turnovers. Twice the score was tied as France
matched Durr’s opening 3-pointer and a score from Samuelson, and the score- board read 5-5 at 7:26 in the first quarter. From there, a 10-0 U.S. run gave the Americans a 15-5 lead when Ionescu drove the length of the court and scored a layup at 4:42. Two times in the next few minutes France pulled within nine points of the USA, but after a 3-point play from Durr and a free throw from Anigwe, the USA led 24-11 at the first break.
Three U.S. 3-pointers, including
two from Samuelson helped the USA continue to improve its lead in the second quarter, and by the midway point, the scoreboard read 41-25 in the USA’s favor.
A 9-0 U.S. run by the Americans,
which included four points by Durr, three points from Anigwe and two from
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Asia Durr helped the U.S. win U16 gold in 2013 and in 2014 assisted the USA to gold at the U17 World Championship averaging 13.0 points and a team best 3.4 assists a game.
Ogunbowale, helped the USA capture a 62-39 lead headed into the fourth quarter. As seven U.S. scorers accounted for 26 points in the final period, the U.S. defense allowed France just one point – a made free throw at 9:21, and the USA sailed in for an 88-40 win.
USA 78, Mali 22 Recording 22 assists on its 29 made
baskets, the USA took advantage of its depth as it marched to a 78-22 victory against Mali. Three players reached dou- ble-figure scoring and 10 players put points on the board. “We definitely had some bright
spots, executed well on certain posses- sions and defensively strung together some good stretches,” said Phillips. “But over forty minutes we had our lapses -- 18 turnovers -- and much of it in my estimation was carelessness with the basketball.” Durr finished with 15 points;
Holmes had a 12-point, 11-rebound double-double; and Cox scored 10 points
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to go with her eight rebounds. Additionally, Anigwe, who had
nine points, shot 7-of-10 from the free throw line to tie the U.S. U17 women’s record for free throws attempted that was first set by Kaela Davis against South Korea in 2012. As a team, the USA tied its USA U17 women’s record for 3- pointers attempted with 23 shots from behind the arc – a mark it set against China on June 28. The USA jumped out to a 5-0 lead
and only continued to extend that mar- gin. Seven players helped the USA score 29 points in the first quarter to record the Americans’ highest-scoring period thus far in the tournament, and at the first break, the USA led 29-6. The USA’s largest run of the game, a
22-0 run, stretched from 4:18 in the first quarter, when Chou sank a 3-pointer, all the way until 8:40 in the second period, when Mali’s leading scorer Mariam Alou Coulibaly, who finished with nine points,
USA 88, France 40 June 29, 2014
Ogunbowale 20 4- 8 0- 0 3 00 9 Durr
Samuelson 24 6-12 1- 2 4 13 17 Cox
18 3- 4 0- 1 3 31 6 21 2- 9 3- 4 8 12 7
11 1- 3 0- 0 1 02 2 13 0- 3 0- 0 0 01 0 13 4- 5 1- 1 6 22 9 16 3- 3 2- 2 5 30 8
Holmes 17 1- 7 2- 3 4 20 4 Mulkey 14 1- 2 0- 0 2 00 2 Anigwe 12 2- 5 6- 8 3 02 10 Totals
200 32-69 18-24 45 16 14 88 FRA MIN FG FT R A PF PTS
Cammas 14 1- 4 0- 0 0 11 3 Boehrer 14 0- 4 0- 0 4 02 0 Duchet
Chartereau 18 5- 7 0- 0 0 00 13 Tadic
Alfonso 11 0- 1 0- 0 1 00 0 Dorby Muzet
19 2- 5 0- 0 2 31 4 20 3- 3 1- 2 6 22 7 11 0- 2 0- 0 4 00 0
17 1- 6 1- 2 1 02 4
Berkani 23 1- 8 0- 0 2 22 3 Bankole 23 1- 5 2- 2 3 12 5 Bienvenu 16 0- 4 0- 0 3 03 0 Djaldi-Tabdi 14 0- 2 1- 2 3 05 1 Totals
USA France
200 14-51 5- 8 32 9 20 40 24 17 21 26 -- 88
11 13 15 1 -- 40
3-PT FGs-USA (6-14): Samuelson 4-7, Ogunbowale 1-1, Durr 1-1, Wilson 0-2, Chou 0-2 Ionescu 0-1; France (7-24): Chartereau 3-3, Cammas 1-4, Berkani 1-4, Bankole 1-4, Muzet 1-2, Boehrer 0-3, Duchet 0- 2, Alfonso 0-1, Bienvenu 0-1. TO-USA 14, France 29; BLKS-USA 3, France 1; STLS-USA 15, France 5.
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MIN FG FT R A PF PTS 21 5- 8 3- 3 2 41 14
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