As mentioned, Italy's star is their point guard Matilde Villa, a player who definitely has WNBA attention for the next draft as she is one of the more effective young slashing guards in Europe in some time. She was one of a raft of guards that Morgan Valley followed in the leadup to Ines eventually signing. Her twin sister Eleonora comes off the bench as she will head to Washington State after this tournament. Besides Ronchi having an excellent tournament at small forward, Vittoria Blasigh is also a player who could find her way into 2024 WNBA draft consideration with another good club season.Game preview: Portugal vs Italy ( a tough game for the Portuguese young women )!
This is for FIFTH PLACE!! PPG Portugal 66.3 Italy 78.2!!! Portugal is a trace
better on three point shooting , a trace ahead on assists, a little better on not
commiting fouls. ITALY a slim lead in rebounds 26 to 25 and a good lead
on Free throws 76.6 to 67.3. Portugal with a decided advantage on STEALS
12.8 to 9.7 steals per game. It's the ppg that is concerning and ITALY has
the #4 and #5 players in the whole tournament in EFFICIENCY Matilde Villa
#6 who is #4 and Sara Ronchi who is # 5 in the tournment in effiency. Villa
scores 24.5 ppg and Rochi 16. 7 ppg. They are better two point shooting
than three point shooting. PORTUGAL needs one of their GOOD GAMES to
win thing one. HIT THOSE FREE THROWS!, GET THOSE STEALS! NO SLOPPINESS!
GO TEAM everyone needs to contribute. GO INES! GO HUSKY! GO Portugal
The Game is 8:30 AM on SUNDAY morning. VOTE FOR INES in the MVP Polling.
The VOTE should help her with any possible second team ALL TOURNAMENT
position. She is not in the running for the overall MVP.. but VOTE anyway for
the SECOND TEAM ALL TOURNAMENT possibility. IF PORTUGAL wins ( or
even it they lose, but INES has a good game ) this is a possiblity, VOTE!!