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Message: [QUOTE="Plebe, post: 3228702, member: 6927"] The men's team went 2-3 in pool play and barely qualified for the semifinals. To be fair, they were selected from the outer periphery of pro basketball, G league and the like. One of the players played D-II in college. Kareem Maddox of the US men's team paid tribute to the 3x3 women's team: [INDENT]"Look, I’m glad we didn’t have to play them in the championship because they are tough," said [B]Kareem Maddox [/B](Princeton/Los Angeles, Calif.). "We were able to see a lot of their games and they’re just hard-nosed, great basketball players. That group right there for us was an inspiration because they showed us the right way to play 3x3 and that’s something we had to come together and learn very quickly, so we knew it was possible because we just watched them do it. For both teams to take the inaugural 3x3 tournament at a Pan American Games is incredibly special and we couldn’t have asked to do that with a kinder, more impressive group of women than those four."[/INDENT] [/QUOTE]