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Kelsey Plum and Courtney Williams playing scared and with them on the floor, game is 3 points. Bad Bluder moves. Stewie is playing defense on the perimeter and leaving the lane open for Brazil. She is covering a guard who is quick and it aint working. Get Stewie inside Brazil up 2 . terrible sloppy play. Plum scared out there. Shatori needs to be in with Mavunga. I think

finally- Bluder switched up and put Moriah on the best Brazil scorer- finally. Stewie with a huge block. Mo shutting down "Patty"

Bluder got smart- shatori in, Stewie with 20 pts LEAD FOR UA BACK TO 7. GREAT DEFENSE BY Moriah..... KIMBROUGH WALKER PLAYING GREAT TOO. The defense tightening up. Stewie and Mo looked tired. Better team defense with Reimer on bench. C Williams cant throw the ball in the ocean. Announcer called Moriah "a pretty savvy point guard" I'd say so !!!!

59-50 USA
 
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This game is all kinds of physical. They could have called five fouls on Brazil in the past two minutes.
 
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Stewie getting hammered down low. Finally called a foul. She's got 20 points.
 
After a shaky start to the 3rd quarter, Brazil only outscored USA by 1 point in the quarter.
 
I feel like USA is missing a spot up shooter. Several times MoJeff brought the ball down the floor and you could see her looking at the wings for shooters a la KML.

This game is super physical but most of these teams in the Pan Am games are their respected countries senior national teams. That makes a difference.
 
I feel like a foul should be called on every one of these layup attempts. Geez.
 
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Even though she does it all the time, I am always so impressed with how high Moriah gets on rebounds.
 
sarals24 said:
I feel like a foul should be called on every one of these layup attempts. Geez.
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USA could be playing 5 on 4 if the refs called some of these mugging going on in this game. The Brazilians should lost 3-4 players by now.
 
Pretty impressive that they are playing through it. It's seriously ugly.
 
Stewie just dragging the USA to victory. She's a tough kid.
 
Edit that...Steiwe and Moriah! Those two have been head and shoulders above the rest of the team.
 
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That Reimer basket should not have counted.

USA trying to give it away at the end, looks like they are going to pull it out. Coach Bluder has the good sense to leave Stewie and Mo in for the majority of the game.
 
A bit of a gift missed shot clock violation gives Taya Reimer the bucket, and the US the needed momentum to put the game away. I accept this gift gladly, because the refs' allowance of all that physicality was a gift to Brazil all game. ;)
 
Moriah and Breanna score 47 of USA's 75 points. Their points were scored in the flow of the game. Best two players on the court. Team could have used Tiffany Mitchell in this game and more strength in the front court.
 
Anyone else think the Pan Am team would crush the WUG team?

Much better backcourt for the Pan Am team.
 
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Brutal schedule for Team USA going forward. No rest for the weary-games tomorrow and the next day. Stewie and Moriah have to be exhausted after being beaten up for practically the entire game and getting pretty much no rest. I expect Bluder to seriously limit their minutes tomorrow against what appeared to be a very weak Dominican team (vs Puerto Rico earlier). God knows, they both deserve it, and probably need it, after their super efforts tonight against the Brazilian brawlers.
 
I will give Brazil credit.... they did have the better uniforms and warm-up jackets.
 
Entertaining game. Jefferson and Stewart were their usual phenomenal selves, which Team USA really needed because a lot of the others struggled. I was pretty impressed with Harper, she's obviously not getting the ball enough at Kentucky..

Really bummed that Tiff Mitchell has a sprained ankle. Hopefully she can play eventually. Coates battled hard on both ends.

I think Coates and Mavunga will eventually end up coming up big in this tournament. They are both players that thrive in a physical playing style..
 
Really fun game - but I agree that the USA team does not in this first game look very deep - the reserves for the most part really struggled - Harper is strong and physical which in that game was necessary, but her decision making was questionable on offense I think (and she doesn't seem to be getting the coaching at KY based on the few times I have watched them play.) I thought the USA bigs did quite well - they were being asked to guard strong, very experienced professionals with no help and they all got schooled including Stewart.

Thought it was a strange strategy from USA at the start of the second half to walk the ball up, having been playing faster for the first 20 minutes - and it cost them their lead - that and the strange offense they were playing - two high posts with no screens running off them - had no idea what they were doing!

This is not going to be an easy tournament for USA - college kids however good going up against senior national teams. Will not be surprised if USA does not win gold, but certainly am hoping for it.
 
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Entertaining game. Jefferson and Stewart were their usual phenomenal selves, which Team USA really needed because a lot of the others struggled. I was pretty impressed with Harper, she's obviously not getting the ball enough at Kentucky..

Really bummed that Tiff Mitchell has a sprained ankle. Hopefully she can play eventually. Coates battled hard on both ends.

I think Coates and Mavunga will eventually end up coming up big in this tournament. They are both players that thrive in a physical playing style..
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Coates was strong. I missed early part of game. Did not see Mavunga in there. Some USA players were getting bumped and not finishing their offensive moves. I think if they did they would get the foul calls.
 
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