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Napheesa Collier participating in 3x3 National Championships

Oregon is being represented by Boley, Gildon, Hebard, and Ionescu. That should be another good team. Hebard/Anigwe, Boley/Collier, Gildon/Ogunbowale , and Ionescu/Durr matchups
 
Reypl21 said:
Oregon is being represented by Boley, Gildon, Hebard, and Ionescu. That should be another good team. Hebard/Anigwe, Boley/Collier, Gildon/Ogunbowale , and Ionescu/Durr matchups
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Gildon isn't a good matchup for Ogunbowale AT ALL :confused:
 
Reypl21 said:
I agree. Collier is going to run circles around Boley too. If the two teams meet.
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I'm confused on the invitation of Gildon. Why not Sabally who is far more versatile and can defend mutltiple positions?
 
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SCspur said:
I'm confused on the invitation of Gildon. Why not Sabally who is far more versatile and can defend mutltiple positions?
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I thought that too, but I remembered she's from Germany and plays for them. Their other starting guard Corzola (?) plays for Spain. So I guess that's the best they could do.
 
Reypl21 said:
I agree. Collier is going to run circles around Boley too. If the two teams meet.
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Maybe, but Oregon did beat Napheesa's team 22-17 this morning. I can't find any box score, however.
 
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jonson said:
Maybe, but Oregon did beat Napheesa's team 22-17 this morning. I can't find any box score, however.
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So are they out now? Or is today just some scrimmage type of games today?
 
Reypl21 said:
So are they out now? Or is today just some scrimmage type of games today?
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It's called the "preliminary round. There's a schedule with result at the link above.
 
Collier's team won their other 4 games.

Only Ionescu's went undefeated in the prelims. Hard to beat her.

Their teams are on opposite sides in the quarters.

Championship game at 3:20 eastern online.
 
Sluconn Husky said:
Collier's team won their other 4 games.

Only Ionescu's went undefeated in the prelims. Hard to beat her.

Their teams are on opposite sides in the quarters.

Championship game at 3:20 eastern online.
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Ionescu is playing with her own teammates from OU. A very big advantage. Especially when one of then is Ruthy Hebbard. Just out of curiosity, is there some form of coaching being done during the games and if so, do we know who the coaches are?
 
eebmg said:
Ionescu is playing with her own teammates from OU. A very big advantage. Especially when one of then is Ruthy Hebbard. Just out of curiosity, is there some form of coaching being done during the games and if so, do we know who the coaches are?
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There's a huge advantage when Hebard travels every possession. To my knowledge, I don't believe there's coaching. I know Kara Lawson coached the under 18 team last year because they kept winning silver instead of gold. She coached Williams of the 2018 class and they finally won gold again.
 
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Sluconn Husky said:
Collier's team won their other 4 games.

Only Ionescu's went undefeated in the prelims. Hard to beat her.

Their teams are on opposite sides in the quarters.

Championship game at 3:20 eastern online.
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When I saw on twitter that Oregon went undefeated I was curious if they played. Colliers team was dubbed a "Super Team" but Ionescu is tough and Hebard knows how to play against Anigwe as they are PAC12 foes. Having team chemistry is key. Should be some great games today.
 
Napheesa's team (N.A.A.K. -- first letter of the players's first name) advanced to the semi-finals with a 21-7 win over the Washington Huskies. I'm thinking the semi-final games are over or close to being over. The USABB site is very slow in updating scores. I expect N.A.A.K to play the OU team in the finals.
 
bbballfan23 said:
They lost in the semis.
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Indeed they did lose, 21-19. The team of Napheesa, Asia Durr, Arike O and Kristine Anigwe lost to a team consisting of Danika Dale (Liberty), Kristen McCarthy and Shaqwedia Wallace (Temple) and Veshaundra Young (Martin Methodist). Interesting.
 
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From the final on Insta, both teams were not impressive and SI couldn't hit the side of a barn.
 
wallman said:
From the final on Insta, both teams were not impressive and SI couldn't hit the side of a barn.
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Apparently the selection committee is deciding what to do. They planned on Pheesa’s team winning and heading to the Philippines in early June to represent USA. This throws a little wrench in that.
 
bbballfan23 said:
Apparently the selection committee is deciding what to do. They planned on Pheesa’s team winning and heading to the Philippines in early June to represent USA. This throws a little wrench in that.
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I don't know how the final selection works, but it seems problematic to choose a 2-loss team over one that went undefeated throughout the tournament, beat Pheesa's team, and includes the tournament most valuable player (Ionescu), who couldn't buy a basket in the final (except the last one), but had 8 rebounds+. When you add Hebard defending, rebounding, and scoring inside, Boley shooting 3's, and Gildon being a solid contributor it's not a bad lineup for this kind of competition.
 
jonson said:
I don't know how the final selection works, but it seems problematic to choose a 2-loss team over one that went undefeated throughout the tournament, beat Pheesa's team, and includes the tournament most valuable player (Ionescu), who couldn't buy a basket in the final (except the last one), but had 8 rebounds+. When you add Hebard defending, rebounding, and scoring inside, Boley shooting 3's, and Gildon being a solid contributor it's not a bad lineup for this kind of competition.
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Agreed, plus they are comfortable with each other and have chemistry. Clearly Pheesa’s team did not. However, I wouldn’t be shocked for them to drop 1 or 2 of the Oregon girls (SI & RH) are safe obviously but adding a very unselfish Pheesa with them would be very interesting. From the sounds of it. Durr & Arike didn’t defend at all. Heard Pheesa did well.
 
Twitter blew up when this was announced that Napheesa was on the "Super Team" and they should win easily. One high profile women's poster on twitter said to "why bother and book this teams tickets to the Philippines"

Its why they play the games. Its just one quarter and anything can happen. For me (without seeing the games) I wonder how the team played together.
 
bbballfan23 said:
Agreed, plus they are comfortable with each other and have chemistry. Clearly Pheesa’s team did not. However, I wouldn’t be shocked for them to drop 1 or 2 of the Oregon girls (SI & RH) are safe obviously but adding a very unselfish Pheesa with them would be very interesting. From the sounds of it. Durr & Arike didn’t defend at all. Heard Pheesa did well.
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I didn't know that was possible. Pheesa would be great add--probably, I would imagine, for Gildon. Hebard is very good, and getting better, but Pheesa is, well, Pheesa, and they would be a very tough matchup inside. I'd keep Boley since she's money from long range.
 
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