USA U18 in action today in FIBA Championship games

[Carnac]

Damn! CW missing FTs!

Jitters, she'll settle down.

 

[MilfordHusky]

Suarez just ran by the USA defense for a layup. Need more effort/speed.

 

[MilfordHusky]

Legend trying to take over the game but everything is up hill. No good screens, no hard cuts to the basket. Everything appears forced, unsure one on one not team. Prince still the only one playing well.

Prince showed me some skills in the Jordan Brand game.

 

[Mdoggie]

Damn! CW missing FTs!

Crazy isn't it? I once saw a pro player miss a FT. Ridiculous.

 

[Alydar]

#10 is getting a little chippy with Christyn. She's got one hand on CW's waist, and swatting at the ball with the other one, and the refs aren't calling it.

I thought they were bumping her pretty hard early in the game as she brought the ball up. But then it's not the sharpest picture.

I'm a Walz fan but this game is looking a lot like his Louisville games .... lots of fouls, lots of disruption and ragged looking.

 

[MilfordHusky]

Nice defensive rebound by CW. She pushed the ball up court and hit the back rim from 30' at the buzzer.

 

[MilfordHusky]

Nice shot from Liv just inside the arc. 2 points.

 

[CocoHusky]

I like what I see of blackwell so far. Fair defensive technique, really fluid athletic movement and shot, adequate handles.

 

[Kaizen]

Black screen? (it back now)

 

[Yukon]

My live feed just cut out?!?

 

[MilfordHusky]

Feed is back. For now.

 

[HuskyFan1125]

I like how ONO goes after the ball for rebounds.

 

[CocoHusky]

The rotations out of this 1 2 2 zone are HS JV BAD!

 

[HuskyFan1125]

Anyone else notice how some players run to the same spots down the floor. Its like they are not talking to each other with who has who and where they should be going. I have noticed 3x now. Especially when #13 and #8 are on the floor together

 

[Charliebball]

just heard my first air horn of the game..............super!!!!

 

[MilfordHusky]

Argentina shooting 50% on FTs. USA shooting 42% on FTs. Where is Azzi Fudd??

 

[Alydar]

There's no running box score so I'll guess that there have been 70 fouls called

 

[Carnac]

Lots of missed ft's, point blank layups and put backs. SMH. Team USA should have had at least 95 points, but...……………......I'll take it.

A tip o' the cap to UConnCat. She called it. She said team USA would win by 30-40 points, they did!!

 

[Carnac]

Black screen? (it back now)

Technical difficulties. Everybody had a black screen including me. I thought it was just me. I rebooted twice.

 

[Carnac]

There's no running box score so I'll guess that there have been 70 fouls called

I hope this game was not an omen as far as what we can expect from the referees.

 

[LasVegasYank]

Haven't see this many missed free throws since high school.

Williams never got into rhythm (missed four FTs ) until late in the game, was OK rebounding and passing. ONO need a lot of work on her D, looked indecisive, wass out of position a lot, didn't move her feet well but did look OK on offense and her rebounding was OK.

Prince was, by far, the best player in the game. Moves great, defends, nice shot.

Sloppy game. Hope they pick it up for the next one.

 

[Carnac]

In other group A action today, Puerto Rico 74 - Chile 69

 

[Orangutan]

There's no running box score so I'll guess that there have been 70 fouls called

There were a mere 52.

To go with 57 combined turnovers.

USA v Argentina boxscore - FIBA U18 Women's Americas Championship 2018 - 1 August - FIBA.basketball

 

[Carnac]

There were a mere 52.

To go with 57 combined turnovers.

USA v Argentina boxscore - FIBA U18 Women's Americas Championship 2018 - 1 August - FIBA.basketball

Team USA had an edge in all of the positive areas, while Argentina led in the negative ones, i.e., turn overs and personal fouls. They were just as bad from the stripe as we were. I'd like to think tomorrow we'll see a more relaxed game with better execution and better free throw shooting.

 

[UConnCat]

USA should have won that game by 60. That's a really bad Argentina team.

Team USA looked disjointed from the opening tip. They look like a team that has been together for little more than a week. The U17 team had more time together, a bunch of scrimmages and a 3-game tournament before its competition. We should keep that in mind.