Hailey Van Lith delivered a message after the defending champion USA posted its third straight win with an additional time victory towards Canada in girls’s 3×3 basketball pool play on the Paris Olympics following three straight losses to begin the event.
“We’ve got a variety of tweets bookmarked on how we shouldn’t come again to the States,” she mentioned. “So we haven’t forgotten.”
Rhyne Howard’s 2-point shot in additional time lifted the U.S. to an 18-17 win over Canada after the People beat France 14-13 earlier Friday.
Van Lith made a 2-point shot with 22 seconds left to tie it at 16 and power additional time, the place the primary workforce to attain two factors wins.
Canada scored first in OT on a brief shot by Katherine Plouffe. Howard, who was 0 for five from lengthy vary in regulation, then drained the profitable basket.
“After that third loss we had a heart-to-heart as a workforce and we have been like ‘we didn’t come this far to lose,’” Dearica Hamby mentioned. “We weren’t the favorites so to say however we’re nonetheless USA basketball and gold is the usual.”
Hamby made a layup with 4 seconds remaining within the victory over France.
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The U.S. was up by three after a basket by Howard with simply greater than a minute to go. France acquired a layup from Myriam Djekoundade earlier than Marie Eve Paget’s 2-pointer tied it with 20 seconds remaining.
Van Lith then missed a shot, however the workforce acquired the ball again to arrange the game-winner.
Laetitia Guapo had an opportunity to offer France the win on the buzzer, however her 2-pointer was quick.
Hamby, Cierra Burdick and Van Lith had 4 factors every. Burdick additionally grabbed seven rebounds.
France acquired 5 factors from Guapo.
Sandra Ygueravide scored 10 factors and made a 2-pointer in additional time to push Spain previous Canada.
Michelle Plouffe made a basket adopted by a free throw to place Canada up 19-18 with 31 seconds remaining in regulation.
However Ygueravide made a 2-pointer seconds later to offer Canada the lead. Plouffe compelled additional time when she drove for a layup with to tie it at 20-20 with 15 seconds left.
Ygueravide made 4 2-pointers, in a recreation the place Spain made 6 of 12 makes an attempt.
Spain improved to 4-2 with the win and Canada, which acquired 11 factors and 6 rebounds from Plouffe, fell to 3-3.
Sonja Greinacher scored seven factors, capped by a basket with six seconds left that gave Germany a win over France and its fifth win in pool play.
Guapo made a basket earlier than a free throw by Hortense Limouzin tied it at 13-13 with 23 seconds to go.
Greinacher then swished a bounce shot to place Germany on prime. Paget had an opportunity to offer France the win on the buzzer, however her 2-pointer bounced off the rim.
Guapo had 4 factors and 5 rebounds for France, which dropped to 1-5 with its second lack of the day.
Tiffany Hayes had 11 factors and Alexandra Mollenhauer’s 2-pointer in additional time led Azerbaijan over China.
China led by 4 with 35 seconds left in regulation. Mollenhauer made a 2-pointer with 25 seconds to go earlier than Hayes hit one with 2 seconds left to ship it to additional time.
Mollenhauer had 9 factors. Her massive shot in additional time was her third 2-pointer of the sport.
Mingling Chen had eight factors for China, which fell to 2-4 with its second lack of the day.
Azerbaijan can be 2-4 in pool play.
Marie Reichert had seven factors as Germany topped China.
Chen made a basket for China with about three minutes left, tying it at 13. Germany then put collectively a 5-0 run that included three factors from Reichert.
Chen had six factors and 5 assists for China.
Marena Whittle had eight factors and Alex Wilson added seven for Australia.
Australia raced out to a 7-1 lead thanks to 2 early 2-pointers from Whittle. A 4-2 run by Azerbaijan lower the result in 12-8 with about 4 minutes to go.
However Australia scored the following three factors to pad the lead, and a free throw by Wilson ended it with two minutes remaining.
Azerbaijan acquired six factors and 5 rebounds from Hayes.
Ygueravide and Vega Gimeno had 9 factors every as Spain downed Australia.
Australia led by 4 early earlier than Spain scored the following seven factors, together with two 2-pointers from Gimeno, to take an 8-5 lead with 6½ minutes left.
Australia used a 5-0 run to tie it at 16 with three minutes remaining. Spain outscored Australia 5-1 after that, capped by a free throw from Gimeno, to finish it with 1:50 remaining.
Australia is 4-2 after a win and a loss Friday.