Team USA U19 Beats Canada

[tornado]

In a matchup people thought would be closer, the US faced Canada in New Zealand at the U19 World Championships QUARTERFINALS...

Team USA won 93-73, in surprisingly easy fashion..as the US scorched the nets from 3-pt range, 14-26..
Seth Curry was 4-5 from 3-pt, as was Gordon Hayward.
Hayward had 20 pts to lead th US squad.

http://www.newzealand2009.fiba.com/pages/eng/fe/09/u19men/p/gid/A/grid/52/rid/6977/game.html

The US now plays Croatia in the semis (Saturday) with a potential matchup with unbeaten Australia in the finals (Sunday).

[tornado]

US U19 team moves to the title game vs. Greece who knocked off undefeated Australia...
as the US nips Croatia 81-77, Gordon Hayward starring with 15 pts, 8 rebs.
Again, the US shot poorly from 3-pt range (28%) while the Euro guys hit 41%.
When will the people selecting the team take shooting into consideration, have they not seen this coming??

[FutureBrave2013]

US U19 team moves to the title game vs. Greece who knocked off undefeated Australia...
as the US nips Croatia 81-77, Gordon Hayward starring with 15 pts, 8 rebs.
Again, the US shot poorly from 3-pt range (28%) while the Euro guys hit 41%.
When will the people selecting the team take shooting into consideration, have they not seen this coming??

It was a bad shooting night. The US shot over 50% from deep the game before.

[tornado]

It was a bad shooting night. The US shot over 50% from deep the game before.

but look at the whole picture..
in 8 games, many against vastly inferior competition (Syria, Kazakhstan, Egypt, etc)....we send the best U19 players we have and they shoot....
74-209 over those 8 games...

that's 35%.....good but NOT great...and it isn't just over a short streak.....it is over 8 games...over 200 attempts.....35%

that's actually just about the same as the overall NCAA average at the D-I level....
which includes a whole lot of pretty mediocre and bad shooters...

so how come if we pick the best of the best, we can't come up with a better group of shooters than can hit 35% from 3-pt range?

Just for the heck of it, here's what the Croats shot in their 8 games...
73/201 = 36.3%
so the Croatian team is shooting better...and I don't have time, but I'll be a whole lot of other teams are, too!
I just think going all the way back to the Olympic Gold Medal loss by John Thompson's squad in 1988, they send athletes but not shooters.

[SFP]

I agree with T! Even the Olympic team was missing a dead eye 3 point shooter from their roster. There was Kobe but as good as he is he's still known for other parts of his game then a 3 point shooter and that goes for Carmelo also.

[tornado]

The U19 World Championships are over, the USA wins Gold Medal
USA beats Greece 88-80

http://www.newzealand2009.fiba.com/pages/eng/fe/09/u19men/p/gid/A/grid/62/rid/6982/game.html

Canada loses the Bronze Medal game to Croatia 87-81, the two SLU recruits..
Christian Salecich had 8 pts, no reb. Cody Ellis had 9 pts, 6 reb.

[FutureBrave2013]

Is three guys (Hayward, Thompson, and Gibbs) who shot over 40% from three point land last year and guys generally known as good shooters like Mack and Curry not enough?

The olympic as well as this team did something right being that they won every game.