The US girls’s basketball workforce stays probably the most unstoppable forces in worldwide competitors.
Thanks to a different dominant exhibiting on Friday in an 85-64 win over Australia, it punched its ticket for an eighth consecutive Olympic last and an opportunity to win its eighth straight gold medal.
Friday’s win was additionally its sixtieth in a row in Olympic competitors. The workforce has not misplaced a sport because the 1992 semifinals to the Unified Group. Actually, it has misplaced simply three Olympic competitions because the 1976 Video games.
The U.S. will play for gold on Sunday towards France.
It’s a staggering run of dominance that’s almost unequalled in worldwide workforce sports activities.
Friday’s sport was a clinic in chemistry, passing and ball motion. The American workforce tallied 31 assists, almost doubling the 16 that Australia managed. That features an help on 27 of their first 28 baskets. Three American starters — Breanna Stewart, Chelsea Grey and Jackie Younger — had 5 assists individually, whereas no person on the Australian workforce had greater than three.
A’ja Wilson, who completed the sport with 10 factors and a team-leading eight rebounds, commented on the workforce’s unselfishness.
“I feel we’re transferring the ball actually, very well. I do not assume I’ve ever been on a workforce that may transfer the ball like this,” Wilson stated through ESPN. “We’re all the time on the lookout for good shot to nice shot. We preach it, however typically we do not all the time uphold it on some groups. However I really feel like this workforce, we’re looking for one of the best shot on the ground, and I do not assume I’ve ever been on a workforce that is like that.”
Contemplating a number of the groups Wilson has performed on, together with the reigning WNBA champion Las Vegas Aces, that’s fairly a testomony to this workforce’s dedication.
The US girls’s basketball workforce has medaled in each competitors it has participated in (it didn’t compete within the 1980 Video games as a part of an American boycott), claiming 9 gold medals, a silver (1976) and a bronze (1992). It’s assured at the very least a silver within the 2024 Video games and an opportunity to say its tenth general gold.
