Puerto Rico split a pair of games with the Netherlands, losing the first 76-70 and winning the second 67-57. They then beat club team CTO Amsterdam 73-68.
Originally Posted by Fedfan
With big caliber Sandrine Gruda back to action France triumphed over Poland in the third game 88-55 (38-26).
http://www.ffbb.com/_actu/page_m.php...p=actu&id=8600
CANADA NT FINALISTS for the OQ:
Natalie Achonwa Forward 6-3 Guelph, ON University of Notre Dame (NCAA)
Chelsea Aubry Forward 6-2 Kitchener, ON Bendigo Spirit (Australia)
Miranda Ayim Forward 6-3 London, ON Istanbul University (Turkey)
Teresa Gabriele Guard 5-5 Mission, BC Training in Canada
Lizanne Murphy Forward 6-1 Beaconsfield, QC Tarbes (France)
Krista Phillips Forward 6-6 Saskatoon, SK Dandenong (Australia)
Courtnay Pilypaitis Guard 6-1 Orleans, ON VICI Kaunas (Lithuania)
Michelle Plouffe Forward 6-4 Edmonton, AB University of Utah (NCAA)
Kim Smith Forward 6-1 Mission, BC Training in Canada/USA
Alisha Tatham Guard 5-11 Brampton, ON Training in Canada
Tamara Tatham Forward 6-1 Brampton, ON Halles (Germany)
Shona Thorburn Guard 5-10 Hamilton, ON Girona (Spain)
TEAM – ALTERNATES:
Janelle Bekkering Guard 5-11 Taber, AB Lekdetec (Holland)
Krysten Boogaard Forward 6-5 Regina, SK Nice (France)
Megan Pinske Guard 5-9 Coquitlam, B.C Saarlouis (Germany)
Kendel Ross Forward 6-1 Sarnia, ON Training in USA
http://www.basketball.ca/canadian-wo...ifier--p150757
Thought Kendel Ross could make the finalists team, she's a good scorer and has international experience, another missing from previous NT is 6-1 F Kalisha Keane who was member of WNBA's San Antonio Silver Stars and has later been waived.
A tune-up tournament will take place in China featuring Angola, Australia, New Zealand and China that is slated for June 8-15.
Draft Wishlist:
PG Michael Carter-Williams / 21 yrs. old / 6'5
PF Livio Jean-Charles / 19 yrs. old / 6'9
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South Korea on a limited budget held three scrimmages with Japan's WJBL team, Chanson Cosmetics. The Koreans lack the competitive scrimmages to compete. As if that were not enough, injuries on several players are still nagging.
Draft Wishlist:
PG Michael Carter-Williams / 21 yrs. old / 6'5
PF Livio Jean-Charles / 19 yrs. old / 6'9
Sacramento Kings 2013-14: THY KINGDOM COME
HERE WE STAY UNTIL THE COWBELLS COME HOME
Japan has trimmed the roster to 15 players.
Ryoko Yano
Kumiko Yamada
Rika Tanaka
Yuko Oga
Emi Kudeken
Nozomi Amatsu
Saori Fujiyoshi
Arisa Fujiwara
Asami Yoshida
Maya Kawahara
Kumiko Oba
Maki Takada
Chi Kibayashi
Yuka Mamiya
Megumi Shinohara
A rather young team as Yano and Yamada are the only two women who are aged 30 above. Both are 33.
Draft Wishlist:
PG Michael Carter-Williams / 21 yrs. old / 6'5
PF Livio Jean-Charles / 19 yrs. old / 6'9
Sacramento Kings 2013-14: THY KINGDOM COME
HERE WE STAY UNTIL THE COWBELLS COME HOME
Despite recent losses in exhibition games Turkish coach looks confident with his team, headed to the OQT.
Next weekend Turkey will continue its preparation participating to the Karlovy Vary tournament, with other OQT candidate host team CZ, and with already qualified Australia.
http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fc/new...1856/arti.html
http://www.basketball.net.au/index.p...ash=009ffab347
Czechs lose to Hungary 71-70 and Australia over Turkey 57-49:
http://www.cbf.cz/ostatni/kratke-zpr...-koncovce.html
Argentina took two of three from Bulgaria:
http://www.cabb.com.ar/noticia_ficha.php?id=5819
http://www.cabb.com.ar/noticia_ficha.php?id=5826
Angola lost 66-46 to an "Emerging Opals" Australian team in a tournament in China. New Zealand and China are the other participating teams.
http://www.portalangop.co.ao/motix/p...720cd4296.html
Puerto Rico NT named.
http://www.latinbasket.com/Puerto-Ri...274058&Women=1
The team will first play Centrobasket tournament and then move to Turkey for the OQT.
Canada loses to Great Britain 70-57 in the first exhibition game with its final roster.
Canadians led 28-24 at halftime.
Natalie Stafford (16), Jo Leedham (15) and Temi Fagbenle (11) scored in double digits for GB.
Kim Smith (19) of Canada was the game's high scorer, while Natalie Achonwa had 15pts+8reb.
http://www.basketball.ca/canadian-wo...ritain-p150868
Czechs beat Turkey 64-34. It was 51-16 after three quarters:
http://www.cbf.cz/ostatni/kratke-zpr...ly-turkyn.html
Hungary upset Australia 85-76 in the other game.
New Zealand lost 79-73 to China and 72-64 to the Emerging Opals:
http://www.basketball.org.nz/news/fl...ns-push-china/
http://www.basketball.org.nz/tall-fe...lls-out-ferns/
Croatia beat the Netherlands 67-57:
http://www.hks-cbf.hr/main.asp?dir=news&newsid=44485
In the last day of Karlovy Vary tournament Turkey beat Hungary 68-65 prevailing just in the final minutes in a very close game.
Hot shooting by Nevin Nevlin for the winners with 22 pts (8/10 FG and 6/6FT).
Box score here.
Australia-Czech Republic 67-48, with a great defense by the Opals that caused the home team commit a lot of errors in attack. But CZ looked just the shadow of the fine 2010 World's championships team.
http://www.fibalivestats.com/matches...98U3V2b5Jh6UY/
Tournament ranking: 1) Hungary 2) Australia 3) CZ 4) Turkey.
Katalin Honti of Hungary named MVP.
Croatia beat Argentina 72-54 in the first of two friendlies played in Dubrovnik.
http://www.cabb.com.ar/noticia_ficha.php?id=5841
Canada defeats Great Britain 63-50 in their second game, tying the series 1-1.
http://www.basketball.ca/canada-defe...arter--p150874
New Zealand 68-58 Angola:
http://www.basketball.org.nz/news/fe...-bound-angola/
Nozomi Amatsu's real name is Zhao Xi, just naturalized from China. See:
http://london2012.fiba.com/pages/eng...9/profile.html
FIBA, Tianjin is a Chinese city, not Japanese city. (Stuff nobody cares about: "Amatsu" is the Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese characters for "Tianjin", and it's not unusual for Chinese people who get naturalized in Japan to adapt their hometown in China as their surname. After all, Japanese surnames are all supposed to be places of their origins. "Nozomi" is the Japanese pronunciation of her given name "Xi".)
This is Japan Women's NT 2nd attempt at recruiting Chinese players in 2 years, after the 1st attempt failed with Risa Kawamura a.k.a. Li Shasha in 2010. Kawamura/Li did well at the team's tour before the 2010 World Championship but later was disqualified by FIBA after it was discovered that she represented China in some competition that I can't remember off the top of my head. Good luck this time. (Edit: Turns out Kawamura represented China as a 19-year-old, of course back then there was no way she could have been called Kawamura, which is a Japanese name. FIBA is funny, but not completely useless, I guess. http://www.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/pla...men/index.html )
Last edited by sinobball; 06-12-2012 at 01:53 AM.
aim low, score high
Third victory of Croatia over Argentina 60-47 in as many friendlies played in Dubrovnik.
Now Argentinian team is heading Ankara where will play Turkey, Korea and Great Britain in the weekend.
http://www.cabb.com.ar/noticia_ficha.php?id=5847
Four teams headed to the OQT are competing in a tournament played in France.
Day1, Canada beat Croatia 66-49 and France bested Czech Republic 74-57.
http://lovewomensbasketball.com/2012...ins-in-france/
In the second leg of the 4-nation tourney in China, NZ lost to China 73-75 (thanks to homecooking refs), revenged the loss against Australia "B" by winning 67-64, and fell to Angola in the last game 64-76. They'll play 2 more games in China against China "B" team on the 17th and 18th before flying to Turkey.
In the 4-nation tourney in Turkey, Turkey beat Argentina 79-75 while Great Britain destroyed Korea 113-86.
aim low, score high
In Day2 of the French exhibition tournament, Canada edged Czech Republic 66-64 with a strong second half and France defeated Croatia 73-69 in hard fought game. Unbeaten Canada and France will meet tomorrow.
http://www.basketball.ca/canada-beat...-66-64-p150930
http://www.ffbb.com/_actu/page_m.php...p=actu&id=8633
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