Nekias Duncan and Steve Jones Jr. preview Saturday’s semifinal on the FIBA Girls’s Basketball World Cup and the way Staff USA must handle and take care of Spain’s expertise — plus why protection should cleared the path for the purple, white and blue. Try the complete dialog on “The Dunker Spot and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you pay attention.
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What intrigues you essentially the most about this matchup with Spain?
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I imply, it is gonna be an enchanting contest ‘trigger this is the factor about Spain, proper?
Staff USA has established, hey, we’ll get into the submit.
We really feel comfy with this.
Spain has Megan Deleu.
Spain has Alafam.
So are we gonna keep at house in these post-ups, and are you gonna have the ability to have the identical ingredient of success?
They’ve performed ver- very nicely.
Between Martin, Meg, and Alafam, Maria Con, it has been loads of belongings you gotta take care of, with this workforce.
There’s been a confidence and a consolation they’ve showcased.
So are you gonna have the identical benefits offensively?
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Are you gonna have the ability to discover the identical gaps?
Are you gonna have the identical understanding of what you wanna assault?
Will the teachings you’ve got discovered into this recreation repay on this recreation?
Does Spain- Mm-hmm Spain, Spain’s presents a problem.
Like, you are gonna have to attain the basketball in opposition to them, as a result of for those who enable this to kinda be a backwards and forwards kind of tennis match, you get deep within the water, that is, there is a confidence this workforce performs with.
There is a consolation this team- Mm-hmm this workforce performs with.
They are not afraid to maneuver the ball.
They are not afraid to go inside.
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They are not afraid to shoot threes.
So how are you going to handle that, I believe is the largest factor when this explicit matchup.
what I imply?
They’ve measurement, they’ve size.
You have seen this earlier than.
Are you able to apply the belongings you’ve discovered to this one to get to the ultimate?
Is form of my place to begin.
What do you assume, Caris?
No, like I believe for me it begins with the protection for Staff USA, extra of a structural query for me, ‘trigger I’ve 4 in my notes.
However on the high of the record I actually have, is that this a recreation Staff USA needs to lean into their unders and late switching?
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As a result of Spain will feed the block, however they could have the personnel to take care of it.
I wanna see how aggressive they’re gonna be in choose and roll.
Like, what’s, what do they land on to start out?
‘Trigger as you already talked about, Spain keen to shoot from deep.
Iana Martin has simply been incredible all through this complete event.
And like a number of the off the dribble juice she has showcased all through this run has been loads of enjoyable, has been rather a lot, has been very efficient.
And so if you’re making an attempt to duck underneath, and he or she’s not afraid to drag that.
And for those who go into any of the rescreening stuff, she will be able to get downhill in Spain, like much like Staff USA, superb spacing group.
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Like past the three-point capturing, I believe they’re fourth in three-point share heading into the weekend.
However past the three-point capturing, they area so extremely nicely.
They arrange their actions nicely.
After which for those who attempt to overload any form of approach, they do not thoughts screening off the ball.
Superb slicing group.
Maria Kanda has hit groups all through this complete event, both as a join passer or simply getting busy on cuts herself.
Each of the bigs superb at respacing, flashing to the center, establishing excessive lows.
Staff USA has to determine what they need to do initially.
Are we simply switching this and flattening issues out to take away a few of that slicing and motion, or are we going extra conventional or extra aggressive?
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And if it’s the latter, how good is the off-ball protection gonna be?
‘Trigger once more, they simply gained by what, 52.
So there’s solely a lot to nitpick.
However even you hit on like, hey, after they did get aggressive, there have been some shaky possessions on the again finish.
Towards Spain, they’re slicing, they’re relocating.
As much as them to make the photographs from there, however like conceptually and process-wise, oh, we all know what the gaps are and we’re gonna hit them in a well timed trend.
So in the event that they do ramp it up, off-ball protection must be sound on this one.
So I, I’m fascinated with Staff USA’s protection heading into this matchup in opposition to Spain.
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I imply it is fascinating as a result of the protection in all probability feels just like the factor they, Staff USA must be the, essentially the most assured about so far as that being their base- Mm-hmm and we really feel like we are able to guard you in numerous methods.
And so I do not know in the event that they’re gonna have the ability to velocity them up.
I do not know if it, they’re gonna have, discover a consolation within the half court docket.
However they’re gonna have to ascertain what they need to do early on this recreation or else this can be much like Italy
