Dont Tase Me Bro said:

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The defense was bad. The offense was terrible. Really makes you appreciate Blair's offense. Carter started to play reckless towards the end. It could have been because nobody wanted to step up and take a shot. Brazil has older, more experienced players that have been in the WNBA. Still think it's a bad coaching job by Vic and Coale.

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Don't blame Sherry Coale she's in OK
the coaches were

Suzy Merchant
POS: Head Coach
Team: Michigan State University

Felisha Legette-Jack
POS: Assistant Coach
Team: University at Buffalo


Vic Schaefer
POS: Assistant Coach
Team: Mississippi State University

I think this was Brazil's national team. Their leading scorer is 27 years old, and the other 3 players who scored in double figures are 24, 28 and 31. We sent out a bunch of mostly college juniors and sophomores to play their 5th game in 5 days. It was tied when Carter went out in the 4th quarter to get a rest and that is when they got their lead. Carter scored 14 in the second half. To me the key stat was the US post players Mompremier and Alarie missed 15 of their 23 shots, and most of the misses were from inside 2 feet.

Mompremier was amazing last night, but she wasn't making those same shots tonight. I loved watching her play. I honestly don't remember whether or not the Olympics allows such blatant rough play. That was pretty sorry basketball played by the South American teams.

I know this sounds like whining - but how is that a fair playing field? They were literally walking all over us. And those refs were pathetic

In the United States we call it " home cooking"

I personally think there is alot of politics in Pan Am games.

The superpower is obliged to play all 7 or 8 or 9 including official scorer of the opposing team.

In all honesty, I watched the USA U19 games and those were very physical as well. Yet they still managed to win gold. I think the coaching was very suspect all week. I'm very surprised at Vic.

http://www.espn.com/espnw/sports/article/27364743/us-women-fall-brazil-pan-hoops-finale

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The U.S. has not won a gold medal in men's or women's basketball at the Pan American Games since 2007.

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It's not as big a deal as the Olympics so we're not sending the best. They added 3 x 3 this year and the women and men both won gold, with ionescu and Hebard from Oregon playing with Nelson-Ododa and Williams from
UConn.

I strongly agree the coaches were very apathetic in the 3 games I watched. I didn't get to watch the game last night, but I was not impressed by the USA coaching staff (including Vic). The officials seemed to call some really suspect cheap fouls and let a lot of the more physical or aggressive fouls go uncalled.

Nice to see Carter mentioned in the write for yesterday's game, but she often looked uninspired in the three games I saw. This might also be attributed to coaching or maybe she wasn't full speed, I don't know. I sure hope she is ready to go when Aggie basketball starts up! Gig 'em!