Ahead of the upcoming Olympic Games, the U.S. men’s and women’s 3×3 national teams have selected players from the NBA and the WNBA as their goal of winning the gold medal. However, the early stages of the U.S. men’s and women’s 3×3 national teams are so precarious that even the FIBA is concerned.
The U.S. men’s and women’s 3×3 national teams have played two matches each, and thus have yet to win a single game. They are humiliatingly ranking at the bottom even in their scoring records.
The U.S. men’s 3×3 national team, which features NBA-turned-Zimmer Freddit, NCAA Princeton-turned-winning members Kareem Maddox and Cannon Berry, was definitely a gold medal candidate. The U.S. men’s 3×3 national team, which was expected to compete for gold with Serbia and Latvia, fell to the bottom with two consecutive losses to Serbia (14-22) and Poland (17-19).
The performance of the two matches was not good enough. Poland, which failed to display strong performance in the match against Serbia and struggled to participate in the Olympics as the eighth seed among the eight teams, suffered a setback due to its monotonous management of matches depending on individual skills. In addition, two-point shots with a 19 percent success rate of only four shots after attempting 21 outside shots that were close to randomness in two matches are also holding back the U.S. men’s 3×3 team.
The U.S. Women’s 3×3 team is also struggling. The U.S. Women’s 3×3 team joined the Olympic 3×3 team by Sierra Budik of the WNBA New York Liberty and Line Howard of the Atlanta Dream. In particular, Line Howard was the No. 1 player in the first round of the WNBA in 2022, winning the WNBA Rookie of the Year in 2022, and was selected for the WNBA All-Star in 2022 and 2023.
However, the U.S. women’s 3×3 team also fell to the bottom as it lost to Germany for two consecutive games. The U.S. women’s 3×3 team, which started the Olympics with a 13-17 loss to Germany, is still in shock, losing 17-20 to Azerbaijan, one of the weakest teams, which took place in the early morning of the 1st (Korea Standard Time).
The U.S. women’s 3×3 national team, which won the gold medal with Kelsey Plum at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, has not shown a proper pattern play in the two Olympic games. The U.S. women’s 3×3 national team is also hampered by the extreme two-point shooting success rate, which has only two successful attempts with 14 two-point shots in two games.
The U.S., where men’s and women’s 3×3 teams have not won a single game in four games due to relentless shots from outside and monotonous game management. Against this unexpected backdrop, U.S. fans are also posting complaints on social media, saying, “We need more NBA and WNBA players” and “3×3 is not a sport for the U.S.”
“The U.S. men’s and women’s 3×3 team is in trouble. The women’s 3×3 team has shown its lack of teamwork against Azerbaijan,” FIBA said on its official website. “Jimmy Freddy, the ace of the men’s 3×3 team, is not exerting any influence,” expressing concern over the situation facing the U.S. men’s and women’s 3×3 team.
To make matters worse, Jimmy Freddie, the ace of the U.S. men’s 3×3 national team, suffered a groin injury in the second half of the match against Poland and has to wait and see whether he will play in the next match.
2024 Paris Olympics 3×3 Men’s Basketball Qualifying Rankings – U.S. Has Least Score Of 8 Teams As well as Least Score
In the men’s and women’s 3×3 basketball preliminaries for the 2024 Paris Olympics, eight men’s and women’s teams will play in full leagues, and the top six teams will advance to the finals. The U.S. men’s and women’s 3×3 basketball teams will have five more chances to play. Of course, the remaining teams are not strong enough.
If there is no victory that changes the flow in the third game of the preliminary round immediately, there is no way that the U.S., the leading country of basketball, and the U.S., the first champion of women’s 3×3 basketball at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, will not be eliminated from the Olympic qualifying round.메이저사이트
The U.S. men’s 3×3 national team will face Lithuania, which has also lost two consecutive games, at 2:05 a.m. on the 2nd (Korea time), and the women’s 3×3 national team will try to win its first Olympic victory against Australia at 8 p.m. on the 1st (Korea time).