Wednesday, September 20, 2006
2006 FIBA World Championship for Women: day 9: . . . and exhale
Okay, USA (20 turnovers) is back on the case 90 - 56 over Lithuania (24 turnovers), sending the Lithuanians to what is going to be some really hot play: the 5-9 classification round with Spain (14 turnovers), France (10 turnovers) and the Czech Republic (16 turnovers.) Those teams were all losers today (day 9 results) ("Quarter-Finals") , creating the all too familiar semi-final matching of US (this time capital "us") versus Russia and Brazil versus Australia. Janeth (and that's Janeth dos Santos Arcain to the rest of you), Iziane (leftmost in the picture the caption said (doesn't look like her to me, but all of these pics, goodness), Alessandra (rightmost behind coach dude) and Helen can win this time (for a change) if they want to: no one will complain. Below, first, Spain's Amaya Valdemoro (21 points, 5 rebounds, 4 turnovers) passing around Russia's Maria Stepanova (14 points, 10 rebounds, 8 turnovers) today in Spain's loss; then, Team Brazil celebrating it's dispatching the Czechs to the classification round, oops.
Photo sources: Yahoo! News/AP Photo/ Andre Penner; Yahoo! News/AP Photo/Marcelo Hernandez; Yahoo! News/AP Photo/ Andre Penner
