{"id":780891,"date":"2026-07-05T16:17:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/780891\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T16:17:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T16:17:18","slug":"team-usa-blows-out-australia-in-fiba-play-114-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/780891\/","title":{"rendered":"Team USA Blows Out Australia In FIBA Play, 114-65"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _174s0un6 _174s0un5 _1mt21p01\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/sports\/other\/top-duke-target-separating-himself-from-the-pack-at-fiba-u17-world-cup\/ar-AA26JOnL?cvid=6a45978472bd4b0db863b269e686bab3&amp;ocid=nl_dadk_a1_20171104_1&amp;apiversion=v2&amp;domshim=1&amp;noservercache=1&amp;noservertelemetry=1&amp;batchservertelemetry=1&amp;renderwebcomponents=1&amp;wcseo=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">J<\/a>oaquim Boumtje Boumtje and the U.S. U17 team continue to crush it in Turkey, this time with a 114-65 win over Australia in the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Although the U.S. ultimately rolled again, it wasn\u2019t as easy. Australia was down just 23-21 after the first quarter, before the U.S. built a 14-point lead at the half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Team USA blew the Aussies away after that, going up 81-45 after the third quarter, and rolling through the fourth quarter as well to reach the 49-point margin. The U.S. outscored the Aussies on turnovers 38-1, which gives you an idea of the different level of these two teams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Boumtje Boumtje had another impressive game, scoring 23 points on 9-16\/6-11, grabbed 15 rebounds, and also had 3 steals and a block.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The finals are Sunday against Serbia, and they\u2019ve obviously done well to date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Next week though, Boumtje Boumtje will be in Durham, and soon we\u2019ll get an idea of how well his FIBA success translates into college basketball. Watching him go up against Patrick Ngongba, Cameron Williams, and Drew Scharnowski is going to be very interesting indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joaquim Boumtje Boumtje and the U.S. U17 team continue to crush it in Turkey, this time with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780892,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,7432,85],"class_list":["post-780891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-main","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}