A’ja Wilson, Breanna Stewart lead Team USA past Japan

Yahoo Sports’ Isis ‘Ice’ Young recaps the Americans’ 56th straight Olympic win in women’s basketball.

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Well, what we expected.

It’s kind of what happened.

Team USA women’s basketball came out with a dominant win in group play over team Japan 102 to 76 to start off their Olympic play man.

It was a huge second half push for team USA.

But it was clear to me in watching this game, guys that the leaders of this team are Asia Wilson and Breanna Stewart.

I thought that they played terrific.

The two of those combined to be 21 of 31 from the floor.

Talk about leading through your efficiency, Asia will with a double, double, 24 points and 13 rebounds and then Stewie had 22 points, eight rebounds and three assists.

I thought team USA did a great job of using their size advantage and height advantage over Japan a lot of points in the paint Chelsea gray though really set the tone from a point guard standpoint.

She had 13 assists in 20 minutes and then off the bench, two players particularly really stood out to me.

One was BG, she had three assists, nine rebounds and, and 11 points.

And then Sabrina Jane to look so comfortable so poised in her 55 Olympic debut, she knocked down three triples, she was three of seven and then had five assists.

Now, as much as there is so much positive to talk about with team USA in this win, there are some areas that I thought though needed to be better and really it was chemistry on the defensive end, felt like several times throughout their game, there was just miscommunications defensively or miscues and I feel like this is just kind of a of not having a lot of time playing together.

So really looking forward to in their next game Thursday versus Belgium for them to be able to get on the same page defensively.

But offensively, they were on a string, 35 assists on 42 made shots.

It doesn’t get much better than that in terms of sharing the basketball, a 56 consecutive Olympic win for team USA, everyone on the roster played today and everyone scored today was a good day for team USA.

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