OS Beijing 2008 Paralympics Olympics Pekin

Russian adventure finally came to an end, a happy ending! Most of all, Becky Hammon’s bet to go along with the Russian line up, instead of joining the Americans was in a way or another a winning bid; a bronze medal in Olympics is definitely an accomplishment.

On the other hand, Chinese players offered the crowds a fair show, looking good on TV. Despite many mistakes on defense, particularly in rebounding, the Asian team displayed a set of tactics starring and depending on Chen Nan’s 26 points but scarcely 3 rebounded balls. China who was trailing by 19 points in the 3^rd quarter managed to reduce the average into 11.

Russia’s main key to success was the long range lane, scoring nine 3 pointers of which Hammon achieved 4/6; a middling of 66.7% .

Becky Hammon earned the Russian Nationality, and joined Russia’s national team during this summer. The originally American in Russian basketball jerseys is being an ultimate leader by exemple to her team mates.

Tatiana Scshegelova hit 15 and center Maria Stepanova made 15 dots accompanied by 9 rebounds.

Leading scorer for the Europeans was Becky Hammon with 22 points; Russian bidding on Becky and vice versa turned out to be a winning bet.