The penultimate day of ladies’s 3×3 basketball on the 2024 Paris Olympics will tip-off this Saturday, Aug. 3, starting with the ultimate spherical of pool play video games and culminating with the primary two video games (or “play-in” video games) of the 3×3 event.
Because the event schedule received’t technically be set till after Saturday’s pool video games have been determined, it’s arduous to foretell what’s going to occur when Olympic medals are on the road. Listed here are the pool play standings to this point:
- Germany (5-1)
- Spain (4-2)
- Australia (4-2)
- United States (3-3)
- Canada (3-3)
- Azerbaijan (2-4)
- China (2-4)
- France (1-5)
The one factor set in stone is that France, with only one win and one recreation remaining, won’t make the event and thus be eradicated from the competitors. Germany, in the meantime, is within the driver’s seat to advance on to the semifinals that start on Monday, Aug. 5, however they’ll nonetheless want to complete pool play robust on Saturday to clinch the top-two end wanted for a play-in bye.
The remainder of the pool stays utterly up within the air. China and Azerbaijan might be in must-win conditions, whereas the USA may also attempt to sneak into the event after starting pool play at 0-3. With the way in which the ultimate spherical of pool video games are arrange, there’s even a risk that the USA, Canada, Azerbaijan and China all end pool play with a 3-4 report, which might create an unenviable four-way tiebreaker state of affairs during which head-to-head information would resolve who strikes on and who’s eradicated, in accordance with the FIBA 3×3 rulebook.
America can’t fear about that now. They’ve dug themselves out of an early gap in pool play, night their report at 3-3 after a last-second Rhyne Howard basket lifted them over Canada. Whereas the USA hasn’t fairly lived as much as the lofty expectations it earned with gold medals within the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and the 2023 FIBA 3×3 World Cup, they’ve turned what might have been a catastrophe in Paris right into a scenario that’s nonetheless salvageable. Ending pool play robust towards China would put the USA within the event part, at which level something might occur—for higher or for worse.
Recreation data
Azerbaijan vs. Canada
When: Saturday, August 3 at 11:30 a.m. ET
The place: Place de la Concorde in Paris, France
The best way to watch: Peacock
Spain vs. Germany
When: Saturday, August 3 at 12:00 p.m. ET
The place: Place de la Concorde in Paris, France
The best way to watch: Peacock
France vs. Australia
When: Saturday, August 3 at 12:35 p.m. ET
The place: Place de la Concorde in Paris, France
The best way to watch: Peacock
China vs. United States
When: Saturday, August 3 at 1:05 p.m. ET
The place: Place de la Concorde in Paris, France
The best way to watch: CNBC
Play-in recreation (No. 4 vs. No. 5)
When: Saturday, August 3 at 3:30 p.m. ET
The place: Place de la Concorde in Paris, France
The best way to watch: Peacock
Play-in recreation (No. 3 vs. No. 6)
When: Saturday, August 3 at 4:05 p.m. ET
The place: Place de la Concorde in Paris, France
The best way to watch: USA Community
