USA basketball gets it done, plus a chat with Arsenal forward Alessia Russo

The Late Sub with Claire Watkins

Just Women’s Sports

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4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

In this weeks episode, Claire talks through the final few days of the 2024 Olympics, a gold medal basketball game that went the distance in ways nobody expected, big winners and losers from the Olympic soccer tournament and more. Then, she has a lovely chat with Arsenal and Lionesses forward Alessia Russo about returning to the U.S. after spending her college days in Chapel Hill for her club’s upcoming friendly matchup against the Washington Spirit.

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0:00.0	You kind of bring in this USA team that's very, very talented, but they play the
0:03.4	WMBA games all the way up to the week before the Olympics, right?
0:06.8	They have the All-Star game the week before the Olympics.
0:09.0	The US doesn't get a time of time to train together.
0:11.4	And you could see that.
0:12.3	They got a little
0:12.8	rattle when things started to not go their way they started throwing the ball
0:15.6	away a little bit more they started making mistakes started going one-by-one
0:19.0	getting a little bit more ice so it's this classic issue that USA basketball has had for a long time, especially on the men's side of how do you turn this into a team quickly and I think that Reeve kind of struggled with that.
0:32.0	Hello everybody and welcome to this week's edition of the late sub it is Monday
0:37.1	August 12th I am your host Claire Watkins and we are going to be talking about the
0:42.0	wrap up of the Olympics.
0:43.7	The Olympics are over.
0:45.6	The ceremonial flag has been passed.
0:48.8	And before we start talking about that,
0:50.4	what comes to the future, we have a really exciting final weekend of action to wrap up
0:54.7	big picture takeaways in both basketball and soccer as well as just some shoutouts some of the
0:59.3	other top performers of the last week of the games and And then we have a very, very special guest
1:04.5	to talk to us about some of the, let's say,
1:07.6	slightly international vibe to soccer
1:09.9	happening in the United States immediately after the games before NWSL begins.
1:15.0	It's going to be a jam-packed episode.
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