QUICK START

Team Slovenia advances
to the next round.

Team Australia point guard Patty Mills thinks that the quick start of Slovenia did the damage in their FIBA World Championships knockout game, which the former lost by a wide margin, 87-58. Mills said that a team has to be ready at the starting gate to gain headway in a crucial game, according to ESPN True Hoop. Slovenia scored the first 12 points and those early blows kept the Aussies at bay until the end.

“In international games when you're turning it up to a World Championship level, you've got to be ready to go from the jump -- and we started off on the back foot and were never in it. We can look forward to London, at least, but it's difficult to go out on a performance like that.”