The United States women's basketball team may finally get a test in these Olympics.
Diana Taurasi and Co. face Turkey on Wednesday night after winning their first two games of the London Games by an average of 38.5 points. They beat Angola by 52 points in their last game. Turkey, however, hung with the Americans for three quarters of an exhibition game in Istanbul nine days ago before the U.S. pulled away to a 19-point victory.
The U.S. women certainly are familiar with Turkey. Six Americans have played for Turkish clubs in the winter and Lindsay Whalen will become the seventh when she goes there after the WNBA season is over.
"A lot of these girls will be my teammates next year or my opponents," Whalen says. "That's the way international basketball is. You get to play with girls one day and the next you're playing against them. Having the familiarity helps as you know what they can do."
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