The US team overcame a turnover-ridden start and beat France easily yesterday.

"I'm not sure why we started out slow," said Sue Bird. "We're still getting to know each other. You never want to make excuses, but the more we get to know each other and play together the better it will get. We talked about that in the locker room, especially the turnovers. In the second half we wanted to come out and make a point. We know teams are going to look at these scores. Just like we hear about other teams, like China beat whoever and won, we hear about other scores and people are going to hear about this. We need to start right now going in the right direction going into the Olympics."

Leslie led with 12 and 9. Coach Chancellor expects a tougher matchup today against Spain.