We have been so close to beating the Americans in the past two Olympic finals. And this year we want to get some wins over them here in Australia, just to prove we can do it, and then we want to beat them in the gold medal game at the world championships in Brazil.

We have been so close to beating the Americans in the past two Olympic finals.

We were much more focussed during this game. We are using this tournament to paint a bigger picture ? for the World Championships.

I thought we might have struggled a bit more than we did. We've had a lot of games that have had that kind of margin at the end, so we ran some plays and tried a few things. I thought that worked quite well and we need to know we can do that against quality opposition.

Our defensive resolve is what got it done for us. To hold any international team to 40 points is a fantastic effort.

She could've played this match, and wanted to play, but we need her to be as close to 100 per cent as she can be for the gold medal game.