The U.S. men’s basketball team, determined to get rid of the poor performance of the previous season, selected a number of NBA new stars this year and received training in the casino city of Las Vegas for about a month. Although they lost to the Lithuanian team in the second round, most of the other games ended with Winning by large margins, including a 100:63 victory over the Italian team in the quarterfinals. Facing the German team, which has four NBA players to support this year, the performance was slow at the beginning of the game, but Welles, Haliburton and Cameron Johnson, who came on the bench, scored consecutive three-pointers. , helping the team fall behind by only two points in the first quarter. In the second quarter, star player Anthony Edwards of the Minnesota Timberwolves scored 9 points for the US team, helping the team lead 60:59 at halftime.
In the third quarter, the German team took advantage of the American team’s cold touch and frequent mistakes, and launched an 8:0 offensive in the final period, entering the final quarter with a 10-point advantage. Later, the American team was chased by point guard Sherron Banson with 6 points in a row, but the German team kept the lead and finally won 113:111. It entered the finals for the first time in team history, surpassing the third place result in 2002, while the American team Missed the finals for two consecutive years.
As for the Canadian team, which eliminated the Slovenia team a few days ago due to the controversy over the law enforcement of the ball, they will now face the Serbian team in another semi-final match. In the first quarter, not only the two main players, center Whitebow and forward Dylan Bux, received personal fouls. However, the Serbian army launched a 13:2 offensive from the middle section and led the first quarter 23:15. In the second quarter, Serbia’s NBA player Bodan Luoyu scored 9 points, tied for the game-high 23 points, and the half ended at 52:39.
Although the “Maple Leaf Nation” was chasing in the second half, led by NBA rising star Kygeos Alexander, who contributed a “double-double” in the game, Serbia maintained its advantage with far superior shooting percentage and rebounds, and finally won 95:86. By defeating the Canadian team, the country and Montenegro reached the finals for the first time since their independence, and will compete with the German team for the championship later in the evening. The Serbian army had previously won the championship in 1998 and 2002 as the Serbian and Montenegrin team, and had reached the finals five times during the former Yugoslavia team, including winning the championship in 1970, 1978 and 1990. The defeated Canadian team will move to the third-place match with the American team the day after.
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2023-09-08 15:35:25
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