The team left a good feeling by keeping the score closed for much of the game.
The Slovenian team showed that it is one of the favorites in the Basketball World Cup by beating the national team of Venezuela with a final score of 100-85 in a fairly intense duel.
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The Creole team showed that it arrives with the aim of continuing to make history and showed all its skills in the first quarter of the game by surprising all the fans with a favorable score of 33-31 against Slovenia.
In this period, the team led by Fernando Duró planted a formidable defense that limited the offense of the old continent.
For the second period of the match, the scheme changed and the European defense made it difficult for Venezuela to be able to turn the score around thanks to a 25-18 partial to gain an advantage that they would not lose.
After the break, the Slovenian team managed to add 10 points to the advantage they already had over Venezuela with a score of 22-12. This result was also reflected a few minutes in which the Creole quintet suffered from several missed shots that could keep the match tight.
Despite the disadvantage on the scoreboard, Venezuela did not give up and in the last period took the reins of the match with an impressive ability on the court to quickly add points that unbalanced their rivals.
The team took the offensive advantage to show that they are going with everything for the international event by taking advantage of long distance shots.
An important fact of the game is that Venezuela managed to dominate from long distance by scoring 16 triples throughout the game, surpassing the 11 hit by Slovenia. However, the free throws represented a point that changed the scheme of the game; Venezuela scored seven, while Slovenia registered 23.
According to the FIBA balance, Heissler Guillent was the best player in Venezuela with a total of 12 points, 2 rebounds, 6 assists and a steal. The Creoles’ top scorer was Garly Sojo with a total of 16 goals.
For Slovenia, their captain Luka Doncic showed that he was quite recovered from his discomfort and finished the game with 37 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists and 2 steals.
Venezuela’s next game will be on Monday against the Cape Verde team, a team that was beaten by Georgia this Saturday with a final score of 60-85.
In the rest of the day:
Brazil 100 – 59 Iran Cape Verde 60 – 85 Georgia South Sudan 96 – 101 Puerto Rico Jordan 71 – 92 Greece
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