Fiba World Cup: Puerto Rico outlasts South Sudan in ‘crazy’ OT game
Puerto Rico’s Ismael Romero in a Fiba World Cup sport towards South Sudan at Sensible Araneta Coliseum. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.internet
MANILA, Philippines—Puerto Rico crashed South Sudan’s celebration with a 101-96 win in extra time in Group B of the Fiba World Cup 2023 at Araneta Coliseum on Saturday.
The Sudanese, who performed of their first World Cup sport in historical past, appeared like they had been able to stun the world, solely to be annoyed by the Puerto Ricans with an enormous fourth quarter onslaught.
Then Puerto Rico, after needing to stage a comeback late the the sport, took over for good within the extra time interval to win its first task on this yr’s World Cup.
“We simply knew it was going to be like this, a loopy sport. We’ve just one probability. We mentioned after the primary half, we have to change all the pieces ‘trigger they rating too simply,” mentioned Ismael Romero, who completed with a double-double of 16 factors and 12 rebounds.
“Within the second half, we switched all the pieces. We performed extra protection and we have now this end result.”
The extra skilled Puerto Ricans dug deep to point out the Sudanese that the World Cup is a distinct animal in entrance of three,116 basketball-crazed followers, erasing the African staff’s seven-point lead with 6:30 left to play.
The Sudanese had been forward 72-65 earlier than Stephen Thompson Jr. sank a fastbreak layup which sparked a 12-6 run that shaved South Sudan’s result in one, 78-77, with 41.9 ticks left within the fourth.
Puerto Rico’s Tremont Waters in a Fiba World Cup sport towards South Sudan at Sensible Araneta Coliseum. –MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.internet
Romero then took issues into his personal fingers with a two-handed jam that lastly put the Puerto Ricans within the driver’s seat. Tremont Waters then bought fouled and nailed two extra free throws to place Puerto Rico forward, 81-78.
A triple by South Sudan star Carlik Jones, although, tied the sport at 81-all, sending the sport to additional time.
However the Puerto Ricans opened extra time with seven unanswered factors, 88-81, sparked by an and-one bucket from George Conditt, who completed with 18 markers and 11 boards.
Serving to Puerto Rico was former NBA participant Waters, who completed with a double-double of 19 factors and 10 assists, placing the double-double rely of the Puerto Ricans at 4.
Thompson Jr. additionally registered a double-double with 21 factors and 13 rebounds for Puerto Rico.
Jones’ 38-point outburst was not sufficient for South Sudan whereas former Los Angeles Laker Wenyen Gabriel scattered 15 markers in a dropping effort.
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