Puerto Rico’s national team has celebrated a solid 80-70 victory over Mexico in its first match of the last and third FIBA qualifying event to be celebrated in public at the Coliseo Roberto Clemente de San Juan.
A great offensive work by Gian Clavell, who took a 7-0 lead in the final minutes of the quarter ahead of an Aztec quarterback, allowed the Borough squad to continue the Saturday with a good moment of compromise with the Bahamas, with which that Puerto Rico will search for its ticket to the 2022 AmeriCup.
Clavell scored 23 points, 12 of which were three points, while Shabazz Napier and José Juan Barea contributed 13 and 11 points respectively. Boricuas encestaron unos 17 tiros de triple merito.
Boricuas dominated the first period 22-13, and a score of three points by debutant Shabazz Napier showed that the market of the boricuas was opened. Curiously, Napier also closed the final marker with a triple.
A gift from Clavell sent the first part, from a second part where you have a very erratic start. Puerto Rico was not in action for four minutes and allowed Mexico to advance by 23-25 with a distance from veteran Gustavo Ayón. Puerto Rico closes the second season 28-23, to dominate the match 40-34.
The locals have a third effective time closing with a score of 55-44. Pero in the district court was arranged with a reaction captured by Ayón and Gabriel Girón who made it to the finals of the best in Mexico with 18 and 17 points each.
For Puerto Rico, Ramón Clemente captured 11 rebates and summed up in the United States.
The victory over Mexico did not guarantee a place in the AmeriCup. Puerto Rico needs to turn the Saturday in the Bahamas to capture the ballot.
Listos para Bahamas
The leader of the national balloon team, Eddie Casiano, wants to avoid everything that the Bahamas has a fierce rival in his aspirations for the 2022 AmeriCup tournament.
Casiano knows that the Bahamian community can do a lot of work on both sides of the road, but it will be clear that the plan for counterattack will be in the second game of the last FIBA windfall classification on the continental shelf.
“Bahamas scouting is tenemos. It’s a great, hybrid team. They have many shooters. I have a base that we have a lot of today. Be athletic. Perfect teams with them ”, expressed the Boric technique.
Puerto Rico won the November victory in the second-placed Indianapolis victory over a victorious winner — a friend from home — near the Bahamas 91-85 thanks to a final draw in the final quarter.
The Bahamian base from Shon Taylor was pure venue for the Boronic defense to score 25 points, 18 of them from the line of three points.
Without embarrassment, for this edition, Casiano will meet with more points in the manuscripts of José Juan Barea, Shabazz Napier and Gian Clavell.
Although it tends to suffer from the eternal problem of stature failure, Jorge Brian Díaz and the jealous Isaiah Piñeiro are not active for this event.
“Our somos are very hybrid and fast. In this edition we have many more points of those we hold at this moment. “If we hold on to them, we will fight against them and we will fight against them and we will not shoot three of them,” Casiano analyzed.
“But I believe that defensively, they have more problems than ours because we have more defensive options to attack,” he said.
The match will take place at 9:00 pm and will be broadcast by WAPA Deportes.