BEAUTIFUL, THEY ARE.– The Mexican Basketball Team left a good impression on his way through the Copa Energa, where they were awarded third place in the friendly contest held this weekend in Poland.
Those led by the Nogalense Omar quintero comfortably beat the selection of Tunisia by a marker of 74-61, taking control of the match during the last three quarters.
Tunisia started the game scoring 9 points that had no response from the Mexicans until Gabriel Girón he made two triples. For minutes the marker did not move, with both teams erring in the distance and losing the ball.
The sonorense Diego Willis entered the exchange and hit a triple that was followed by a double of Marco Ramos for the Mexican quintet to go ahead for the first time 16 a 15 with one minute left in the first period.
In the second quarter Ramos He commanded the defense of the team that allowed him to add only 11 units to Tunisia, so that Mexico went to the halftime break with an advantage of 56 to 37.
Once the match resumed, the Mexicans controlled the entire third quarter, maintaining the good work on defense and with Girón setting the pace of the game, taking off by 20 points in the sequence in which Fabian jaimes he stole the ball that ended in a one-man counterattack, depositing the ball at the back of the net to make the score 51-31.
In the last episode, however, the Africans had a major comeback, closing in on eight points with 4:26 to play. José Estrada and Ramos they kept things calm by scoring a double and a triple respectively, to take off again on the scoreboard.
Tunisia kept trying and Girón He was sent off due to the accumulation of fouls with two minutes to play, entering Willis instead to close the match where Orlando Mendez He nailed the dagger from long range for Mexico to stay ahead 72-59 with 1:35 to end the match.
After a failure of the rivals, Mendez His good performance was crowned with a double that ended the score 74-61 in favor of his team and finishing as the best scorer with 20 points. For its part, Willis contributed 8 tallies.
With this result, the selection of Quintero won in confidence ahead of their participation from June 29 to July 4 in the pre-Olympic in Croatia in which Tunisia will also compete for the only pass available in play.
In the qualifier Mexico cIt will share Group A with Germany and Russia, while Brazil, Croatia and the Africans will do the same in Group B.
Before looking for your ticket to Such 2020, Mexico will have to make a stopover in Greece to play the Acropolis Cup from 18 to 20, closing the European tour with a friendly against Serbia on the 23rd.
