The Argentine basketball team wrote one of the important pages in its history: it beat the United States 82-73 in the Americup semifinals and will play the title this Sunday against Brazil, the local team (from 8:40 p.m.).
It is the third time in history that the Albiceleste manages to prevail over the North Americans in this contest, where they attended with an alternative representative who in any case had some outstanding surnames.
The great star of the team that Pablo Prigioni commands, since this tournament, was Gabriel Deck: he closed a list with 30 points (9 of 13), 7 rebounds and 1 assist. Nicolás Laprovittola also closed a presentation with 18 points, 2 assists, 3 steals and 6 rebounds. Although Facundo Campazzo had an erratic day with just 4 hits out of 13 attempts, he showed his hierarchy in the final quarter to sustain the result and signed statistics of 10 points, 7 assists and 5 steals.
Argentina went to the locker room at halftime with a difference of seven points thanks to the 40-33 scoreline that they managed to accumulate, accumulating a 46% effectiveness in shooting at the hoop in the first two quarters.
During the first stage, Deck shone with 16 points (4 of 6 shooting from the field) 2 rebounds and 2 assists, but there was also an interesting contribution from Juan Vaulet and Carlos Delfino (both with 5 points during those first two quarters). The number 10, in addition, scored 3 assists in that passage.
Laprovittola had 5 points, but with a 40% effectiveness in that passage in shots from the field and scored 4 rebounds. Campazzo was not so prominent in that period, who spent 15 minutes on the court but had a 0 of 3 shots at the hoop, gave 2 assists and captured 2 rebounds.
On the other hand, there was no outstanding task to the point that four players signed four points to their statistics and the best scorer of the first two quarters was Jodie Meeks (5 points) in the 7 minutes he had remained on the field.
Argentina was twice up by 11 points on the scoreboard throughout the first three quarters, but an erratic third quarter allowed the North American team to cut the distance to such a point that with two minutes to go they even stepped forward almost for the first time. once in the entire game. The reaction almost a minute before closing was fundamental to level the balance again for the albiceleste side and close that third quarter with a distance of 6 with a 58-52.
One of the elementary issues was that Campazzo had the rim closed: for that stage he was with two points after seven attempts at the rim, although he did sign three more assists and had been collaborating with four steals. In return, Deck added another eight points in the third quarter and his scoresheet indicated 24 points.
