The Argentine basketball team beat the United States 82-73 and will play the Americup final

The Argentine basketball team wrote one of the important pages of his history: beat the United States 82-73 in the semifinals of the Americup y will dispute the title this Sunday against the winner of Canada or Brazil, the local (from 20.40). It is the third time in history that the Albiceleste manages to impose itself on 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 he commands, since this tournament, Pablo Prigioni was Gabriel Deck: closed a spreadsheet with 30 points (9 of 13), 7 rebounds and 1 assist. Nicolás Laprovittola He also closed a presentation with 18 points, 2 assists, 3 steals and 6 rebounds. Yes ok Facundo Campazzo He had an erratic day with just 4 hits out of 13 attempts, 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 seven point difference thanks to the 40-33 scoreline that he came 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 y Charles Delphine (both with 5 points during those first two quarters). The number 10, in addition, scored 3 assists in that passage.

Laprovittola He had 5 points, but with a 40% effectiveness in that passage in shots from the field and scored 4 rebounds. He was not so prominent in that period of Campazzowho spent 15 minutes on the court but shot 0 for 3, gave 2 assists and grabbed 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 who had been on the field.

Argentine was twice up by 11 points on the scoreboard throughout the first three quartersbut an erratic third quarter allowed the North American team to cut the distance to such an extent that with two minutes to go I even stepped forward for almost the first time in the entire game. The reaction almost a minute after closing was fundamental to level the balance again for the albiceleste side and close that third partial with 6 of distance with and 58-52.

One of the elemental themes was that Campazzo He 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.

THE PREVIEW OF THE MATCH

The Argentine basketball team seeks passage to the final of the Americup against the United States. The game can be followed on the screens of TyC Sports y DirecTV Sports.

The team of Pablo Prigioni He is undefeated so far in the competition and showed a solid game that makes him one of the candidates to win the tournament that brings together the best national teams on the continent. After the internal noise generated by the dismissal of Néstor Che García as coach, the team seemed not to suffer that last-minute change on the pitch.

In the group stage, Argentina was one double away from having qualified as the best of all. In its premiere it easily beat Virgin Islands (95-62) and then showed all his scoring ability against Puerto Rico (99-86). Already in the definition of the area, he was able to overcome Dominican Republic 90-78. That earned him go to the key he found it with Venezuela in the quarterfinals.

And despite having an irregular first half, the national team took out all its plate in the second half to win a resounding victory (76-53) and classify among the best four of the contest.

What is the good present based on? Albiceleste? In its players and the great work of the technical staff that accompanies Prigioni as a leader. Gabriel Deck He recovered his best version in the national team -he had not had a good Olympic Games due to the consequences left by the coronavirus- and reached the semifinals as the top scorer in the Americup with an average of 19.3 points. the room is Nicolás Laprovittola (16.5), who took advantage of the function of playing more as a shooting guard than as a point guard in the company of Making Campazzo.

If we are talking about Cordoba, it must be said that the former Denver Nuggets is championship assists leader (9.5) and comes from adding 15 – historical record in the selection – in the victory against the Venezuelans in the quarterfinals. Also, number 7 tops the steal chart with almost 4 per game.

Opposite will be the United States team. A team full of players who knew how to go through basketball in Europe and get to play in the NBA without much importance. A completely alternative representative considering that his main bets are in the World Cup and the Olympic Games. Norris Cole (averaging 15 points per game) is his main weapon in attack, but they have already shown that he has shortcomings when it comes to defending. And above all, the game could be complicated if Argentina manages to do what it does best in attack: pass the ball quickly and efficiently.

The winner of this duel will play the grand final on Sunday against the winner of the other semifinal that the venue will star in, Brazil and Canada from 8:40 p.m. in Recife.

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