The dream of the Argentine national team, although flimsy due to the hazardous path that would also have been ahead of him, ended definitively in Santiago del Estero, where the Bahamas defeated him 82-75 and after 24 years, since Sydney 2000, sky blue basketball and White will not be in an Olympic Game.
The final of the Pre-Olympic Pre-qualifier seemed to have three first quarters in which the illusion of those led by Pablo Prigioni had reason to exist, since in the first they prevailed 26-22, tied 42-42 in the second and went back to the front. 63-59 in the third.
But in the fourth and with three NBA on the field, the Bahamians imposed conditions, dried up Argentina in attack, since they barely scored 12 points, while they effectively boosted their offensive appetite translated into 23 goals.
This, contrasting with what was done by its two top figures in the first half, when Facundo Campazzo delivered no less than 11 assists and scored eight points, while Gabriel Deck scored 14, seemed very similar to the end of the cycle that will need another laborious construction. from the very foundations to try to return to being.
It is that under the management of a historical reference like Pablo Prigioni the national team ended up losing all the places where it had stomped in recent decades.
First it was the elimination against the Dominican Republic of Néstor García in Mar del Plata that prevented him from going to the next World Cup, and now against the Bahamas, another Caribbean and also at home, in Santiago del Estero, which sidelined him from the 2024 Paris Olympics .
At least the Bahamas will have another chance in the Pre-Olympics that will be played from July 2 to 7 of next year to continue dreaming of Paris 2024, something that Argentina lost today, although the equation is even more critical, since the future of Albiceleste basketball He does not envision a future that is at all encouraging.
2023-08-21 03:02:09
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