Argentina’s Quest for Olympic Qualification hangs in the Balance as they face Bahamas in Crucial Match

The mission Olympic Games Paris 2024 it remains dormant. The Argentine basketball team intends to take a big step, but knows the difficulties. Although Chile was imposed in the semifinals of the tournament that grants a place for next year’s Prequalifier, tonight, starting at 9:00 p.m., they will have a very difficult company with the duel against Bahamas. Pablo Prigioni’s team knows perfectly well that if he fails to prevail in this final, the dream of reaching the Olympic event will end tonight in Santiago del Estero.

The team that Pablo Prigioni leads today is now “in the mud”, as its captain, Facundo Campazzo, stated days ago to LA NACION. And being in the mud forced him to work overtime to beat Chile 87 to 79. The national team did not play at a high level and, in part, it was because of what an opponent who historically did not cause him headaches proposed. but on this occasion, at times it made him uneasy and uncomfortable and, with his limited tools, the same ones with which he won the three games in the first stage and led group B, he stayed alive until the last seconds and said goodbye to the tournament with more certainties than doubts regarding its future at the international level. For those led by Pablo Prigioni, it was one more step towards the goal of winning the championship that will define against Bahamas, which beat Uruguay 78-62, in the second semifinal.

Carlos Delfino the experience quota of the national team for the decisive appointment against Bahamaswww.fiba.basketball

The Argentine team stars in the Olympic Prequalifier because they did not enter the World Cup from the qualifiers. It will be the fifth time in its history that it will not participate in the ecumenical event; the last time was Colombia 1982, after it placed third in the South American Championship, behind Uruguay and Brazil. Nor was it in 1954, after being champion in 1950, nor in 1970 and 1978.

The championship that takes place in Santiago del Estero grants a ticket to one of the FIBA ​​Olympic qualifying tournaments, which will take place from July 2 to 7, shortly before Paris 2024. There will be four competitions that will bring together a total of 24 countries (with six teams per zone) and in each one there will be a quota for the Olympic Games. Argentina can access this route and for this it is essential to overcome the competition in Santiago del Estero, that is, to win the final that it will face this Sunday and which became one of the most important games of the year.

In the event that the Argentine team does not obtain the ticket for the Pre-Olympic next year, it will be left without participating in an Olympic event after 24 years, since the last time it was not in an Olympic Game was in Sydney 2000.

Tonight’s commitment against the Bahamas will be very complex and the Argentine team knows it because in the first match of the national team in this competition they lost against the Bahamians, who have three NBA figures, DeAndre Ayton, Eric Gordon and Buddy Hield, who are the owners of the team’s shares and who were decisive in the first match to win 101-89.

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2023-08-20 14:21:00
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