Brazil rocks in the Global Jam and beats the US at the last minute

The Brazilian team is behind in the lacar for almost the entire game, but has the star of Yago, Flamengo’s point guard, to beat the Americans in the end.

After claiming their first victory in the Globl Jam tournament, Brazilian Team under-23 men’s basketball kept the momentum going and won the great United States by 73 to 71. The team that had already lost to the Canada and surpassed to Italyknew how to control the emotional even being behind in the scoreboard during almost the entire game and had the star of Yagoscorer in the last two matches and author of the decisive basket that guaranteed the Brazilian victory.

With a poor defensive start, the United States found no difficulty in scoring, keeping three balls from the perimeter at the beginning of the dispute. Thus, the break requested by the technician was necessary Tiagosplitter for the Brazilian defense to show its usual strength in the tournament. Even so, the attack suffered a lot and couldn’t be as effective in the first of the four parts of the game, which resulted in a 16-15 defeat in the first quarter.

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With Yago still far from the game and the balls of three Americans continuing to fall, Brazil bet on the paint to not let the opponent’s advantage get big. There were 14 points from the paint for the selection in the second quarter, more than double the opponents, who had 4 hits from the perimeter. With that the first half ended 38 to 35, but with the good news of the first points of the point guard of the Flamengowhich started to enter the game.

The third period did not have great highlights other than the beautiful play of Reynan, who scored in the middle of three North American markers and ended up 57 to 53. Which was different from the last part of the game, which was exciting from start to finish. The United States opened up an 11-point lead at the start of the last quarter, but the quick reaction of the Canary national team made the difference, as they managed a 9-0 partial and equalized the score at 67-67 with just 3 minutes to go. end of match. With the favorites keeping the lead until the end, Yago kicked from the perimeter and turned the game around, having time for just one more opposing possession, which was not taken advantage of, 73 to 71.

Brazil and USA faced each other today at Globl Jam, Sub23 tournament/Créditos: Transmissão/SporTV

Now, it remains for the selection to know its classification to define the semifinal clash, as Canada and Italy face each other today,7, at 22:00 (Brasília time) in the last game of the first phase of the Globl Jam. The tournament has only four teams, where all qualify and cross the 1st x 4th and 2nd x 3rd in the next phase. The final will be on Sunday the 10th.


Source: sportbuzz

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