Canada’s elderly males’s basketball group sustained a 90-minute hold-up at the beginning of the video game, and afterwards overcame a pair on-court problems of their very own prior to going down a 98-94 choice to Mexico on Monday in a FIBA Men’s AmeriCup qualifier video game in San Luis Potosi City.
Despite the loss, Canada still ended up initially in Pool C with a 4-2 document and punched its ticket to this summer season’s AmeriCup.
Mfiondu Kabengele led the Canadian assault with 24 factors and 8 rebounds, while Jahvon Henry-Blair had 16 factors and Isiaha Mike had 15 factors and 10 rebounds.
Kabengele missed out on both nasty shots with a possibility to link the video game at 96-96 with 6 secs left.
Pako Cruz had a game-high 30 factors for Mexico, which required to defeat Canada by a minimum of 17 indicate progress to the AmeriCup champion. Karim Rodriguez had 14 factors for the hosts, while Gabriel Giron included 12.
The beginning of the video game was postponed as a result of a reported “technical issue” to a shot clock. Canada led 29-26 after the very first quarter yet tracked 54-51 at halftime. Canada took a 71-69 introduce the last quarter.
