2023-02-27 08:00:00
Beaten yesterday by the Dominican Republic, Argentina is officially eliminated from the 2023 Basketball World Cup. Such a scenario had not happened since 1982, they who have always established themselves as tauliers in America and contenders for the world title .
If the god of football was lenient for the Argentines in December, that of the orange ball was able to rebalance the balance. Last night, Argentina was therefore eliminated from the race for the 2023 World Cup. The fault of a final playoff match against the Dominican Republic, lost 79-75. However, the team led by Facundo Campazzo was the clear favourite. She was given victorious both by the bookmakers and by the Argentinian supporters encouraging their pack at home, at the Falkland Islands Sports Center. And many even thought the game was over when, two minutes from the end of the third quarter, Argentina took off with a 17-point lead.
The Argentinians will finally achieve a catastrophic last inning, they will not be able to stop the Dominican revolution and the last seconds of Argentina’s game will be so chaotic that they will make the Rockets of 2018 jealous. Los Quisqueyanos by Victor Liz lead by two points, Nicolas Laprovittola had a chance to equalize on the throw but misses both shots. During the next possession, Eloy Vargas takes care of the poor Argentinians and comes to file a smooth lay-up on the board, to give Rep Dom a 4-point lead. The Albiceleste will never recover.
Argentina ends like this fourth in their group with 20 points, tied with Venezuela. To be qualified you had to finish in the top three of your group… or be the best fourth, but in the end and for a story of a few points it is finally Brazil who come out of it and who will go to the CDM in September.
So it’s the end of a pretty crazy series of 40 years of participation in the World Cup. Winner of the first edition in 1950, Argentina has always qualified since 1982. For the Dominican Republic, on the other hand, it is a real feat : the team joins the list of qualifiers for the 2023 World Cup which will take place in Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines, for what will be only the third participation in its history.
Quite a thunderclap, therefore, for a nation that was Olympic champion in 2004 and still a finalist in the last CDM in 2019. The legacy is immense and, for the moment, the descendants of Manu Ginobili and Luis Scola… are not up to the task. .
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