2023-08-30 16:03:03
The United States finished the first round with three victories, with a full score, to lead the group standings against Greece, which overturned its 15-point deficit to defeat New Zealand 83-74, while Jordan was bottom of the group standings without any victory.
New Zealand’s loss was in the interest of its neighbor Australia, which booked its ticket to the Paris Olympics.
“The American team is very strong. We wanted to fight in the first quarter, but we did not show the same spirit that we showed in the first two matches,” said Jordan coach Wissam Al-Sous after the end of the match.
He continued, “We tried to rotate the players because it is not an opportunity that happens every day to face the United States.”
Al-Sous added, “We later released some players because we have two important matches in order to try to qualify for the Olympic Games and achieve the best possible position in the final standings.”
The match was marginal for the two sides, given that Jordan lost its chances of qualifying for the second round and will be satisfied with playing the matches to determine the positions from 17 to 32.
As for the American team, it qualified for the second round, where it will play in Group X alongside Lithuania, Montenegro and Greece, knowing that it will have to face Lithuania and Montenegro only according to the tournament system, which stipulates that the confrontation between two teams from the same first round group will not be repeated.
-Jordan and the battle to qualify for the Olympics-
For its part, the Jordanian team’s attention will turn to the battle to qualify for the Olympic Games, which will be decided in light of the placement matches, as the best-placed player from the Asian continent will qualify directly for the 2024 Paris Olympics, while the second-best-placed player will qualify for the play-offs next year.
The “Falcons” will face Egypt on Thursday and then Mexico on Saturday, and they will have to win the two matches, in return for which no Asian team will have two victories in order to qualify for the Olympic Games for the first time in its history.
Of course, the Americans dominated the match from the start, as the Jordanians struggled to match the speed and physical strength of the Americans.
The US national team, which is participating with a young squad under the leadership of Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr, and in the absence of first-class stars, hopes to restore consideration to it after its seventh place in the 2019 World Cup in China.
Anthony Edwards was the best scorer for the American team with 22 points and eight rebounds, and Bobby Portis Jr. added 13 points and Jaren Jackson Jr. 12.
The American, who was naturalized, Ronday Jefferson, scored 20 points for the Jordanian team.
-China out of the groups-
In the ninth group, Serbia finished the first round with a clean record after its great victory over South Sudan, 115-83 in the second group, and accompanied it later, Puerto Rico, by defeating China 107-89.
China suffered its third loss in a row and was eliminated in the group stage.
China lost their first two matches and faced the inevitable victory over Puerto Rico in Manila, but their fate was linked to the other results in the group to have any chance of qualifying.
The Chinese “giant” still has the opportunity to play to qualify for the Paris Olympics, but its Serbian coach, Alexander Djordjevic, said that his team “must be smarter.”
“We have to learn that every possession counts, every little thing counts. We gave a lot of second chances to the Puerto Rican team and they know how to handle the ball.”
The Chinese team will qualify for the Olympic Games in Paris if it ranks first among the Asian teams in the World Cup, knowing that Japan achieved one victory, while the Philippines, Jordan, Iran and Lebanon did not achieve any victory.
In Group F, Georgia qualified for the second round by defeating Venezuela 70-59.
In Group G, Spain, the defending champion, ended its campaign in the first round with minimal fuss, defeating Iran 85-65, to achieve its third successive victory.
Brazil qualified for the same group by finishing in second place behind Spain, after its victory over Ivory Coast 89-77.
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