Lose Aposta to win with the Picaresque Summum. Is what he did yesterday Brazil against him Team USA in it Global ClockSub-23 International Basketball Tournament organized by the FIBA and the Canadian Federation held every year in Toronto.
The Brazilian team and the United States played their last match of the Liguilla, with also Canada and Japan in a single group in which the first two pass to the final. The Team USA is represented by the NCAA team of Georgetown University, los Georgetown Hoyas.
With the game 74-74 And five seconds for playing, Julius Halaifonua was about to launch the second free kick of a foul to try to put the American combined with advantage one above and thus put pressure on Brazil in the last possession.
Halaifonua proceeded to throw and, when the ball began to descend in his parable, Nathan Marianofrom Brazil, jumped and intercepted the trajectory of the free kick to the general astonishment in something that is not seen in a Pachanga of Park. The referees, applying the rules of the goaltendingthey told the free kick for the United States and pointed to Brazil a technique that allowed Team to enjoy another launch from 4.60 to put the 76-74.
The Brazilian team requested dead time to draw a play for the last five seconds but the triple did not enter and the American team ended up taking the victory. The United States needed to win yes or yes to have options to get in the final coming from his victory against Japan and although Brazil came with two victories, the South American team was exposed to the risk of be eliminated In a possible triple tie with the USA and Canada Team, so no one understood that the Brazilian team lost on purpose.
However, what seemed an immolation at first was to be a Machiavellian of losing to end up winning the dessert and ensure the pass to the final.
As explained by the coaches of Brazil, their boys committed such an infraction to eliminate precisely that triple tie option that could have left them out and that was taken for granted because Canada had to play against the weak Japan. The differential of points in the direct confrontations between the three selections was the rapport criteria and Brazil led that classification with a +5 with then Team USA with -1 and Canada with -4. A basket average that put Brazil and the United States in the final of the Global Jam in what will be a reissue on Sunday of this encounter with such a strange outcome.
The idea of the Brazilian team with the incomprehensible granting of that point through the goaltending To the American team was to avoid at all costs a draw that would have sent them to the protrogain which a defeat by a margin of 10 points would have left them out of the final in favor of Canada. With the score 74-74, if the United States failed that second free kick and Brazil did not write down the game in the last possession. extra timewith what that infraction for goaltending With the point granted to Team USA, he assured that the draw was broken. Of rebound, the American combined also benefited by staying Canada automatically eliminated.
With 76-74 below, Brazil could simply have spoiled the play but prepared a triple attempt in a dead time to achieve a victory, because this result also gave them the pass and, incidentally, allowed them to avoid the final against a team that breathed relieved when he saw the failure. The Brazilian team brought the lesson of the math of the triple tie so learned to the point of having talked about what to do in that situation in the hotel talk.
Just in case, the Brazil coach, Hélio Filhohe asked for dead time before Team wears launched the two free throws with his team 73-74 above. It was supposed to prepare a play in the last five seconds, but painted more reminder to his boys from the triquiñuela because the dead time to try a winning shot was after the free throws. Dead time to try a buzzer-beater It would come after disconcerting action.
“What about Brazil? If you are stupidly competitive you have to do it”
Host Canada was the great harmed of the Picaresco Plan of Brazil because it was of no use to win Japan (89-74) to end with a 2-1 balance such as Team USA and the Brazilian team, which beat the Canadian team the first day (78-85). Canada had defeated the United States on Thursday (65-62), but ended like the team with a worse basket average With respect to Brazil and the United States. The coach of the Canadian team, Dave Smart, It valued the controversial action of Brazil.
“You are trying to get to the final. I mean, I don't like the rule to be honest. If they want Goaltening, I don't think it should be technical, it's galting. But they didn't want to go to extension and losing for 12so what it is. We put ourselves in this position (for losing against Brazil) and that is how things are going and control your own destiny. And they had that luxury because they beat us, so I'm not going to complain. If you are stupidly competitive and you don't like losing you should probably do it, ”Smart argued without putting excuses.
It is not the first time that happens: a precedent in high -level basketball
The best known precedent of Galtening in high -level basketball took place in 2008, in an NCAA match between Georgia y Kentucky in the Southwest Conference Elimination Tournament. Georgia won 56-57 with 1.2 seconds to play and had two free throws. Georgia had the pan for the mango after scoring the first release, because with 56-58 above he only had to fail on the Kentucky could not throw in the second left, although he no longer had dead times and could not advance the ball to the middle track.
Kentucky's illustrious coach, Billy Gillespiehe ordered to do goaltending In the second shot as the last measure to the desperate one, although it was unlikely to success. The interfered launch counted as a point for Georgia (56-59), but if the two free throws derived from the Kentucky technique failed, the ball could move forward to the middle track to try a triple to tie. But Georgia turned both releases and the triquiñuela went to the fret.
Brazil is encouraging competition not only for such an original 'trap' -between quotes because the rules allow it -but also for its basketball. The South American team has already surprised Canada on the first day and to beat the Team Use after losing 13 in the last quarter, a demonstration that gives him many options to try to deprive the United States of the title in the final of this Sunday. On the first day of the tournament, Wednesday, Luguentz there He offered the trophy to the fans the Larry O'Brien trophy that won in June with the Thunder with another Canadian like the MVP Shai Gilgeous-Alexandernot present nevertheless in this competition that a surprise champion could have.
Brazil has an ACB player as the UCAM Murcia eaves Joao Gluckwhich has two seasons at the club and will play in the new U and also has the 'Nathan Mariano, who will play this campaign in its ranks in the new league. The Brazilian team also has three players competing in the NCAA: Samis Calderón (University of Kansas) and Eduardo Klafke and Augusto Cassia (Olemiss University).
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For its part, the Team Use compound of Georgetown players is not precisely the most powerful it could have brought. The university has no player projected for now in the next draft, although two players chosen in the last draft have come out of the Hoyas with the pivot prospect THOMAS Sorber Chosen in 15 by the current Thunder and Micah Peavy champions, the eaves drafted in 40 by the Washington Wizards.
Canada and Team USA will play the female final but something very exceptional has to happen in one of the two finals so that the moment that goes to posterity in the Global Clock It is not that of the legal triquiñuela to ensure the pass to the final by a Brazil that could not spin finer. The picaresque of the picarescas.
