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Favorite national team after extra time in the semi-finals of the Olympic qualifying tournament in Victoria, Canada 101: 103 (27:29, 17:23, 16:15, 34:27, 7: 9) landed on the Czech basketball players and withdrew from the fight for a ticket to Japan.
In the final on Monday night in Lithuanian time, Czech basketball players will compete for the ticket to Tokyo with the winners of the semi-final pair of the Turkish and Greek teams.
In a very volatile match, the Canadian team miraculously survived to the end of the fourth quarter. 22 seconds left the hosts were behind 88:94, but under very favorable circumstances they managed to rip off overtime: Andrew Wiggins scored the three-point tie.
Still, another NBA league basketball player got the last laugh during overtime. Although Canada led the way for a long time, the Europeans were able to survive the fighting distance and, in the end, spoke the decisive word.
Czech star Tomas Satoransky with 1.4 seconds left. nailed a difficult and victorious colon from the board from a medium distance, sending the Canadian team to the knockout; there was simply no time to recover once more for the hosts.
🇨🇿 @satoransky deposits it to give the Czech Republic victory over Canada in OT and advance to the #FIBAOQT Final! pic.twitter.com/b6rrI4SFuu
– FIBA (@FIBA) July 3, 2021
Most productive with 31 points. The American Blake Schilb naturalized in the Czech national team and hit up to 7 of 12 three-point shots.
T. Hator, who became a hero, added 18 points, Patrick Auda 16 points and Ondrey Balvin 14 points and even 19 rebounds.
RJ Barret scored 23 points for the fiasco, 22 for Wiggins and 21 for Nickel Alexander-Walker.
The Canadian national team is being coached by Toronto Raptors strategist Nick Nurse.
We remind you that there are four vacancies left in the Tokyo Olympic Games men’s basketball tournament for which teams are fighting in four Olympic qualifiers. Tickets for Japan will only be won by tournament winners.
Lithuania and Slovenia will play the final of the tournament in Kaunas, Serbia and Italy in the Belgrade tournament, and Brazil and Germany in the Split tournament.
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