With a great performance in the second and third quarters, the representative of the The Mexican team managed to beat Cuba by a score of 82 to 72, in the qualifiers for the FIBA World Cup 2023.
The game started evenly for both teams, where neither was able to impose conditions, but it would be in the second quarter that those led by Omar Quintero would begin to play better with Gabriel Giron Jr. and Orlando Méndez leading the offense. Before the break the Mexicans would leave with an advantage of 2 points.
Then the second half would come when the 12 Warriors would come out to impose conditions, where they would appear Paul Stoll, daniel friend and Fabian Jaimes to give Mexico an important advantage of 11 points. For the last quarter, it seemed that the response of the Cuban team was coming, but Mexico managed to impose its pace of play and did not allow the Island team to reduce the advantage to finish with a victory of 82 to 72 for Mexico.
The player of the match was Gabriel Giron Jr. with 23 points, 3 assists and 1 steal, followed by Orlando Mendez with 19 points, 3 rebounds, 3 assists and 4 steals.
The Mexican basketball representative will travel to Washington to measure up to his peer United States, in a duel in which, if they achieve victory and a defeat for Cuba against Puerto Rico, they would be classified to the next round of the qualifying round heading to the FIBA World Cup 2023. Remember that Mexico defeated Team USA last November, so a very important duel awaits us, which they can continue at the sign of VAVEL this Sunday at 12 noon (Mexico City time).
