Tonight closes the Qualifiers against the Dominican Republic. If he wins, it will not depend on other results. And if he loses?
In front of its people, at the Islas Malvinas Sports Center in Mar del Plata, the Argentine basketball team Their last chip will be played to qualify for the World Cup to be played in Japan and Indonesia from August 25 to September 10.
It will be tonight in front of Dominican Republic by the last date of the second stage of the playoffswhich provide quotas for the best three in each area and the best fourth.
With Canada and the United States already classified, America will define the five remaining places, to which Colombia, Bahamas, Panama and Uruguay will no longer be able to aspire, but those led by Pablo Prigioni.
Following Thursday’s 83-72 win over Canada, Argentina was unable to improve its position in Group E because Venezuela and the Dominican Republic also won. Precisely, the team led by Néstor “Che” García will be the rival of the last game, the one that will determine if the selected one goes to the World Cup without depending on anyone or takes out the calculator.
It is that if they win, Prigioni’s men should not expect another result and they will achieve a classification that lasted until the last game in a team in full renovation.
The importance of this game is such that in the last hours Gabriel Deck (Real Madrid) and Nicolás Laprovittola (Barcelona) traveled from Spain to join the team and be among the 12 that will take the pitch.
Instead, if they lose they will be fourth in the group -with a worse goal difference than Venezuela and the Dominican Republic- and they will have to wait for what happens in group F.
Because? Argentina needs at least one defeat from Mexico with Uruguay in Montevideo, from Puerto Rico with Colombia in Medellín or from Brazil with the United States in Santa Cruz do Sul. If it does not occur, the one classified as the best fourth will be the Brazilian team.
It must be taken into account that, according to FIBA criteria, in the event of finishing tied, the teams will break the tie based on the following criteria: matches won and lost in the stage; difference in points of the matches between the teams involved; greater number of points in matches between them; greater point difference in all group matches; higher number of points in all matches in the group; or, if no difference is established in any of the above, lottery.
Last date schedule
The matches will be played simultaneously on Sunday from 9:10 p.m. (Argentine time).
Group E
Argentina vs Dominican Republic
Panama vs Bahamas
Venezuela vs. Canada
Group F
Colombia vs Puerto Rico
Uruguay vs. Mexico
Brazil vs United States
