After the complicated victory against Venezuela, the Argentine basketball team will visit Panama this Sunday in the last match of the first phase of group A of the South American Qualifier for the 2023 World Cup in the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia. The match will take place from 7:10 p.m. in Panama City, broadcast by TyC Sports.
Argentina has a record of four wins and one loss, but comes with high motivation for the hard-fought 69-66 win over Venezuela after overcoming a 14-point deficit midway through the third quarter.
“I feel like we did what we had to do, which is win. We have a very big jersey and we had to respect the event, so that was what we had to do. It cost us a lot, three quarters, but we were there. In modern basketball , 10, 12, 14 or 15 points is not an advantage”, analyzed the coach of Argentina, Néstor García, after Thursday’s victory.
The match against Panama, which has a 2-3 record, will be important for the national team, which has already secured its passage to the next phase, with the aim of dragging a greater number of points ahead of the next round, where will measure with the teams from zone C, from which Canada and the Dominican Republic have already passed and the Bahamas or the Virgin Islands remain.
In the second round there will be two zones of six selected in each one, which will face each other in the windows of August and November of this year and February 2023 to define the three places per group, to which the best fourth will be added to give a total of seven qualifiers.
