Dillon Brooks scored 39 factors and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander added 31 factors and 12 assists on Sunday, serving to Canada seize the bronze medal of the FIFA World Cup with a 127-118 additional time victory over the USA in Manila, Philippines.
RJ Barrett contributed 23 factors for Canada (6-2), which posted its first medal at a world males’s event since 1936. The Canadians dropped a 19-8 determination to the U.S. in a gold-medal recreation that was performed outdoors in a rainstorm on the Berlin Olympics.
Anthony Edwards scored 24 factors and Austin Reaves added 23 for the People (5-3), who did not medal for the second straight World Cup after dropping three of their remaining 4 video games within the event.
“The USA hasn’t received the World Cup since 2014,” U.S. coach Steve Kerr stated. “It is laborious. These groups in FIBA are actually good, well-coached, they have continuity they usually’ve performed collectively for a very long time. That is troublesome and it has been troublesome already.”
Mikal Bridges had 19 factors, highlighted by a four-point surge within the remaining 4.2 seconds of regulation to ship the sport to additional time. He made a free throw and deliberately missed the second earlier than operating down the free ball. He lofted up a 3-pointer that cast a tie at 111-111.
“Simply tried to overlook it proper. That is type of the place you need the ball to be at in conditions like that,” Bridges stated. “Simply learn and react … went and shot it.”
The USA wasn’t at full energy, enjoying with out Brandon Ingram, Paolo Banchero and Jaren Jackson Jr. because of sickness.
Each groups certified for the 2024 Paris Olympics, representing the Americas area.
Within the gold-medal recreation, Dennis Schroder scored 28 factors and Franz Wagner added 19 as Germany received its first-ever World Cup, defeating Serbia 83-77.
—Area Degree Media
