EU suffers against Turkey in World Basketball
MADRID, SPAIN (AUG / 31/2014) United States .- scared to go into the break with a disadvantage against Turkey was, but reacted in time to prevail 98-77 on Sunday and chaining his second win in Group C of the World Cup of basketball.
The hostess Spain also won his second victory after defeating the weak Egypt 91-54 Group A.
In the duel of unbeaten Group B beat Croatia 90-85 to Argentina. Puerto Rico remains in the doldrums and that key conceded their second defeat to unexpectedly fall 82-75 to Senegal. Philippines beat Greece 82-70.
Led by 16 points and seven rebounds Bojan Bogdanovic eave Croats now are 2-0. Luis Scola with 30 points and rebounds, was the best of Argentina (1-1).
Senegal made history by getting the first victory of an African team in the World Cup. Gorgui Dieng, power forward for the Minnesota Timberwolves, was the bane of Puerto Rico, scoring 18 points and 13 rebounds recover. Puerto Rico has uphill move to the next step, because now he was forced to beat Greece and Croatia.
Philippines beat Greece 82-70 to share the top of the group with Croatia.
As in his debut against Iran, the Spaniards are not complicated to get rid of Egypt. Serge Ibaka scored 18 points for the hosts, who on Monday will have its first major test when measured against Brazil.
Brazilians (2-0) also had trouble to ship Iran 79-50. Alex Garcia (12 points) and Leandro Barbosa (11) were the top scorers of the team led by Argentine coach Ruben Magnano.
One night after winning by 59 points to Finland, the United States could not breathe easy until the beginning of fourth period. It went into halftime losing 40-35 and Turkey came to be up by six points in the third quarter until the whole NBA stars put the batteries in the rematch of the final for the title of World Istanbul 2010.
Kenneth Faried led USA with 22 points and Anthony Davis scored 19 points, all in the second half.
For the same key, Dominican Republic recovered from losing to Ukraine in the debut and beat New Zealand 76-63 to keep you pinned their chances of advancing. Francisco Garcia was the Dominican figure scoring 29 points.
After his humiliating loss to the United States, Finland beat Ukraine 81-76 and both teams left with 1-1 folio.
In Group D, Slovenia and Lithuania remained on top after beating Mexico and Angola respectively.
Slovenia (2-0) 89-68 dispatched to Mexico (0-2). Zoran Dragic led the Slovenians with 22 points without fail in his eight goal shooting, including four triples. Gustavo Ayon scored 23 points to lead Mexico.
Lithuania (2-0) broke the initial resistance of Angola, which could go into halftime down by three points, and won 75-62. In the other group game, Australia (1-1) beat South Korea 89-55 (0-2)
