Former Torrejón stalwarts have great FIBA window performances
Another FIBA window is completed worldwide in the different continents they compete for the respective qualifiers to Eurobasket, AmeriCup, FIBA Asia or Afrobasket, and we have had a Torrejonero presence in some national teams. We highlight them here:
We start with Spain, which has once again qualified for the Eurobasket, as second place in Group A. Record of 4-2 in the standings, and with two victories suffered but at the same time satisfactory against Poland (88-89), and against Israel (78- 73). In this window he was not summoned, but Santi Yusta has been a factor in our national team.
The one from the patio and player of Lenovo Tenerife in ACB is averaging 6 points, 1.5 rebounds and 2 assists in 16minutes on the court for the FIBA world champions.
Some of our players did have action in this window FIBA. We review the performance of the torrejoneros in the Afrobasket. Kingsley Obiekwe Sam was one step away from history with Equatorial Guinea, which fell (71-80) to Guinea and could not achieve the goal of qualifying for the first time ever to the Afrobasket. Our "King" had 13 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists in the tight loss.
The hometown guy and layer of Albacete Basket in LEB Plata was the best of his team in general, averaging 18.4 points (1), 5.8 rebounds (2), and 2.2 assists (2) per game for his national team.
In Senegal, Pape Badji had a split decision with a good victory (84-43) over Mozambique, but also a heavy loss to 82-51) Angola. The Senegalese qualified as one of 16 teams. 6 points and 4 rebounds in the first of the games, and registered 7 points and 7 rebounds in 15 minutes, vs Angola.
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