Dominican Republic’s Karl-Anthony Cities. -MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.web
MANILA, Philippines—Dominican Republic overcame Karl-Anthony Cities’ foul hassle and held off Angola, 75-67, to brush Group A of the 2023 Fiba World Cup at Araneta Coliseum on Tuesday.
The Dominicans’ win additionally signifies that Gilas Pilipinas nonetheless has an opportunity to advance to the second spherical if it finally ends up beating Italy by at the very least 13 factors later at 8 p.m.
Cities, who already had three fouls within the first quarter, stated the win confirmed what the Dominican Republic is able to.
“[We’re] simply tremendous excited to get the dub. Tremendous excited to make the nation proud. I do know lots of people didn’t anticipate us to do that however we anticipated ourselves to do it so I’m very completely satisfied that we get to shock the world and present the world what we’ve been engaged on,” he stated after ending with eight factors and two rebounds.
Dominican Republic celebrates after beating Angola and sweeping Group A within the Fiba World Cup. -MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.web
“[It’s] win. Good win for the nation. The Dominican Republic obtained to be actually completely satisfied concerning the performs we did on the market. We’re making them proud, I really feel it.”
It appeared like the sport was just about within the bag for the Dominicans on the 5:13 mark of the fourth when Angola star Bruno Fernand fouled out of the sport and Andres Feliz put Dominican Republic forward 65-59 with three free throws.
The Angolans, nonetheless, responded and knotted the rely at 65 with nonetheless 2:52 left.
However Victor Liz and Feliz got here via down the stretch for the Dominicans with back-to-back baskets to place away the Angolans.
Silvio De Sousa led Angola, which beat Gilas, 80-70, on Sunday, with 19 factors and 9 rebounds.
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