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Gabriel Deck Leads Argentina Past the United States to Reach AmeriCup Finals

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Gabriel Deck has helped Argentina take down the defending champions…

The 27-year-old Argentine professional basketball player scored 30 points to lead Argentina past the reigning champion USA Basketball team 82-73 in the AmeriCup semifinals.

Gabriel DeckNicolás Laprovittola added 18 points to help the Argentina team advance to the finals.

It was a rematch of the gold-medal game from the most recent AmeriCup tournament in 2017, a game in which the U.S. prevailed.

Not this time, not after Argentina outscored the Americans — a team composed of players who have been in the G League or on internationally based teams — 17-7 in the final 4:59.

“For sure, a lot of credit to Argentina and [coach Pablo Prigioni],” U.S. coach Alex Jensen said. “It’s a good team, veteran team, a lot of good players, a lot of different weapons and they did a great job in the end. We made our runs. They did a good job taking it up another notch and we lost our patience.”

Argentina will now play Brazil, who beat Canada in the other semifinal, on Sunday for the gold; Canada plays the U.S. earlier Sunday for bronze.

Norris Cole‘s layup with 5:12 left put the U.S. up 66-65, but that would be the last lead for the Americans.

“This is a good learning experience for our team,” Cole said. “And we’ll learn from it.”

Cole led the U.S. with 18 points and Zylan Cheatham added 10 for the Americans, who got to the line only 10 times — compared with 29 for Argentina.

Facundo Campazzo scored 10 for Argentina, which lost the 2017 AmeriCup final to the U.S. 81-76. Argentina led for 33 of the game’s 40 minutes.

Paul Stoll Helps Lead Mexico to Historic Win Over United States at FIBA AmeriCup

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Paul Stoll has helped Mexico beat the U.S.

The 36-year-old Mexican American professional basketball player, who plays for Hapoel Tel Aviv of the Israeli Premier League, scored 15 points and had nine assists to help Mexico defeat the U.S. 73-67 on Friday in the opening game of Group C play for both teams at the FIBA AmeriCup.

Paul StollThe victory is Mexico’s first ever against the United States at the AmeriCup.

Fabian James added 13 points and 10 rebounds for Mexico.

Jeremy Pargo led the U.S. with 14 points. Norris Cole scored 11 and Gary Clark grabbed 12 rebounds for the Americans.

Both teams shot 39%. But the U.S. committed 18 turnovers to Mexico’s 13, and was whistled for 22 fouls to Mexico’s 15.

The loss doesn’t knock the U.S. out of contention, though certainly puts the pressure on the Americans going into their final two games in the group stage.

There are 12 teams at AmeriCup, broken into three groups of four. The top two teams from each group are guaranteed berths in the quarterfinals, as well as two of the three third-place teams.

That means the U.S. would still likely reach the quarterfinals with wins in its two remaining group games, and would even have a chance by going 1-1 in those contests.

The U.S. is using a roster composed of players who were most recently on either G League teams or international clubs.

The AmeriCup event is separate from the ongoing qualifying for next year’s Basketball World Cup – which serves as a primary path for teams to earn a spot in the field for the 2024 Paris Games.