The FIBA system is currently underway as a series of Olympic men's basketball qualifiers, with a total of 24 teams playing in four regions. Today entered the third day of competition, but it was on the third day of competition that there were some upsets. Two of the big upsets were the Philippines, currently ranked 37th in the world, beating Latvia, ranked 6th, and the Bahamas, ranked 57th, beating Poland, ranked 15th.
The match between the Philippines and Latvia was played at Latvia's home stadium. At the beginning of the game, the Philippine team was very strong, and beat the Latvian team 8-0 at the beginning. Although the Latvian team was in good offensive form next, the Philippine team Brownlee's hand was completely open, and the Philippine team led Latvia by 16 points 32-16 in the first quarter.
Then the Filipino team played more and more smoothly, reaching as many as 26 points in the third quarter, and also entered the fourth quarter with a 21-point lead. In the fourth quarter, the Latvian team set off a wave of chasing points, and at one point the score was pulled to about 10 points in the middle of the quarter, but it was Brownlee's consecutive scores that shattered the Latvians' hopes of a comeback. In the end, the Philippines defeated Latvia 89-80, and the starting five of the Philippines all scored in double figures, and Brownlee scored a game-high 26 points.
The Bahamas match against Poland was played in the Spanish region. To say that this game is an upset is based on the world rankings of both teams, but the Bahamas have NBA All-Stars like Ayton and major NBA rotation players like Eric Gordon. The Bahamas team did show their own good strength in this game, and suppressed the Polish team throughout the game. Also in the fourth quarter, Poland set off a small wave of chasing points, but Ayton, Gordon and Edgkum Jr. scored to take away the victory, and finally the Bahamas won 90-81 against Poland.
Among them, Ayton had 18 points, 9 rebounds and 1 assist on 7-of-12 shooting; Eric Gordon finished with 12 points, one rebound and five assists on 5-of-6 shooting and 2-of-3 from three-point range; The best performer of the game was Edchcum Jr., who finished with a team-high 21 points, six rebounds and two assists on 7-of-13 shooting and 2-of-4 three-point shooting.
In Greece, New Zealand's narrow 90-86 win over Croatia was not a big upset, after Croatia had beaten Doncic the day before. Webster played well in the game, scoring a team-high 21 points on 8-of-14 shooting, including 3-of-6 from three-point range, along with 2 rebounds and 3 assists. On the Croatian side, Zubac also played well, scoring a double-double of 29 points, 16 rebounds and 2 assists on 12-of-15 shooting, but it was difficult to prevent the team from losing.
Also in the Greek region, the Greek team playing at home defeated the Dominican team bloodlessly to get off to a good start in the Olympic qualifying tournament. Brother Alphabet was full of firepower in this game, playing god-level data, 11 of 11 two-point shots, 1 of 1 three-point shots, 32 points, 2 rebounds and 2 assists in the whole game, and gave the opponent a shocking "hot pot" in the third quarter. Under his leadership, the Greek team shot 23-of-31 from two-point range, shooting 74 percent, and 16 of 31 three-pointers, shooting a terrifying 52 percent. In the end, Greece defeated the Dominican team 109-82.
Spain also played at home, facing African side Angola, and although they also won the event, it was not an easy win. Angola showed great resilience in this game, and Spain only led by three points at 46-43 at halftime. In the first half of the third quarter, Spain went on a 10-3 run to take a 10-point lead, but Angola stubbornly pushed the score to four in the second half. It took Brizzula's back-to-back scoring in the final minute of the third quarter to stretch the deficit to about 10 points.
In the fourth quarter, the Spanish team still maintained the score advantage of about 10 points, and did not let the Angolan team play the climax of chasing points, and finally the Spanish team defeated the Angolan team 89-81 with difficulty. Aldama scored a game-high 24 points, along with eight rebounds and one assist, while Willy Hernandez had a double-double of 22 points, 10 rebounds and one assist, and the two were the only Spanish players to score in double figures.
On the Angolan side, five players scored in double figures, Bangor had 15 points and 9 rebounds, Dundao had 11 points and 3 assists, Fernando had 12 points and 12 rebounds, Sellton had 11 points, 3 rebounds and 3 assists, and Silvio had 14 points, 6 rebounds and 1 assist.
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