Canada finished fourth at the FIBA Men’s AmeriCup basketball championship on Sunday after dropping a 9-85 decision to the United States in the battle for bronze.<\/p>\n
The result marks Canada’s second straight fourth-place AmeriCup finish.<\/p>\n
The Canadians started strong Sunday and took a five-point lead in the first quarter before Jahmius Ramsey hit a three-point shot to put the Americans up 15-12.<\/p>\n
The U.S. didn’t fall behind again, despite getting outscored by Canada in both the third and fourth quarters.<\/p>\n
“Offensively, we got better as the game went on, just not enough,” said Canada’s head coach Nathaniel Mitchell.<\/p>\n
The team hit 52 per cent of their shots on Sunday, and just 17.7 per cent of their three-point attempts.<\/p>\n
“We gotta figure out a way to win even when we’re not playing well,” Mitchell said. “We didn’t do that tonight.”<\/p>\n
Javonte Smart and Tyler Cavanaugh each contributed a game-high 21 points for the Americans.<\/p>\n
Marcus Carr had 16 points, four rebounds and seven assists for Canada, while Mfiondu Kabengele added 16 points and seven rebounds.<\/p>\n
The Canadians went unbeaten in the tournament until the semifinals where they lost to Argentina.<\/p>\n
The run will help the team build its foundation for the future as it works toward the 2028 Olympics in L.A., Mitchell said.<\/p>\n
“We’re proud of the development, it’s just a disappointing result,” he said. “Every time we step out as Canada, we expect to win.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Canada finished fourth at the FIBA Men’s AmeriCup basketball championship on Sunday after dropping a 9-85 decision to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-109805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}