World Basketball News: Oklahoma City Thunder basketball player Shai Gilgeous-Alexander successfully led Canada to overcome Latvia's resistance in the group stage of the 2023 FIBA ​​World Cup on Tuesday (29/8), local time. SGA brought Canada a crushing victory with a final score of 101-75.

The match which took place at the Indonesia Arena was close and exciting from the first minute until the half-time break. The two teams exchanged attacks to collect as many points as possible. Canada, which had fallen behind at the start of the match, then recovered and took the advantage with a tight score of 43-42 at the break. At the start of the second half, Canada broke loose and managed to escape Latvian pursuit. Jordi Fernandez's team then won decisively with a margin of more than 20 points.

It was Shai Gilgeous-Alexander who was effective in this important match. The Canadian pillar managed to score 27 points in just 31 minutes of play on the court. Besides SGA, RJ Barrett also had a strong performance with 22 points and 5 more rebounds.

With this victory, Canada is assured of emerging as the winners of Group H. They were perfect in all 3 group stage matches of the FIBA ​​World Cup 2023 and were completely undefeated. Before securing an important victory against Latvia, Canada also had a crushing victory against France and Lebanon. With a strong and balanced lineup of players, Canada should now be a strong candidate for the team to become champions.

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