2023-02-01 08:00:00
The sand city de México received one of the most anticipated duels by basketball fans in this country, the South Bay Lakers face the Capitanes de la Ciudad de México in a duel between the third and fourth place of the western conference and one crucial for each team’s qualifying aspirations.
The game started with the Capitanes dominating the game from the perimeter with Orlando Méndez and Justin Minaya very fine. It was then that the Lakers got into the fight but the good offense of the locals did not allow those from South Bay approached and that was how the Capitanes were left with the first quarter with an advantage of 8 points. The second quarter would maintain a very similar tone to that of the first, but the Lakers began to press with good baskets from Shaquille Harrison and Jay Huff, however, Alfonzo McKinnie and Caio Pacheco, coming from the bench, did not allow the visitors to take the leadership. The Lakers mightn’t connect very well on the court and we went to halftime with a partial score of 61 to 56.
After the break, those led by Ramón Díaz would have their worst quarter of the game, allowing the Lakers’ perimeter game to overcome them in the last minutes of the quarter, making the South Bay they went ahead by 4 points and many scores from Shaquille Harrison and Devin Cannady fell. Already in the last period, the Capitanes regained control of the game with their strong pressure in the paint and a great moment from Rigoberto Mendoza and Gary Clark. With less than two minutes remaining, the Capitanes turned the game around and managed to break away to claim victory. The game would end with a score of 113 to 109 in favor of those from Mexico City.
The players of the game were Mason Jones with 21 points, 4 rebounds and 4 assists and Justin Minaya with 21 points, 3 rebounds and 1 assist. Good game for the Mexicans, Orlando Mendez achieved 75% efficiency from the line of 3 to add 9 points, for his part, Gael Bonilla got 2 points and 5 rebounds.
Next rivals!
With this victory the Mexican team got into second place in the western conference 1 victory away from surpassing the Stockton Kings, who are the leaders. The Captains will go on tour to face 5 visiting games where they will face the Lakeland Magic, Memphis Hustle, Iowa Wolves and Sioux Fall Skyforce with the aim of beginning to secure their ticket to the NBA G-League playoffs.
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