The Puerto Rico team has showed a lot of character in this tournament coming from behind to beat Iran and then putting up a fight against Spain going down by 63-73.
The Tunisian team lost their opening game and then went on to win their second game against Iran 79-67. .
Here is a look in the game
Match Timing: September 4, @ 02:00 PM IST
Venue – Guangzhou, Guangzhou Gymnasium
Capacity- 10,000
Puerto Rico are going into this game as a must win game and will be relying on players like Jorge Bryan Diaz and Alexander Franklin to produce the goods and Devon Collier and Gian Clavell to come off the bench and impact the game in the way they did against spain.
Puerto Rico squad for the World Cup:
Puerto Rico: Isaiah Pineiro, Ramon Clemente, Devon Collier, Gary Browne, Jorge Bryan, Angel Rodriguez, Gian Clavell, David Huertas, Renaldo Balkman, Alexander Franklin, Christopher Brady, Javier Mojica
The Tunisian team is looking at the likes of Makram, Salah and Michael Roll to repeat their heroics from the previous game and feature from the start and players like Ziyed and Nizar to be their super subs and impact come in to make cameo appearances as Tunisia is a team which likes to work with a settled combination.
Omer Abada, Ziyed Chennoufi, Mourad El Mabrouk, Omar Mouhli, Mohamed Hadidane, Mokhtar Ghyaza, Makram Ben Romdhane, Mohamed Abbassi, Michael Roll, Radhouane, Salah Mejri, Nizar Knioua.
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PUR – Gary Browne, David Huertas, Isaiah Pinerio, Renaldo Balkman, Jorge Diaz
TUN – Michale Roll, Mourad El Mabrouk, Mohamed Hadidane Makram Ben Romdhane, Salah Mejri
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Tunisia –
Mohamed Hadidane Makram
His stats in the previous game were
Minutes – 38.03
Points – 16
Assists – 5
Rebounds – 6
His stats in the previous game were
Minutes – 37:24
Points – 16
Assists – 5
Rebounds – 4
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Gary Browne
His stats in the previous game were
Minutes – 22:11
Points – 11
Assists – 6
Rebounds – 4
David Huertas
His stats in the previous game were
Minutes – 28:43
Points – 7
Assists – 2
Rebounds – 2
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The game is expected to be a close one and Puerto Rico are expected to win the game.