Manama, Bahrain – Partizan (SRB) achieved a nail-biting 16-15 victory over Antwerp TOP Desk at the FIBA 3×3 World Tour Manama Masters 2023 hosted by Bahrain Tourism Board and GFH on November 17th, marking the first time in World Tour Masters history. won the championship.
The Serbian side, which came from the preliminary draw, battled through each match and aimed for their first Masters victory with a 7-0 win.
They faced Vienna in the quarterfinals and won a close 19-21 victory over Hangzhou in the semifinals.
In the final, they faced a sharp attacking team from Antwerp, who performed well offensively that day. Partizan got off to a fast start and took a 6-2 lead, but Belgium fought back. The difference in each game was 14 points. Denis Donkor and Jonas Voertz were Antwerp’s attacking giants, but Partizan produced another collective performance.
A tense game needed a reprieve, and Ivan Popovic, who was getting touches from behind the arc throughout the tournament, provided it. His two shots proved decisive as Partizan took a two-point lead with seconds left. Foltz drew a bucket to make the game 16-15 with two seconds left, giving Antwerp the ball on its final possession. The match was not meant to be for the Belgians, as Partizan secured victory in Manama, becoming only the second team in history to go from a qualifying draw to winning the Masters.
Marko Stevanovic was the team’s mainstay, grabbing crucial rebounds, making defensive stops and scoring clutch buckets himself. He led the team in player value of 29.0 and also scored 25 points. For his performance, he was named his MVP of this event.
In individual contests, Fukuda’s Thibault Vervoort won the GFH Shootout Contest and Tony Crosby II won the Maurice Lacroix Dunk Contest.
final ranking
1. Partisan (SRB)
2. Antwerp TOP desk (bell)
3. Hangzhou (China)
4. Marianne Paul mantinga (LTU)
5. Amsterdam high pro (NED)
6. Vienna (AUT)
7. Fukuda (China)
8. Jeddah (Saudi Arabia)
9. San Juan (PUR)
10. Ubu Northeast of Esan (SRB)
11. Refa (BRN)
12. Lausanne Sports LS (Sui)
13. Princeton (USA)
14. Alura (KSA)
The World Tour movement will reach its final destination before the World Tour Finals with the Hong Kong Masters on November 25th and 26th.
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Exciting, urban and innovative, 3×3 is inspired by the various forms of streetball played around the world and is considered the world’s number one urban team sport. The game, run by FIBA, pits his two teams of three players against each other in a basketball half court.
It first achieved international success at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore in 2010 and has since benefited from annual men’s and women’s professional circuits (World Tour and Women’s Series, respectively) and national team competitions. I did.
3×3 was used for the first time in the Olympics at the Tokyo 2020 Games.
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