Canada sets new Basketball World Cup assists record

Canada head coach Jordi Fernandez mentioned “sharing is caring” after his workforce set a brand new Basketball World Cup single-game file of 44 assists in a blowout win over Lebanon on Sunday.

The Canadians thrashed their opponents 128-73 to underline their title credentials after opening their marketing campaign with a press release win over France.

All 11 Canada gamers who noticed sport time in opposition to Lebanon registered at the very least one help, and the workforce’s whole of 44 was the best in a single World Cup sport for the reason that information was first formally recorded in 1994.

That beat the earlier better of 37 held collectively by Canada and Serbia, and Fernandez mentioned he was pleased with his gamers’ unselfish perspective.

“It just shows that sharing is caring and these guys were ready to play the right way, play with a pass,” mentioned the Spaniard.

“In games like this, teams have the tendency for players to do it on their own and try to dribble too much.”

Trae Bell-Haynes led the way in which with eight assists, adopted by Nickeil Alexander-Walker on seven and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, Kelly Olynyk and Phil Scrubb on 5 every.

RJ Barrett led the workforce in scoring with 17 factors – certainly one of 9 gamers to hit double figures.

Canada laid down a marker with its opening 95-65 win over France and Bell-Haynes mentioned he was “super-excited that we kept our momentum” in opposition to Lebanon.

“We talked about making sure that there wasn’t any fall-off, and I think we did a good job,” he mentioned.

“Guys’ confidence is high and you could see that everyone was playing well, playing free.”

This yr’s match is being held in Indonesia, the Philippines and Japan.