South Sudan defeated Nice Britain 84-81 at London’s Copper Field Enviornment as they put together for his or her first Olympic Video games in Paris.
Not like Royal Ivey’s facet, GB didn’t qualify for the Paris Olympics and did not bounce again from latest defeats in opposition to Portugal and Argentina.
South Sudan narrowly led the end-to-end encounter 44-42 at half-time and the sport remained tight all through.
Marial Shayok was the guests’ high scorer with 27 factors, adopted by 15 factors from Bul Kuol.
The sport went all the way down to the final play as South Sudan efficiently defended GB’s ultimate assault to disclaim a three-point throw to tie the sport.
It was a special occasion for South Sudan Basketball Federation president Luol Deng, who returned to London, having performed there for Nice Britain on the 2012 Olympic Video games.
The second recreation of this Summer season Sequence on the Copper Field Enviornment takes place on Sunday at 15:00 BST when the Nice Britain ladies’s staff play Germany.
South Sudan will subsequent face america on the O2 Enviornment on 20 July as they proceed their Olympic preparations.
Basketball on the Paris Olympics will run from 27 July-11 August.
There are two medal occasions – males’s and ladies’s – with the boys’s ultimate going down on 10 August and the ladies’s on 11 August.