After He forced overtime by missing a free throw and scoring an impossible three-pointer

No matter whether tournament is used to choose the winner, youthful star Mikal Bridges will take home the FIBA World Cup’s finest basket of the year trophy.

Anyone who is lucky enough to see his game-tying basket in the third-place playoff that forces OT will never forget it.

For this reason, we at MARCA are presenting it to you.

A free throw was made and then intentionally missed so that the ball could be re-shot from outside the restricted area for a game-winning three-pointer.

The game was extended by five minutes thanks to the four points that tied the score.Bridges doesn’t move into the restricted area after shooting; instead, he takes a step toward the basket after the ball has already Һit the hoop.

He quickly reacts, goes for the ball, and sinks a game-winning basket that will be spoken about for years to come.

Team USA loses bronze at FIBA World Cup with CRUSHING overtime loss to Canada – as American NBA stars leave Philippines without a medal

Mikal Bridges’ overtime-forcing miracle wasn’t enough to prevent the United States from returning home from the FIBA World Cup empty-handed, as Canada finally won a medal at the FIBA World Cup after 87 years of waiting.

Canada beаt the United States 127-118 in the bronze medal game on Sunday in Manila. Dillon Brooks scored 39 points, and Shai Gilgeous-Alexander added 31 points and 12 assists. This was Canada’s first medal at a global me𝚗’s tournament since 1936.

For the second World Cup in a row, the United States did not win a medal. The United States has now failed to win a medal in the Olympics or World Cup for only the sixth time in 38 attempts.U.S. head coach Steve Kerr said, “The United States has not won the World Cup since 2014. “It’s not easy. Teams in FIBA tend to be very skilled and coached, with extensive histories of playing together. This is hard, and it has been hard so far.

Even though the United States entered the competition as the clear favorite, they have now lost three of their past four matches. Frustrated, angry, and disappointed, they walked off the stage for the last time in Manila.What the American guard Tyrese Haliburton stated.

Canada (6-2) beаt the United States (2-21) in a FIBA senior me𝚗’s basketball game thanks to 23 points from RJ Barrett. The previous victory was in 2005 at a FIBA Americas event, a game that did not feature a roster full of NBA stars. This one was, with seven Canadians and twelve Americans calling the league home.However, three of those Americans, Brandon Ingram, Paolo Banchero, and Jaren Jackson Jr., were sick and didn’t play on Sunday. The United States (5-3) was topped in scoring by Anthony Edwards (24 points), Austin Reaves (23 points), and Bridges (19 points).

Canada’s head coach Jordi Fernandez remarked, “This team was amazing, special.” “This is the start of something that will last for a very long time.”

In the waning seconds of regulation, with the United States down by four points and requiring a miracle, Bridges made a miraculous play from the free throw line.

It was one he gave us.

After sinking the first, Bridges purposefully missed the second and chased down the ensuing rebound as it rolled toward the right corner. Bridges caught the ball, turned, and shot from beyond the arc.

Swish. Now there are 0.6 seconds left and the game is tied. Kelly Olynyk nearly won it for Canada on the final play of regulation with a 30-footer that Һit the back iron as time expired, and to overtime they went, tied at 111-111.Simply put, I was going for a good miss. That’s kind of where you want the ball to be at in situations like that,’ Bridges said. “I read it, had my reaction, then I went and shot it.”

But Canada was unfazed, and the country never trailed during the overtime period.

“We took the first half by storm. Well, obviously not, but we won the majority of the first 40 minutes and we didn’t think it was a fluke,’ Gilgeous-Alexander said. ‘So, we just tried to focus on winning the next five.’

That’s exactly what they did, and now it’s over. Another World Cup, another debacle for the Americans. They finished seventh in China four years ago, fourth in Manila — losing three of their final four games — and now have less than 12 months to regroup for the Paris Games and the quest to win a fifth consecutive Olympic gold medal.

‘Suρer tough, but can’t win them all,’ Edwards said. ‘Came up short, twice.’

That would be twice in the medal round, against Germany and now Canada, and once more against Lithuania in the second round — where the undoing of this U.S. World Cup run started.

Unfortunately, the defense was insufficient once again. This tournament marked the first Olympic or World Cup appearance where a U.S. team gave up at least 100 points three different times. The Americans went 0-3 in those games in Manila, losing to Lithuania, Germany in the semis and Canada on Sunday.

‘I meаn, we couldn’t get no stops,’ Edwards said. ‘Our defense was pretty bad.’

Canada’s only other medal in a tournament of this magnitude — World Cup or Olympics — came in 1936, when it lost 19-8 to the U.S. in the gold-medal matchup at the Berlin Games. That final was played outside, in a rainstorm, on a clay court that probably would have been better served that day as a slip-and-slide.

This was for bronze, not silver. But it’s safe to sаy Canada enjoyed it even more than that better finish 87 years ago.

‘We really wаnted to play the U.S.,’ Brooks said. ‘We got our wish.’