Highlights: Argentina vs Japan in Men's Basketball Olympic Games (97-77)

Now that they have qualified, the Argentine team is waiting for the draw to find out who will be their opponent in the quarterfinals.

Yudai Baba - 18 points and 7 rebounds

Yuta Watanabe - 13 points and 8 rebounds

Luis Scola - 21 points and 9 rebounds

Facundo Campazzo - 17 points, 11 assists and 7 rebounds

Argentina 97 - 77 Japan

Both teams take their key players off the court.

Good basket from Togashi.

A beautiful play by Laprovittola that ended with Deck's basket for three, forcing the Japanese timeout.

Scola scores another three-ball, practically guaranteeing the Argentine victory.

Bolmaro grabs the rebound and scores two more points. Hachimura dunks on the counterattack.

Less than 5 minutes to the end of the match.

In the race, Campazzo scores another three-ball, but Hachimura responds with the same coin.

Scola notes two more points on the floater, taking advantage of Campazzo's 10th assist. Japan calls timeout.

 Luis Scola hits another three.

Harimoto makes the three ball.

Scola receives from Campazzo and scores two more points.

Argentina 65 - 53 Japan

Argentina 65 - 53 Japan

Timeout Argentina.

FROM THE LOGO! Brussino makes two consecutive three-balls.

Hachimura hits the long shot.

Watanabe hits another three ball.

Watanabe hits the mid-range.

Timeout Japan.

Campazzo hits the three ball.

Daiki Tanaka puts two more points on the scoreboard for the Japanese.

Marcos Delia grabs the offensive rebound and puts two more points in the account.

Marcos Delia scores Argentina's first points in the third period.

Baba and Hachimura score for Japan.

Argentina 46 - 38 Japan

Field Goals: 44% x 34%

2 points: 42% x 45%

3 points: 46% x 15%

Free Throws: 89% x 100%

Rebounds: 23 x 17

Assists: 10 x 7

Turnovers: 7 x 6

Argentina 46 - 38 Japan

Watanabe manages to score the last two points of the first half.

Timeout Argentina.

On the counter-attack, Watanabe dunks.

Star Hui Hachimura's first basket!

Nice basket by Luca Vildoza.

AND ONE! Watanabe with the three point play.

Vildoza hites the two free throws.

Watanabe converts both free throws.

Scola scores another three-ball.

Laprovittola converts both free throws.

Watanabe hits the floater and Vildoza answers with the triple ball for Argentina.

Hiejima scores again for Japan, with ease.

GREAT BLOCK BY GABRIEL DECK!

Scola opens the scoring in the second period.

Argentina 26 - 16 Japan

Argentina 26-16 Japan

Yudai Baba scores again for the hosts.

Brussino extends the Argentinean advantage.

Marcos Delia has half of Argentina's points and forces a new Japanese timeout.

Beautiful Argentine counter-attack, which ends in Delia's simple tray.

Facundo Campazzo converts two free throws.

Marcos Delia converts both free throws.

Marcos Delia scores on the tray. Timeout Japan

ANOTHER THREE FROM SCOLA!

Daiki Tanaka converts both free throws.

Laprovittola and Scola score for three points.

Baba take the lead for Japan.

Yudai Baba scores for the Japanese.

Campazzo scores for three.

Argentina vs Japan

Daiki Tanaka, Makoto Hiejima, Yudai Baba, Yuta Watanabe, and Rui Hachimura.

Facundo Campazzo, Nicolas Laprovittola, Nicolas Brussino, Luis Scola and Marcos Delia.

Roberto Vazquez (PUR), Martins Kozlovskis (LAT) and Michael Weiland (CAN).

Daiki Tanaka, Yudai Baba, Rui Hachimura, Gavin Earl Edwards and Yuta Watanabe.

Facundo Campazzo, Nicolas Laprovittola, Patricio Garino, Luis Scola, and Marcos Delia.

On the other hand, the Japanese team, coached by Julio Lamas, puts its chips on Rui Hachimura, the team's star player, who has 27 points per game, and Yuta Watanabe, with 18 points and 7.5 rebounds.

The team led by Sergio Hernandez, captained by veteran Luis Scola, can also count on the quality of Campazzo and Laprovittola to beat the Japanese and advance to the quarterfinals. Scola, by the way, is the team's leading scorer in Tokyo, with an average of 18.5 points per game.

Defeated in the two matches they have played so far, the two teams duel soon in search of qualification between the two best third-placed teams. On balance, as the Czech Republic is at -49, whoever wins will advance to the next round.

1- Slovenia - 4 points
2- Spain - 4 points
3- Argentina - 2 points
4- Japan - 2 points

Argentina vs Japan - 12:40am - Saitama Super Arena

Spain vs Slovenia - 4:40am - Saitama Super Arena

We are now covering Argentina-Japan in the third round of the Men's Basketball Group C at the Tokyo Olympics. The ball will go up this Sunday (01), at 12:40 am, at the Saitama Super Arena, in Saitama, which is part of Tokyo. Come join us!