{"id":60901,"date":"2015-09-08T12:50:14","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T04:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=60901"},"modified":"2016-05-31T10:18:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T14:18:28","slug":"wiggins-leads-canada-in-109-82-win-over-uruguay-at-fiba-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/09\/08\/wiggins-leads-canada-in-109-82-win-over-uruguay-at-fiba-americas\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiggins leads Canada in 109-82 win over Uruguay at FIBA Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_60905\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60905\" style=\"width: 604px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Andrew_Wiggins_2014.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-60905\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Andrew_Wiggins_2014-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Wiggins (Photo from Wikipedia\/Brent Burford)\" width=\"604\" height=\"906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Andrew_Wiggins_2014-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Andrew_Wiggins_2014-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Andrew_Wiggins_2014.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andrew Wiggins (Photo from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Andrew_Wiggins\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>\/Brent Burford)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MEXICO CITY \u2013 Minnesota Timberwolves guard and former Kansas Jayhawks star Andrew Wiggins is used to playing in packed stadiums.<\/p>\n<p>So when he takes the court against host Mexico with the rest of the Canadian men\u2019s basketball team Tuesday night at the FIBA Americas Championship, he\u2019ll be ready.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel like big crowds and crazy fans, that gets me going, it gets me motivated,\u201d Wiggins said following Canada\u2019s 109-82 win over Uruguay Monday night in second-round action at the Olympic qualifying tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Wiggins scored 11 of his 18 points in the third quarter to lead Canada, which got double-digit points from seven different players.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Nicholson poured in 15 points with 10 rebounds off the bench as the Canadians won their fifth straight game at the tournament. Nik Stauskas had 14 points, Brady Heslip added 13, Melvin Ejim had 11 and Anthony Bennett and Phil Scrubb chipped in 10 apiece.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe keep saying that we\u2019re a deep team,\u201d said Canadian coach Jay Triano. \u201cWhen someone may not be having a good game, or gets into foul trouble or gets injured&#8230; someone else has an opportunity to step up and those two guys (Ejim and Nicholson) really stepped up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nicolas Borsellino led Uruguay with 15 points.<\/p>\n<p>Canada plays Mexico on Tuesday night before closing out the second round of group play against the Dominican Republic on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know every time in the international game that you play a team in their home country it\u2019s loud, it\u2019s an environment that you don\u2019t really see too often in North America, and we\u2019re excited for the opportunity,\u201d Triano said. \u201cWe\u2019ve had the opportunity to grow as a team and I don\u2019t know if the timing could be better right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The top two teams at the tournament qualify for next summer\u2019s Olympic Games in Rio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY \u2013 Minnesota Timberwolves guard and former Kansas Jayhawks star Andrew Wiggins is used to playing in packed stadiums. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":60905,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-60901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-original","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}