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Golden State Warriors: World Cup ends in brutal fashion for Lester Quinones

By Peter O'Keefe

QUEZON CITY, LUZON, PHILIPPINES - 2023/09/03: Lester Quinones (L) of Dominican Republic basketball team and Aleksa Avramovic (R) of Serbia men basketball team are seen in action during the FIBA Men's Basketball World Cup 2023 match between Dominican Republic and Serbia held at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City. Final score Serbia 112:79 Dominican Republic. (Photo by Luis Veniegra/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
QUEZON CITY, LUZON, PHILIPPINES - 2023/09/03: Lester Quinones (L) of Dominican Republic basketball team and Aleksa Avramovic (R) of Serbia men basketball team are seen in action during the FIBA Men's Basketball World Cup 2023 match between Dominican Republic and Serbia held at the Araneta Coliseum in Quezon City. Final score Serbia 112:79 Dominican Republic. (Photo by Luis Veniegra/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) /
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Golden State Warriors’ guard Lester Quinones has had his World Cup campaign halted in brutal fashion, with the Dominican Republic soundly beaten 112-79 by a ruthless Serbian team on Sunday.

Needing a win to advance to the quarter-finals, the Dominicans were down by 14 after the opening period and 21 by half-time against a Serbian side led by 20 points from Atlanta Hawks’ guard Bogdan Bogdanovic.

Golden State Warriors’ two-way contracted player Lester Quinones had 11 points in his final game at the 2023 FIBA World Cup.

Quinones was more productive than at times earlier in the tournament, but the same shooting struggles continued in what was a far from ideal World Cup campaign for the 22-year-old on a personal level.

He was thrust back into a starting role after his best game of the tournament against Puerto Rico on Friday, finishing the game against Serbia with 11 points, two rebounds and two assists on 4-for-14 shooting and 1-for-6 from three-point range.

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Minnesota Timberwolves’ big man Karl-Anthony Towns was again the unsurprising stand out from a Dominican perspective, finishing with 25 points, seven rebounds and three assists in the 33-point defeat.

Quinones finished the tournament by averaging 7.0 points, 2.2 rebounds and 0.4 assists in 17 minutes per game. He shot just 27% from the field, 15% from three-point range, and recorded 1.6 turnovers per game.

After averaging over 21 points for Golden State in the team’s Summer League campaign in Las Vegas, the World Cup will surely prove a motivational factor for Quinones who enters a pivotal second season in the NBA.

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