{"id":45662,"date":"1999-07-21T01:43:56","date_gmt":"1999-07-21T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/dr-loses-to-canada-in-basketball\/"},"modified":"1999-07-21T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"1999-07-21T01:43:56","slug":"dr-loses-to-canada-in-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1999\/07\/21\/dr-loses-to-canada-in-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"DR loses to Canada in basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The DR lost to Canada, 81-64 in the Pre-Olympic Trials that are being played in San Juan, Puerto Rico. With this loss, the DR wiped out its chance at being one of two teams to represent the Americas in the Sydney, Australia Olympics. After the game, Luis Felipe Lopez, of the Vancouver Grizzlies of the NBA, admitted that things hadn&#146;t gone as the team expected. &quot;We came to play hard, but things didn&#146;t work out as we expected,&quot; he said. Team player Carlos Payano said that the team never was able to develop the &quot;chemistry&quot; needed to win games. &quot;We have the talent, but it had to pass over to the team. We never achieved the chemistry,&quot; he said. The DR team was put together at last minute and barely had a week to practice as a team.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The DR lost to Canada, 81-64 in the Pre-Olympic Trials that are being played in San Juan, Puerto Rico. With this loss, the DR wiped out its chance at being one of two teams to represent the Americas in the Sydney, Australia Olympics. After the game, Luis Felipe Lopez, of the Vancouver Grizzlies of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1999\/07\/21\/dr-loses-to-canada-in-basketball\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}