{"id":27941,"date":"2008-09-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/arroyo-and-puerto-rico-wins-gold\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T08:24:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T05:24:39","slug":"arroyo-and-puerto-rico-wins-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/arroyo-and-puerto-rico-wins-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Arroyo and Puerto Rico wins gold"},"content":{"rendered":"

Puerto Rico won Gold at the 2008 Centrobasket Tournament by defeating US Virgin Islands<\/st1:place> 87-70 in<\/st1:metricconverter> the final game of the 2008 Centrobasket Tournament. This was their ninth title and their third in the last five editions. All three of them were in Mexican territory.<\/SPAN><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

Carlos Arroyo, the new point guard of Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv, scored 15 points and dished 6 assists in 39 minutes for Puerto Rico<\/st1:place>. <\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

Puerto Rico<\/SPAN><\/st1:place> made 15 of their 27 attempts from three point range led by Carmelo Lee who made 5 of them in 7 and Carlos Arroyo with five in ten.<\/SPAN><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

The first quarter was close as the USVI played physical against Barea but Angelo Reyes made 7 points to lead Puerto Rico<\/st1:place> 25-20.<\/SPAN><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

US<\/SPAN><\/st1:country-region> Virgin Islands<\/st1:place> never gave up and won the second quarter 18-17 to leave halftime down 42-38.<\/SPAN><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

Puerto Rico<\/SPAN><\/st1:place> sealed the deal in the second half winning the third quarter 19-16 to have a 61-54 lead. Their lead was not huge but they continued to score from long range to get the win.<\/SPAN><\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

Lee led Puerto Rico<\/st1:place> with 21 points while Jose Barea and Carlos Arroyo netted 15 points each.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>

Arroyo will come to Israel<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> with his family in the next week.<\/o:p><\/SPAN><\/P>


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