Nate Pierre-Louis

Malique Lewis

Maozinha Pereira

Ethan Thompson

Iverson Molinar

Diego Bernard

Alexey Borges

Ruan Miranda

Phillip Wheeler

Michael Carter-Williams

Kenneth Faried

Janiel "JJ" Romer Rosario

Jared Rhoden

Tosan Evbuomwan

Nathan Knight

Stanley Umude

Zavier Simpson

David Nwaba

Buddy Boeheim

Malcolm Cazalon

ShawnDre Jones

Treveon Graham

Nate Roberts

Ryan Turell

Chandler Vaudrin

Julian Scott

Cameron Gelinas

Stacie Blow

ORLANDO – The Motor City Cruise were defeated by the Mexico City Capitanes in today’s contest, 115-100.
Nathan Knight made his first start in a Cruise uniform today and secured a double-double. He scored 28 points and grabbed 10 rebounds. Defensively, he blocked two shots. Tosan Evbuomwan followed Knight’s performance with double-double for himself. Evbuomwan scored 24 points and grabbed 17 rebounds.
Ethan Thompson scored 31 points to lead the way for Mexico City. He shot 12-21 from the floor and stole the ball three times on defense. Maozinha Pereira followed up with securing a double-double. Pereira scored 20 points and grabbed 12 rebounds.
The Capitanes got off to a hot start early after outscoring the Cruise, 34-18 in the first quarter. Mexico City shot 14-25 (56%) from the field and held Motor City to 33.3%.
Nathan Knight scored 13 points in the second quarter, striving to get Motor City back in the game. However, Mexico City’s offense was able to keep up with Knight’s performance to score three more points than Motor City in the second quarter. Motor City trailed the Capitanes, 67-48 at the half.
The Cruise outscored Mexico City 28-21 in the third. Tosan Evbuomwan and Nathan Knight finished with seven points apiece and combined a total of 11 rebounds, heading into the final quarter.
After a back-and-forth performance by both teams in the final minutes, Motor City was unable to find a run which helped Mexico City secure the win.
The Motor City Cruise and Mexico City Capitanes both finished with a 9-7 record to end their Winter Showcase Cup play. The Motor City Cruise are now set to face the Windy City Bulls on December 27 to begin the NBA G League Regular Season. Tip-off is slated for 7:00p.m. ET at Wayne State Fieldhouse (Detroit, MI). The game can be seen on “The PREP” live stream at <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.theprepsports.com/__;!!PMETyfE!LNePkrM5KgR_v5cWOAjfKynt4_6o2z5qF4REFEFVcpBEFY_9zGeArcFvJJTN6gVJPA0qXd2k-3aWfQ$" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.theprepsports.com/</a> and at <a href="https://gleague.nba.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://gleague.nba.com/</a>.

Cruise Fall To Capitanes In Showcase Finale

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Showcase Cup Standings

Jump Ball Knight vs. Pereira: Tip to Evbuomwan

Rhoden 13' Driving Floating Jump Shot (2 PTS) (Simpson 1 AST)

Pereira 3' Cutting Layup Shot (2 PTS) (Thompson 1 AST)

Evbuomwan Out of Bounds Lost Ball Turnover (P2.T3)

Molinar 3' Running Jump Shot (4 PTS) (Thompson 2 AST)

Pereira 29' 3PT Jump Shot (5 PTS) (Molinar 1 AST)

Thompson 3' Running Layup (2 PTS) (Lewis 1 AST)

Pereira 4' Running Dunk (7 PTS) (Bernard 1 AST)

Lewis 3' Driving Layup (2 PTS) (Molinar 2 AST)

Evbuomwan 1' Cutting Layup Shot (4 PTS) (Rhoden 1 AST)

Rhoden 4' Hook Shot (4 PTS) (Evbuomwan 1 AST)

Miranda 3' Driving Bank Hook Shot (2 PTS) (Borges 1 AST)

Cazalon 25' 3PT Jump Shot (3 PTS) (Simpson 2 AST)

Bernard 24' 3PT Jump Shot (3 PTS) (Wheeler 1 AST)

Mexico City Capitanes

Motor City Cruise

Mexico City Capitanes @ Motor City Cruise

Mexico City Capitanes @
Motor City Cruise