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Nine of Team Canada players scored in double digits against Lebanon in the FIBA World Cup 2023. Canada also set a new World Cup record with 44 assists.

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Canada put on an offensive clinic in their second FIBA World Cup 2023 game against Lebanon. Team Canada took their opponents apart, winning a game by 55 points, 128-73.

Canada had 100 points scored after three quarters. Jordi Fernandez's team knocked down 18 three-pointers in 30 attempts (60%), nailed 32 out of 40 two-pointers (80%), and dished out a record-breaking amount of 44 assists.

It was only five years ago that Canada set the previous high in assists made with 37 against Jordan to share the previous high mark with Serbia.

However, they breezed past that total with an impressive display at the Indonesia Arena to become the first team to register 40+ assists in a single game at the World Cup since the data was officially recorded from 1994.

Nine of Canada's players scored in double digits. RJ Barrett was the top scorer for the winners, dropping 17 points in 20 minutes.

Team Canada came 12 points short of making the Top 5 in biggest-margin wins in World Cup history. The Soviet Union, which ranks fifth, won against Colombia in 1982 by 67 points.

Anyway, Canada registered the biggest victory in the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023.

Canada: RJ Barrett 17, Trae Bell-Haynes 15, Melvin Ejim 13, Zach Edey 12, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander 12, Kelly Olynyk 12, Nickeil Alexander-Walker 12, Kyle Alexander 10, Dillon Brooks 10, Dwight Powell 9.

Lebanon:Omari Rasulala Spellman 16, Karim Zeinoun 15, Ali Haidar 11.

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