Puerto Rico won CAC games, good talents seen during the competition

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Central American and Caribbean were held last week in Colombian city Barranquilla and Puerto Rico national team won the competition in basketball.
Puerto Rico dominated the competition, winning all five games by average 10,8 points difference. Host nation Colombia won Silver medal, while Bronze is going to Cuba.

Experienced Colombian shooting guard Michaell Jackson was best player of the entire competition, with 18,5 points, 9,5 rebounds and 2,3 steals per game. But, we will keep our focus on young prospects, born 1997 or younger, that left good mark in Barranquilla.

We will begin with Colombian point guard, 178 cm tall Hansel Atencia. He was his nation's top scorer with 19,3 points per game, adding 2,5 rebounds, 2,8 steals and 0,8 assists, while shooting fantastic 42% for three. Atencia attended The Master's College last two years and is currently entering his Senior year. He already played for Colombia at FIBA AmeiCup and World Cup Qualifiers.

Jahmiah Simmons is forward from Division 1 college North Texas and he is playing for US Virgin Islands. During CAC games Simmons averaged 16,7 points and 7,0 rebounds, but his team lost all three games. On the other hand, he played solid minutes at better competition FIBA AmeriCup in 2017, where his team won 4th place.

Another forward on this list is Cuban Yoanki Mensia, last season member of Argentinian Liga A side Gimnasia Indalo. Mensia played all 4 games at Barranquilla, where he averaged 6,2 points and 6,0 rebounds. He also played for Cuba national team at World Cup Qualifiers.

Amir Nesbitt was youngest player at CAC games. This 2001 born guard averaged pretty solid 9,0 points, 4,3 rebounds and 1,0 steal per game for US Virgin Islands.

Only center on this list is Bahamas 2000 born, 203 cm tall prospect Samuel Hunter. He played limited minutes, only 9,3 per game and showed some fine attacking mode, averaging 4,8 points per game, while grabbing 1,5 rebounds.