TORONTO — It was an unassuming moment that represented much more for a group trying to figure each other out with little time to do so.

Michael Nwoko and Aden Holloway synced up a double-team that forced a timely second-quarter turnover for the Canadian men’s under-23 squad and, without any communication, instantly bumped chests in celebration of their effort.

An interaction that mattered because after Canada got upset by Brazil in its GLOBL JAM opener on Wednesday, coach Dave Smart acknowledged a lack of trust between his players — stemming from a short camp and new faces — as part of the surprising outcome.

So, when moments like Nwoko and Holloway linking up defensively, or when they connected for an alley-oop jam to give Canada a lead at the end of the first, kept happening on Thursd

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