Lorenzo Brown, Núñez and Alderete, news on the list to prepare for the Eurobasket
Among the 22 chosen are the NBA Juancho Hernangómez (Utah Jazz), Willy Hernangómez (New Orleans Pelicans) and Usman Garuba (Houston Rockets),
The base Lorenzo Brownnationalized at the beginning of the month, and the recent champions of Europe sub’20 John Nunez y Hector Alderete are among the 22 summoned by the national coach, Sergio Scariolofor the preparation of Eurobasket 2022.
The list, without Barcelona players, includes the NBA Juancho Hernangómez (Utah Jazz), Willy Hernangomez (New Orleans Pelicans) y Usman Garuba (Houston Rockets), although the incorporation to the work of the latter, the same as that of the madridista Alberto Abaldewill depend on the evolution of their respective injuries, reported the Spanish Basketball Federation (FEB).
Browna player who belonged to Unics Kazan born in 1990 in Roswell (New Mexico, United States), was naturalized by naturalization letter on July 5, a fact that the FEB appreciated since it will help alleviate losses of “essential” players for the team, such as Ricky Rubio due to injury and Sergio Rodriguez for his withdrawal.
The group, with the world champions in 2019 Rudy Fernandez, Sergio Llull y Quino Colomwill meet in Madrid next Monday the 1st to start the concentration prior to the Eurobasket, which will be played between the 1st and the 18th of September in Germany, Czech Republic, Georgia and Italy.
Starting on September 1, Spain will play the group stage in Tbilisi (Georgia) against Bulgaria, Georgia, Belgium, Montenegro and Turkey.
Before the Eurobasket the team will face Greece in Athens (August 9) and Madrid (August 11) and Lithuania in Gran Canaria (August 16) and Vilnius (August 18). They will then play the first two matches of the second qualifying round for the 2023 World Cup against Iceland in Pamplona (August 24) and in the Netherlands (August 27).
“We know the difficulty of the moment. The generational change we are in is a great challenge. We are very clear that the values of the team do not change, but the level of talent does”, said the national coach, Sergio Scariolo.
The coach referred to values such as “generosity, cohesion, camaraderie, sharing the ball on the pitch, helping each other in defense and producing an effort that the fans are proud of.”
“These are elements that have made us famous and admired throughout the world. Values in which we carefully nurture young players who come up from the academy teams and who are very well prepared by the clubs. We want them to maintain the competitiveness on the court, but also the values that characterize us and that we want them to continue doing,” he added.
The 22 players summoned are:
- Alberto Abalde (Real Madrid)/18 caps
- Hector Alderete (Movistar Students)
- Jonathan Barreiro (Unicaja Basketball)/ 9 caps
- Dario Brizuela (Unicaja Basketball)/ 21 caps
- Lorenzo Brown (Unics Kazan)
- Quino Colom (AEK)/36 internationals
- Alberto Diaz (Unicaja Basketball)/12 caps
- Jaime Fernandez (Unicaja Basketball)/23 caps
- Rudy Fernández (Real Madrid)/233 caps
- Usman Garuba (Houston Rockets)/9 internacionalidades
- Frank War (Lenovo Tenerife)/7 internationals
- Juancho Hernangómez (Utah Jazz)/37 caps
- Willy Hernangomez (New Orleans Pelicans)/70 internacionalidades
- Sergio Llull (Real Madrid)/152 caps
- Xabi López-Arostegui (Valencia Basket)/22 caps
- John Nunez (Real Madrid)
- Joel Parra (Youth)/8 internationals
- Jaime Pradilla (Valencia Basket)/6 caps
- Sebas Saiz (Alvark Tokyo)/26 caps
- Michael Saved (Gran Canaria)/3 internationalities
- He hit me Sima (Baxi Manresa)/6 internationals
- Santi Justa (Casademont Zaragoza)/7 internationals
