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money not happy for the Blues after a bitter-tasting Spanish lesson

Money not happy for the Blues, beaten in the final of Euro 2022. TOBIAS SCHWARZ / AFP

DECRYPTION – The golden dreams of the Blues were shattered on the red wave of Spain. Déjà vu.

It was the gold they had come to Berlin for. They leave with the money. Money not happy. Bronze medalists at the 2019 World Cup and Olympic vice-champions in Tokyo last year, the Blues fell on a bone in the EuroBasket final on Sunday. A Spanish bone, as too often… Victory 88-76 of a revamped Roja, rejuvenated, but who masters his basketball so well, his fundamentals, under the orders of the Italian master Sergio Scariolo.

Exit the Gasol brothers, Sergio Llull, Sergio Rodriguez, Felipe Reyes and the executives of the golden generation who shattered the blue dreams in 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015 or 2016. But this team, “the smartest in the Euro» as Vincent Collet said before the meeting, «is backed by more than a few star players“. The French paid to see… Led by the Hernangomez brothers (27 pts for Juancho 7/9 from afar and 14 from Willy) and the naturalized leader Lorenzo Brown (14 pts, 11 wt), the Spaniards won their fourth…

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