Spain Dominates Slovenia in FEB Centenary Tournament

Datasheet

99 – Spain (26+25+22+26): Alberto Díaz (7), Abrines (13), Juancho Hernángomez (17), Parra (7), Willy Hernángomez (17) -starting five- Rudy (3), Juan Núñez (7), Jaime Fernández (3), Brizuela (7), Claver (0), Aldama (16), Garuba (0),

79 – Slovenia (27+14+22+16): Doncic (17), Hrovat (10), Blazic (11), Morgan (2), Cebasek (0) – starting quintet – Samar (2), Nikolic (2) , Klemen Prepelic (11), Tobey (10), Dmic (0), Dragic (3), Glas (0), Bine Prepelic (4), Kunc (0).

Chronicle of the match

Spain showed a great choral version this Friday, with outstanding performances by Hernángomez and Santi Aldama, and dominated Luka Doncic’s Slovenia (99-79) in the first game of the FEB centenary tournament, which is played at the Martín Carpena from Malaga as preparation for the World Cup in Indonesia, Japan and the Philippines.

Sergio Scariolo’s team threatened to be dominated by Doncic’s iron fist, but ended up dominating Slovenia and exciting the fans in a match with many physical duels, some pique, good collective play to look confidently towards the next World Cup and the negative side of Usman Garuba’s ankle injury.

The play of lights, the infinity of cameras and the decoration of the centenary, in black and gold tones, in addition to the packed one that the Palacio de los Deportes in Malaga presented: everything looked a night of enjoyment with a triangular that has the flavor of a Copa del World.

The spotlights were on Luka Doncic, who in his first two plays already marked the ground, attracting the defense of Spain, who forgot about the released shooters. La Familia had a hard time starting in a bad initial five minutes.

The “special attention” to Doncic that Scariolo spoke of in the previous one was exercised by Alberto Díaz, defender in one against one of the Dallas Mavericks player, who was unblemished in his success both in points and in game distribution, something that ended fading in the second half.

This was noticed by Slovenia, which of course is and should be much more than Luka, but whose creation begins and often ends in his hands; Thus, Spain tried to attack to cut back, but still without being consistent behind.

Scariolo took advantage of the actions of his team in which he saw errors to comment on them with the bench, even with some anger through, such as Joel Parra in a foul on Doncic in a dotted shot.

Coinciding with Spain’s improvement, which was five points behind, the atmosphere at La Familia cooled down with the injury to Usman Garuba, who limped off late in the first quarter.

A block from Santi Aldama was able to lift the more than 10,600 attendees at Carpena from their seats, while Scariolo’s men finally found their ideal point in defending the ring: with Willy on the inside and the defensive ability of Alberto Díaz and Juan Núñez everything is simpler.

The game advanced evenly at 37, but with a stretch of stagnation in scoring for Spain, which sought to improve a worrying ten percent in triples (one of ten attempts).

In the thirteenth, he finally came on to put Spain ahead (40-38, minute 18) and the ban was opened for the best version of the team, who managed to go to the locker room winning ten points.

Luka Doncic began to be seen frowning and uncomfortable due to the downturn of his team against a Spain that had come up, where the trio of NBA aces formed by the Hernángomez and Santi Aldama already had more than 30 points together (57-51).

The current kings of Europe entered that moment of trance of a champion team, where everything came out immaculately: Willy’s back mate, another from Abrines and a great block from Aldama, spectacle and fun.

In the last quarter the confidence of the Spaniards completely flowed and the impotence of the Slovenians was evident, with a Luka Doncic who only contributed three points in the second half and was not accompanied by too many figures from other swords such as Mike Tobey or Klemen Prepelic .

After the three defeats in the last five official matches against Slovenia, the closest in the Tokyo Olympics, Spain managed to knock it down based on a choral game and the 18 points from Aldama, 17 from Willy and another 17 from Juancho, although this selection is much more than individualities.

2023-08-12 05:02:28
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