Spain Basketball: Scariolo’s Exit & EuroBasket Loss

Spain is not among the sixteen best teams in Eurobasket. He had to defeat Greece to be in the eighth after Bosnia’s victory against Georgia and the national team fit the third defeat in five games. The goodbye of Scariolo ended the worst historical result of the national team in 67 great international championships. The selection, orphan of leaders, always had the uphill thanks to the extraordinary exterior success of Greece in the first quarter. The party was an exercise of faith with a tragic end. Errors in free throws (15 failed) represented the failure of Spain.

The faces and gestures of the Spanish players when they gathered the path of the costumes to rest were significant: look at the marker and head. The beginning of the end of the road to Spain at the Eurobasket came from the line of three. In the party plan there was the option that Greek shooters hurt. It was that Giannis Antetokounmpo did the least possible damage not only scoring, also generating good shooting positions for his companions. Spain complied with the first premise, but not with the second. The Greek star knew how to read the Spanish defense so that the ball arrived at the best located player or the most inspired partner. In the first quarter the proper name was Tyler Dorsy. The nationalized escort scored the first four releases. The right corner of the court was his thing. They also scored Sloukas, Papanikolau, Katsivelis … were 24 points embedded in less than six minutes. The outer bleeding in the first quarter translated into an 8/10 in triples of the Greeks and a disadvantage of fifteen points.

The game were final sixteen for Spain. Georgia’s defeat against Bosnia forced a victory to continue in the tournament, but that Greece, although classified, also needed to win not to cross with France in eighths. The selection tried to forget the nightmare of the first quarter with more defense. He managed to deactivate the exteriors and those of Spanoulis had no choice but to grab Giannis Antetokounmpo. Spain was more collective with the amazing appearance of López-Arostegui and some detail of Aldama. The teson and faith award was a momentary approach (33-38). It was a mirage because the attack of the selection had no continuity. The triples ceased to be well selected and what had been a nightmare throughout the championship, the free throws, continued before the Greeks. There were seven in the first two rooms! Greece was enough for Antetokounmpo to recover its scoring version to recover the fortnight of advantage with half a game ahead.

The first arreón had no prize, but the selection was able to return to the load. And he did it with players who were not called to have a leading role. Pradilla, the one who most bothered in defense of Antetokounmpo, gave the exit signal and immediately added Yusta and Larrea. The three were brave and daring, something that had missed before. They put Spain back in the fight for the eighths (52-56). Before the alarm signal Greece again sheltered in the usual. The contribution of the Milwaukee Bucks player again gave air to the shooters. Greece had scored a triple eleven in three quarters with a success of more than 50 percent, but Spain was in the game with the best room scorer in the entire championship (63-68).

The appearance of the Hernangómez and the monumental impudence of Saint-Supéry gave the impulse so that Spain at least completed the comeback (73-72) and forced Greece to seek new arguments. He found them with the veteran of Sloukas and Papanikolau. Scariolo opted to sit for Willy and Juancho and recovered Aldama and Pradilla. Spain returned to the load and three minutes from the end continued to believe (82-81). Scariolo redoubled the bet and placed the two bases of 19 years on the track. Opposite were balls from Antetokounmpo or if not, to Sloukas. The Spanish attack collapsed and Greece entered the last minute ahead after a part of 0-6 (84-88). The succession of free throws from Spain in the final stretch held a new penance in one of the nightmares of the championship. Three mistakes of Juancho, another from Aldama … Spain left the Eurobasket in the goodbye of Scariolo through the back door.

86. España (20+15+28+23): of Larrea (6), Yusta (9), Parra (7), Aldama (12) and Pradilla (14) – Willy Counter- 6), Sain-Supéry (13), Juancho (5), Brizuela (0), Puerto (0) and López-Arost (0) and Lopez-Arostte (0) and López-Arostte (0) (0).

90. Greece (31+19+18+22): Sloukas (12), Dorsey (22), Papanikolau (11), Katsivelis (3) y Antetokounmpo (25) -quinteto Titular -Mitoglou (2), T. Antetokounmpo (1), Toliopoulos (4), K. Antetokounmpo (6), Kalaitzakis (4).

Referees: Vázquez (Pur), Kozlovskis (Let) and Prkasch (Hun). Without eliminated. Technique to Juancho and the Greek bench.

Incidents: 4,700 spectators in the Kyprianou Sand Sand of Limasol. Match corresponding to the fifth day of the Eurobasket.

5th Journey Group C: Bosnia, 84- Georgia, 76; Italy, 89-Chipre, 54 and Spain, 86-Grecia, 90.

Classification (victories/losses): 1. Greece (4/1); 2. Italy (4/1); 3. Bosnia (3/2); 4. Georgia (2/3); 5. Spain (2/3); 6. Cyprus (0/5).

Eighth final

(Saturday 6 and Sunday 7)

1. Lithuania-Letonia (Saturday)

2. Türkiye-suecia (Saturday)

3. Germany-Portugal (Saturday)

4. Serbia-Finlandia(Saturday)

5. Greece-Israel (Sunday)

6. Poland-Bosnia (Sunday)

7. Italy-Eslovenia (Sunday)

8. FRANCIA-GEORGIA (Sunday)

Rooms

(Tuesday 9 and Wednesday 10)