The team gets caught up in the rivalry’s chorus play and crashes from the outside to suffer an unexpected defeat that complicates the group leadership, waiting for Montenegro and Turkey
Spain suffered a major setback this Sunday against Belgium, which on the third day of the Eurobasket rightly defeated a team without intensity that got caught up in the chorus of the rival, crashed from the outside (8 out of 29 in triples, for a success of 28% rate) and lacked continuity and aggressiveness. The group leadership is still possible for Spain, but it has become too complicated, because they are waiting for the round of 16 that has yet to be won against the current world champions Montenegro and Turkey. The unexpected puncture slows the progress of a team that had created many illusions after their resounding victories over Bulgaria and Georgia.
Belgium, with a great defence, very clear ideas in attack and always superior in rebounding, was responsible for bringing Spain back to reality, that left too many concessions and also failed on the offensive aspect, in its worst game of the year. the championship, riddled with ups and downs. Stunned from the start, Scariolo’s team reacted in the second quarter, the only one to win, but returned to their old habits after the break, overwhelmed by the greater energy of the Belgians, led by their starting point guard, Emmanuel Lecomte, who left until 20 points. In Spain, only the brothers Hernangómez and Lorenzo Brown reacted in the attack, but in the case of the nationalized game director when the game was already tilted in favor of the Belgians in the final set.
Spain’s sensations were never good, which drew a lousy game in which neither the starting five nor the second unit worked, despite Darío Brizuela leading the team’s relaunch in a second quarter in which he dominated with nine (26- 17) after a 15-0 run led by Unicaja’s shooting guard and the almost always Willy. However, Scariolo’s team’s game has always been very thick, little sacrifice, and even in that convincing spell in Spain, Italian coach Juancho and his company even threatened to take the players off the bench for allowing such easy penetrations to the Electric Lecomte.
Brown (11), López-Arostegui (7), Parra (3), Juancho Hernangómez (11) and Willy Hernangómez (18) -first quintet-; Pradilla (3), Rudy Fernández (2), Jaime Fernández (5), Brizuela (6), Diaz (1) and Garuba (6).
Lecomte (20), Obasohan (11), Gillet (14), Vanwijn (8) and Bako (10) –starting quintet–; Bleijenbergh (3), De Zeeuw (2), Libert (2), Mwema (6), Tabu (6) and Tomb (1).
Source: La Verdad
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