The Spanish men’s basketball team opens its participation to Paris 2024 Olympic Games. He does it against Australia on the first day of group A, where every match will be of crucial importance to the initial goal of reaching the quarterfinals.
Three groups of four teams each make up the Games’ competition system. Spain shares a quartet with powerful teams such as Australians, Greece and Canada. This means that the first two in each group will get a direct ticket to the quarterfinals, while the two best third parties will join them. Therefore, the team needs to add victories as soon as possible to try to achieve that goal.
The choice of Sergio Scariolo He arrives at a good moment in the game for this championship after qualifying and adding wins in his preparation for the tournament. Just three weeks ago, Spain achieved the Olympic ticket in Valencia in a six-team qualifying tournament where they lost Lebanon already Angola In the first stage, Poland in the semi-finals Bahamas in the final in a letter for the Olympic ticket.
For this reason, their specific preparation for these Games is shorter than usual. After a few days of rest after getting that ticket, the team played two friendly matches, both with victories. won by 76-72 in Argentina in the first tune-up match for these Games, while later, on Tuesday, he showed great authority to be beaten by 107-84 in Puerto Rico.
Santi Aldamawith twenty points, and Sergio Llull and Juancho Hernangómez, with seventeen each, led Spain against Puerto Rico, in a match where the team was successful from the three-point shot. This allows him to play with a lot of rhythm and open differences from the start on the scoreboard to arrive at these Olympic Games with a good feeling. With them he has to adjust his preparations for the debut, but he aims to arrive at the initial appointment well.
waiting for you Australia, one of the great candidates for medals. The ocean team won bronze at the last Tokyo Olympics, but had a difficult final World Cup. However, the ocean team has a team full of NBA players, up to nine in total. Patty Mills, Dante Exum, Josh Giddey or Joe Ingles They are some of the men Spain will need to watch closely in a match where they will need to contain the potential Oceanic offensive to try to fight for victory.
The match also means the captain of the national team Rudy Fernandez make history. Here, the Balearic player will take part in his sixth Olympic Games, after previously being present in Athens 2004, Beijing 2008, London 2012, Rio de Janeiro 2016 and Tokyo 2012. He will be the first basketball player to achieve the milestone this. .
When is the Spain – Australia basketball match played at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games?
The match is played this Saturday, July 27, at 11:00 am.
Where to watch Spain – Australia basketball at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games?
The meeting can be seen at Eurosport 2, Eurosport 6, DAZN and MAX. In principle, as well RTVE Play. You can follow all the information about the match of the Spanish basketball team by Mundo Deportivo website.
Source: La Verdad
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