2023-08-12 02:03:35
Last Updated Saturday, 12 August 2023 – 02:03
Sign a great collective exercise one day before facing the United States
A Spain that went from less to more ended up passing over the Slovenia of a Luka Doncic who, despite trying, did not have his best afternoon at the Martín Carpena. The Spaniards, with a whole festival of triples in the final moments of a duel in which the brothers Willy and Juancho Hernangmez shone with their own light in offensive production, came to put themselves 25 points ahead of a rival who, of course, aspires to everything in the World Cup, but which ended up being uncompromisingly surpassed by the team coached by Sergio Scariolo (99-79).
Slovenia, with a Doncic practically omnipresent, It was devastating at the start. With a completely lethal aim in the triples and a tremendously seasoned defense, they managed to get a maximum difference of 13 points (10-23) in the middle of the first period that would have left anyone terribly touched. Far from accusing the coup, Spain knew how to take advantage of the former Madrid player’s absence to put their batteries into destructive work and improve his scoring performance, with the Hernangmez brothers erected as great protagonists.
So, Scariolo’s set had managed to partial 10-0 which, in the end, would allow them to reach the end of the quarter just one point below on the scoreboard (26-27). In the second quarter the green shoots shown at the end of the first period by the Spaniards had a more than happy continuity. Doncic, diminished after his momentary departure to the locker room due to a blow to the hip with Alberto Díaz and practically jinxed in free throws, his production dropped and Slovenia noticed that. Very much.
Scariolo’s group, on the other hand, with a choral attack and a step forward in defense, meanwhile, he managed to score a 14-2 run that would allow him to take an 11-point lead in the light (51-40) before Doncic, despite forcing three free kicks at the end of the second quarter, could only convert into a 51-41 before the break.
At the restart the game seemed to lose a bit of intensity, but the third quarter ended up becoming a new exchange of blows in which, at the end of the period, the distances between the two rivals did not budge one iota (73-63). . On the Spanish side they shone especially Aldama and Willy Hernangmez, who would also be joined by Abrines with two final claws, while, on the Slovenian side, the one who stood out a little above his teammates was a tremendously involved Klemen Prepelic in the duel.
The friction between one another would return in a last quarter in which Spain, once again taking advantage of the good hand of Abrines, the pride of Aldama and a festival of triples signed by Juancho, Alberto Díaz, Parra and Brizuela, managed to achieve a maximum difference of 25 points (99-74). A slab that would already be too heavy for the Slovenians, who would finally end up falling 99-79 at the Martín Carpena.
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