2024-07-07 20:25:00
2 min.
Spanish men’s team balance is qualified for the Paris Games 2024 after winning the Pre-Olympic final against the Bahamas 86-78, in a collective victory.
The team led by Sergio Scariolo has secured the only ticket to contention in the play-off competition played in Valentine along with five other countries and ended this Sunday with the scheduled final.
Both teams started the game very evenly, so much so that the first quarter ended with a tie (17-17). Then the Caribbeans started the second quarter with more concentration and were ahead with a 0-6 quarter cut by Rudy Fernández with a triple. The former Madrid player did not want this to be his last game as a professional basketball player.
Two great plugs Usman Garuba –much better in this final– Spain’s intensity rose. And then came the moment when he woke up Lorenzo Brown –until then uninspired–. The nationalized American coin score three threes in a rowafter that there was a tangerine with Sergio Llull at the possession cup to open a gap of 11 points (42-31) on the scoreboard (42-34 at half time).
The Bahamas could not respond After going through the locker room and Spain, good in almost all aspects of the game, managed the advantage (65-56 at the end of the third quarter) without having too much trouble in the last period.
So, The family He will not miss his Olympic event, which he has attended continuously since Sydney 2000. For Rudy it will be his sixth Games after that and the last one, since it will cease.
In Paris, Spain will play the group stage of the men’s basketball tournament alongside Australia, Canada and Greece.
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