The Spanish team is not among the favorites to play a great role in the EuroBasket after accumulating six consecutive podiums
These are difficult times for spanish basketball With most of the golden generation retired, the national teamHe will seek to play a worthy role in a EuroBasket where we have always been on the podium since 2005 and where we have reached at least the semi-finals since 1999.
Almost a quarter of a century later, ‘The Family’ lives a dramadue to muscle injury. The team will only have captain Rudy Fernandez from the ‘Old Guard’ and will be surrounded by many less experienced youngsters.
There is also the controversial nationalization of a Lorenzo Brown who had no attachment to our country and whose performance does not seem to make excessive differences. Those who do expect them to lead this team It will be the Hernangómez brothers with Willy at his best with the national team and with Juancho alternating brilliant games with more discreet ones.
If we do accounts, there are many absences for this EuroBasket where our main rivals will have their stars NBA like Serbia with Jokic, Greece with Antetokounmpo or Slovenia with Doncic. Spain does not have Ricky Rubio due to injury, but neither does Grizzlies player Santi Aldama by choice.
The same goes for some Nikola Mirotic and Serge Ibaka that it seems that they will not dress again the rest of his days the red shirt. You also have to count on the fact that Marc Gasol is still active, but he resigned. And the same goes for an Alex Abrines who should have been key for this team.
Quotas and miracles
Scarioloseen the seen, will have to perform a miracle that has already worked on previous occasions with surprising triumphs in its record, such as the 2015 EuroBasket or the 2019 World Cup. The company, however, is now much more complicated due to the lack of experience of its squad and the power of its rivals .
Spain is the fifth favorite in the quotas, paying its victory to favorite[7.00] Ahead we find the great favorite, Serbia, which is listed at [4.00] after having been runner-up in the last edition held in 2017.
In fact, it is the time that more time has elapsed between the celebration of a EuroBasket and the next in all history due to the modification of the FIBA calendar. In second place we find a strong Greece that is at quota [5.00]. Slovenia follows [5.50] and France to [5.00][5.50][6.00]. With this progression, Spain would not even get into the semifinals. We’ll see if the ball wants to go in.