Spain hits Germany and reaches the Eurobasket final

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Spain will play the Eurobasket final, the tenth in its entire history, a prize that no one imagined when the tournament began for a team in transition, deprived of the big names and with many absences. It’s the fairy tale you spoke of Sergio Scariolo passing the first round. A dream come true. The team overcame the last wall in Berlin, that of the host Germany, and took a victory (91-96) that serves to further enhance the history of Spanish basketball. With the silver medal assured, Spain will face this Sunday France in search of his fourth championship title.

The superlative performance of Lawrence Brown, author of 29 points and 6 assists, will always be associated with the triumph of Spain in the semi-final. But, once again, the success of the team was the triumph of the collective with stellar appearances by Willy Hernangomezwith 16 points, from his brother Juancho (13) and of a superb Alberto Diaz (10 points), whose defensive work was impeccable.

The selection appeared in the semifinals with seven debutants in the Eurobasket. But that circumstance was hardly noticed in a block that has grown rapidly during the tournament. The team’s staging was impeccable, with excellent concentration and care of the ball, commendable patience in the movement of the ball and a splendid attitude in defense. This is how he managed to reduce the intense staging of the German point guard Dennis Schroeder, the thermometer of Germany, who started very aggressively in his search for the basket. And also from Daniel Theis, a force unleashed inside the zone, the two players who kept the hosts fired up from the first quarter.

Take the iniciative

The team knew how to respond to each blow from its rival and take the initiative in a first quarter with many points (24-27) with Willy Hernangomez exercising the leadership of the group, but with punctual appearances of many of his companions as López-Arostegui, Brizuela or Brown. The rotation of Scariolo allowed to Spain maintain your level of play and your speed. Garuba raised the intensity under the basket and the determination of Rudi Fernandez, with a couple of consecutive triples, he opened the first advantages for Spain, which came to settle in a comfortable difference (24-33) and forced Gordon Herbert, the German coach, to recover his starting lineup and return Schroeder to the track.

He was the NBA base, cut by the Rockets this summer and currently without a team, who returned to put a very touched Germany. Based on individual actions, penetrations and triple launchesSchroeder managed to turn the dynamic of the game around without Spain finding the antidote to disconnect it. In just a minute and a half, the German team went from losing 32-41 to winning 46-41, after a resounding 14-0 run in which they managed to string together three triples, a 2+1 action by Schroeder and two free throws for an unsportsmanlike foul committed by lorenzo brownthrowing away almost all the work of the team, which went to rest in a negative dynamic (52-46).

question of bases

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It was the two bases, Lorenzo Brown and Alberto Diaz, those who brought Spain back into the fight at the restart. Five points from each and a triple from Willy Hernangomez allowed to build a partial of 0-13 that returned the confidence to the team of Scariolo (57-61). That blow was not easy to take. But Germany It is a mentally armored team, which knows that it has a unique opportunity to fight for the title, and not only took the blow but returned it forcefully, again with Schroeder in command of operations (71-61), a dynamic that, luckily, the selection put a stop to again through its bases.

a triple of Brown reduced the damage at the end of the third quarter and another of Diaz opened the new load of the selection to return the balance with six minutes to go (77-77) and turn the last minutes into a show of mettle and intelligence on the part of Spainwho knew how to shield his basket and take advantage of free throws to reach, in all fairness, a more than deserved final.

Germany, 91 – Spain, 96

Germany: Schroder (30), Obst (15), Wagner (15), Theis (10), Voigtmann (2) -initial five-, Giffey (-), Lo (9), Thiemann (6), Weiler-Babb (4 ), Wohlafrart-Bottermann (-).

13 of 34 triples (Note, 5). 28 rebounds, 13 offensive (Note, 5). 19 assists (Schroder, 8)

Spain: Brown (29), Jaime Fernández (-), López-Arostegui (7), Pradilla (4), Willy Hernangómez (16) -five starters-, Brizuela (5), Alberto Díaz (10), R.Fernández (6) , Garuba (4), Juancho Hernangómez (13) and Sebas Saiz (2).

10 of 27 triples (Brown, 3). 33 rebounds, 12 offensive (Rudy Fernandez, 6). 20 assists (Brown, 6)

Partials: 24-27; 27-19; 20-19; 20-31



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