Spain has regained their confidence and bashed France with Pau Gasol leading all scorers with 28points.  Spain lead during the entire game and there tough defense stopped top point guard Tony Parker for France. The fight for the Eurobasket 2009 Gold is still in play for Spain, after starting the championship very bad. Spain will face the winner of tonights game: Turkey vs Greece on Saturday.

Box Score

FRANCE, 66 (15+17+20+14): Parker (6), Batum (7), Diaw (9), Pietrus (3) y Turiaf (12) –starters–; Diot (3), Jeanneau (3), Koffi (6), Bokolo (2), De Colo (7), Traoré (8).

SPAIN, 86 (25+22+26+13): Rubio (8), Navarro (11), Rudy Fernández (13), Garbajosa (3) y Pau Gasol (28) –starters–; López (-), Reyes (8), Claver (-), Llull (-), Marc Gasol (6), Mumbrú (6).

The chemistry of the Spanish Mens National Team seems to be a little OUT OF SYNC. On the court, they don’t seem as fluid and lots of mistakes however they managed to pull off a much needed when. Although not convincing, a win is still a win. Their group is not the easiest and tomorrow they will look to take on Slovenia.It will be an interesting match up because Slovenia beat Serbia today which won yesterday over Spain.

Rudy Fernandez came in during the end of the game to knock down an important 3 pointer to make the game more clear for Spain. Up until that they were only up by 2 points and barely. Plus the help of some, traveling calls on England.

Box Score

Pau Gasol led all scorers with 27 points

SPAIN331, 84 (25+19+22): Rubio (5), Navarro (10), Marc Gasol (8), Mumbrú (5),y Pau Gasol (27) -Starters-, Rudy (13), Reyes (4), Raúl (0), Claver (12), Llull (0) y Cabezas (0).

GREAT BRITAIN, 76 (15+20+21) Mensah-Bonsu (6), George (0), Archibald (4), Reinking (10), Boyd (4) -Starters-, Lenzly (14), Achara (7), Freeland (10), Hart (15) y Sullivan (6).

Serbia started the game with all guns ready on offense and especially defense. Spain started slow and was never in a good rhythm in the game to overcome Serbias good defense or good field goal shooting percentage. Leading scorer for Spain was Navarro and second was Felipe Reyes. Pau Gasol in his first game back after a finger injury didn’t seem to get the ball much and when he did was not aggressive enough. However, Gasol was noted as saying that team cannot rely on shooting from the outside only. Also that the Spains Mens National Team “cannot play any worse”. Spain will look to rebound back today when they are up against Great Britain.

Box Score

SERBIA, 66 (15+23+18+10) Teodosic (4), Tepic (10), Tripkovic (3), Velickovic (12) y Krstic (17) -Starters-, Markovic (2), Paunic (4), Bjelica (2), Macvan (8), Raduljica (2) y Perovic (2).

SPAIN, 57 (12+11+14+20) Rubio (6), Navarro (14), Mumbrú (-), Garbajosa (-), Marc Gasol (4) -Starters, López (3), Cabezas (-), Claver (-), Reyes (12) y Pau Gasol (9).

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