Photo: Feb.es
Spain’s preparation for the Eurobasket Championship later this month is going excellent, however, the team remains cautious and maintaining a high level of play until they reach their ultimate goal.
GOLD MEDAL
For Spain, Pau Gasol and Juan Carlos Navarro led the team is scoring and on the leadership end as well. Spain started the game with different line up to start the game (Calderón,Juan Carlos Navarro,Fernando San Emeterio, Felipe Reyes and Marc Gasol). Testing the line-ups and shaking things up for the game was essential for Spain. Nothing could stop the starters as they opened the game with a 27-10 lead over Bulgaria and never looked back and finished 96-59 over Bulgaria.
Next up for Spain is against Lithuania on August 18th in Luthania.
Box Score
SPAIN 96 (27) (28) (17) (24): Calderón (6),Juan Carlos Navarro (19),Fernando San Emeterio (0), Felipe Reyes (8), Marc Gasol (6),Pau Gasol (15), Rudy Fernández (2), Ricky Rubio (5), Víctor Claver (2),Sergio Llull (17), Serge Ibaka (7), Carlos Suárez (8) y Víctor Sada (3).
BULGARIA, 59 (10) (17) (16) (16): Rowland (9), Videnov (15), Marinov (2), K. Ivanov (8), Georgiev (0),D. Ivanov (7), Kostov (6), Yanev (4), Velikov (0), Banev (0), Varbanov (0) y Gruev (2).
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With the marks of top Spanish National teams and figures such as Rafael Nadal who just won the Wimbledon after a 44 year drought for Spanish Players and the Spanish Soccer team who also won the Euro2008 after not winning in the 40s. The national teams for Spain both women and men are hoping to follow in those footsteps in Pekin during the Olympic Summer Basketball Games!