Credit: Feb.es
Inside play proves a key point in Spain’s offense and defense strategy during the World Championships in Japan. Sancho Lyttle scored 29 pts and the other three inside players accumulated 32 points total off the bench. Spain has not lost a game and will look to moves into the quarterfinals undefeated. Japan was no match for Spain. Today, Spain will match up against host country Czech Republic at 18:00 local time.
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BOX SCORE
SPAIN, 86 (28)(22)(13)(23): Lyttle (29), Palau (0), Montañana (7), Valdemoro (13), Cruz (2), Nicholls (10), Fernández (4), Lima (12), Pascua (0), Aguilar (5), Martínez (0) y Torrens (4).
JAPAN, 59 (12)(15)(20)(12): Mitani (16), Suwa (4), Yoshida (4), Oga (7), Ishikawa (2), Nagi (4), Takada (2), Suzuki (4), Fujiyoshi (3), Sakurada (13) y Takahashi (0).
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!