Spain continues to grow and show strength in the friendly games against Slovenia by winning by 20 points (88-68) tonight. The Spanish squad played brilliant throughout the game with big plays by Marc Gasol (18pts) and Rudy Fernandez with 19pts. On defense Spain is a team to reckon with and offensive there are so many weapons it is very hard to cover, not to mention a pretty decent bench. Dragic played well for Slovenia adding 16 points, while he was the only one to score double figures, Lakovic & Brezec contributed 9 pts.
Spain will match up again for a friendly game on Tuesday, August 10th 2010 at 8:30pm in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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!