Spain sweats the management towards Turkey and can cross with Lithuania – Muricas News

Willy Hernangómez leads the victory and Scariolo’s males will face Lithuania on Saturday within the spherical of 16 in Berlin

The Spanish basketball workforce has certified for the 2022 Eurobasket spherical of 16 as first in Group A, after attaining a hard-fought 69-72 victory towards Turkey on the fifth and final day of the primary part, performed on the Tbilisi Area of Tbilisi (Georgia), and that may take him to a tricky cross towards Lithuania.

In a match with out captain Rudy Fernández, Sergio Scariolo’s males, with Willy Hernangómez, with 15 factors, as probably the most excellent participant, achieved their tightest and most illustrious victory within the Eurobasket and can face the Lithuanian workforce subsequent Saturday, fourth labeled from Group B.

It was a ‘sweaty’ management. Other than the cabals and the doable crosses, Spain placed on the work overalls to face its most complex revalidation on this begin of the continental match. It was the Turkey of the nationalized Shane Larkin, grey this Wednesday, of Alperen Sengun and Cedi Osman.

And this with out captain Rudy Fernández, yet one more fan on the bench, however sidelined from the sport as a consequence of discomfort in his proper leg that pressured him to withdraw “as a precaution” on this first Eurobasket ‘remaining’ for procuring, a priori, a extra favorable crossing within the eighth crossing.

Osman, from the triple, and Willy Hernangómez waged a ‘wrestle’ within the distance, one from the perimeter and one other within the ‘portray’ to maintain the unruly Ergin Ataman and Scariolo in a steadiness that lasted for nearly the whole recreation .

With Sengun hurting Spain within the space, Sebas Saiz burst from the bench like a cyclone to, with two baskets in transition and a block and help to Lorenzo Brown, the ‘proprietor of time’ within the nationwide workforce, to present a minimal benefit (34-38) to ‘The Household’ on the break.

Spain went into disaster at the start of a 3rd quarter during which Turkey took the initiative (48-45) with a pair of three-pointers by Korkmaz earlier than the private elimination of Darío Brizuela, and with Rudy out as a consequence of harm, pile the dangerous information within the financial institution for Scariolo.

GARUBA, WILLY AND THE ROBBERY OF DIAZ

As an alternative, Garuba took over the scoring after a triple by Alberto Díaz with a steal and a counterattack to clear the longer term (50-56) in the direction of the spherical of 16. It wasn’t simple although. Spain wanted Willy Hernagómez to cease a 9-0 run and Brown’s management to succeed in an unpredictable end result.

A faucet by López-Arostegui made it 65-69 earlier than Osman’s 2 plus one (68-69) with 48 seconds to play. Two free throws by ‘Willy’ appeared to go away (68-71) cleared the lead with 17 seconds left. This got here shortly after a restoration by Alberto Díaz in a terrific protection towards Larkin.

Spain put the calculator apart and did its job in an train of the commerce. Subsequent Saturday in Berlin he must verify if the slap towards Belgium towards a gaggle with out massive stars was an anecdote or the shock to gas his want to make historical past on this championship

DATASHEET.

–RESULT: TURKEY, 69 – SPAIN, 72 (34-38, at halftime).

TURKEY: Larkin (3), Osman (20), Korkmaz (16), Sengun (14), Sanli (4) -starting five-, Mahmutoglu (5), Hazer (5), Tuncer (2) and Osmani (-) .

SPAIN: Brown (11), Jaime Fernández (3), Pradilla (6), López-Arostegui (9), Willy Hernangómez (15) -first five-, Juancho Hernangómez (8), Díaz (3), Brizuela (6) , Garuba (4), Parra (3) and Saiz (4).

–PARTIALS: 18-17, 16-21, 16-18 and 19-16.

–REFEREE: Oskars Lucis (Let), Martin Vulic (Cro) and Beniamino Manuel Attard (Stone). Eradicated for private fouls Brizuela (min. 28) and Sengun (min. 34).

–PAVILLION: Tbilisi Area.