The summer of Spanish basketball continues to advance with firm foot as he gets closer world. If last Sunday the U-19 women’s team made the almighty suffer, USA in the Madrid final. The next medal can arrive only a week later, with the Under-18. Javier Zamora’s boys beat Turkey this Thursday in the Eurobasket quarterfinals by 67-75. This Saturday (6:00 p.m., YouTube) they will play in the semifinals, to secure a new medal for Spanish basketball, against to France, who beat Slovenia 81-62 with 19 points from Tidjane Salaun, a power forward of 2.05 meters.
From the start of the game it was clear which team would carry the weight of the match, Aday Mara and Hugo González they commanded a start that led to closing the first quarter with an 18-24 advantage. Maintaining the score in favor from the first basket, Only 13 seconds lasted for the draw against the Turkish team. The second unit with names like Álvaro Folgueiras and Lucas Mari managed to extend the distance to 20-33, the biggest difference in the entire game. Türkiye with Ozgur Cengiz in the lead, he knew how to stay in the game until the break with a six-point lead that began in that quarter (32-38). The Turkish player, who averaged 12.3 points in the European Championship, he left until he was 33 and it was the great danger for the Spanish defense.
The break did not change the course of the game, the first minutes of Spanish dominance for the last few minutes where the poor 3-point percentage (2/16), added to the free shots rivals (29 to Spain’s 13) led to the fact that in the final moments they could not stand out in the electronic. The head of operations today had his own name, Hugo Gonzalez. The Real Madrid forward took the reins in the team’s attack and finished off a masterful performance. to their 22 goals, with 50% shooting from the fieldyou have to add the 12 rebounds that caught, the 4 assists distributed and help in defense with 3 steals and 3 blocks, one of them with a key minute to go in the final result. The good movement of the ball by Javier Zamora’s boys with 14 assists and the victory on the rebound (39-44). Langarita with 14, Mario Saint-Supery with 11 and Aday Mara with 10 were the top scorers. Aday was once again the axis of the defense with 5 blocks (3 of them in the last quarter).
Some new semifinals for the lower categories, which, except for the European Under-20, have always been full until that round. good stat in the semifinals (3 wins and 1 loss) that will be at stake on Saturday from 6:00 p.m. against Francewhich like Spain, arrives undefeated.