One lives an emotion and believes it definitively: 13 years ago , with Pau Gasol on the bench for a major injury, Spain devastated Greece to win its first basketball World Cup , in a deed that some considered unrepeatable. And it turns out that this September 15 we have repeated it, in an overwhelming way, in a championship that we started with less prospects even than 13 years ago, and in even more difficult circumstances, with a selection plagued with casualties and that the tournament began winning base of defensive discipline and enduring the shower.

That of 2019, after those strange Windows that the FIBA ​​designed to annoy its great enemy, the Euroleague, which annoyed its European monopoly, was a championship with traps, and those of Scariolo have been surpassing them one after another until the final test. And, once in it, and without diminishing the merit of the impolute route of the Argentineans, Spain has devastated.

Unlike the Spain-Australia clash in the semifinals, this time the big question was whether, with Marcos Delía or the veteran-and admirable- Luis Scola , Argentina could resist the foreseeable Spanish superiority under the rings. The answer is obvious: no. From there, the beating. The level of defensive and offensive efficiency that Sergio Scariolo's Spain has been reaching game after game has been simply overwhelming. Rivals have been rudely defeated in defense before being overcome in attack. And never with the devastating efficiency achieved in this final.

The party that made the difference between the doubtful Spain and the winning Spain was undoubtedly that tremendous Spain-Italy after which we wrote: «Mission accomplished after another ordeal». More important than the heroic Spain-Australia of the two extensions. There Spain began to grow until the championship. However, the last couple of meetings are those that define a team of historical category. This Spain built by the wise Sergio Scariolo on the remains of the previous champion teams and the best of our current basketball has managed to rise to the height of the champion team in 2006, infinitely less indisputable. Men, above names .

And now, just one horizon: the 2020 Games . Of the players with less than 30 years, only the Hernangómez brothers have shown that they deserved to be in this team and have proved indispensable for the victory. Next year we will have to show something else so that we continue to believe that the future of the national basketball team is assured. Today we celebrate, but the future is uncertain.

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