The Spanish basketball team closed its participation in the last qualifying window for

Eurobasket 2022

against the hitherto undefeated Israel in a match that, despite not having qualifying significance, allowed

Sergio Scariolo to

continue

with another triumph and a good taste in the mouth.

giving opportunities to the youngest for future commitments (78-73).

As happened on Friday against Poland, the reigning world champion - plagued by non-regulars since they cannot count on either NBA players or the teams that play the Euroleague - left a good impression except for the erratic third quarter, with good minutes of men with a future in the national team such as

Dario Brizuela

,

Fran Guerra, Jonathan Barreiro, Joel Parra or Xavi López-Aróstegui

.

Spain started from less to more.

The poor shot selection at the start and the excess of individualism weighed him down in the first actions, so he only added two points after three minutes of play.

The defenses were imposed on the attacks, although the dominance in the rebound kept Spain on target in a game in which the baskets came with a dropper.

At the fourth time the charm came and a triple by Ferran Basas gave the first lead to Sergio Scariolo's men after six minutes of doubts and little fluidity in attack.

Little by little, Spain woke up from the hand of Dario Brizuela and Fran Guerra and a 15-4 partial allowed him to turn the score and reach the end of the first quarter ahead (19-13, min 10).

Playing jerkily, Spain took advantage of the rival's mistake from the perimeter and stayed ahead, with the only concern that their tall men were charged with fouls ahead of schedule, forcing Scariolo for a few minutes to play without

Rubén Guerrero

nor Fran Guerra and with Jonathan Barreiro as the roof of the team.

Israel took advantage of this, narrowing the score with a couple of good deeds under hoops that forced the Italian coach to stop the game to reorganize their systems.

López-Aróstegui's

exterior success

avoided surprises against an opponent who was missing the direction and good judgment of Unicaja point guard

Gal Mekel

, his best man in the game played in Valencia and absent this Sunday due to injury.

Free throw failures

With the mistake in free throws as the main deficit in attack, Spain was opening the gap with defense and greater inspiration from the 6.75 line.

Tomer Ginat was

the greatest concern for his success in the paint, but with a single success after nine attempts from the triple in the first half - in front of the five converted by the Spanish - the break was reached with dominance of Scariolo's men ( 42-31, min 20).

On the basis of triples, with three in just a minute and a half, Israel got fully into the game as soon as the third quarter began.

Doubts entered Spain.

His attack came to a halt and his defense was beginning to leak.

Ariel

, with a 3 + 1, culminated a 5-15 partial start and left the difference in only one point after three and a half minutes of Spanish confusion (47-46, min 24).

In five minutes, the world champion only had one basket in play and was staying on top with a few free throws, although her percentages from that position were well below usual.

Scariolo could not find solutions to the blackout of his players, who accumulated alarming losses and errors in attack, so the draws continued until 59-58 with which the last ten minutes were reached.

The 17-27 against the third quarter forced them to fight until the end for the win.

A 6-0 start and the recovery of its best defensive version gave air to the Spanish team, which with Barreiro once again faced the future with optimism.

The players coached by

David-Oded Kattache

, with only one basket in play in four minutes, lost the battle for the rebound, although a triple by

Menco

reactivated their attack.

The doubts came back to grip Spain, which was suffering to continue adding and saw how the Israelis tied at 72 to 1.40 from the end, although it was only a scare because, thanks to his success from the free kick, he knew how to close the game with a good taste in his mouth. third classification window.

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