Rudy "It was essential to ask for help"
The USA Team stumble the night before was still fresh at the Saitama Arena, fueling that absurd debate between FIBA basketball and the NBA.
As if they were different things.
Soon
Luka Doncic
showed that talent does not matter, that baskets love the chosen ones.
And in these Games in which he makes his debut, he opts for the highest star.
It was her first day of Olympic class. It would seem late from so much he already showed, but Luka is still 22 years old. He, a lonely hero, has led Slovenia to the appointment, in a Pre-Olympic in which he took the thorn of the absence in the World Cup.
Against the Lithuania of Sabonis and Valanciunas
, in Kaunas, the Dallas player finished with 31 points, 11 rebounds and 13 assists. Never seen. And a victory as historic as that in the 2017 European Championship.
Because what surrounds him in Slovenia is not too much,
Goran Dragic
already retired from the national team
.
But Luka has the virtue of being able to make others believe and grow.
The contagion of charisma.
In addition to producing in an unapproachable way.
Prepelic, Cancar, the other Dragic and the nationalized Mike Tobey -the new Anthony Randolph-, center of Valencia.
Together, at the Olympic dawn, they shaken the world runner-up without embarrassment.
Scola, historical
Nothing less than the Argentina of
Campazzo, Deck and a Scola
who enters the select club of the fifth Games at 41 years of age.
Plucked in a bad way, already defeated at halftime, when Doncic added 31 points.
In the third quarter he fell to 30, pure impotence.
Luka, magician, dominated like no one remembered and signed a work of art: 48 points, 11 rebounds and five assists.
It was the highest score of his career, the second in the entire history of the Olympic Games.
In 1988, the legendary
Oscar Schmidt scored 55 for Spain
.
Doncic was on his way when Aleksander Sekulic, his coach, sat him down with more than four minutes to go.
Everything was sentenced and the Games have just started.
It was striking to see how with each break of the former Madrid player, Slovenia recoiled and Argentina came back little by little.
But the ogre returned and again the frustration.
Not even Campazzo (21 points), who knows him so well, could do anything.
Barely makeup at the end, the albiceleste was also weighed down by her poor success
(5 of 31 in triples)
.
Both are the next rivals of Spain.
The good news is that this beating leaves Argentina touched, because in addition, with the change in the system - the two best third parties pass and then there will be a draw for the quarter -, everything counts.
The bad news is that there will be a powerful and confident rival in front.
That will be next Sunday.
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