Another Spain to believe: the national team crushes Georgia on the way to the World Cup

• Fran Guerra The pivot who left his bad reputation: "I was one step away from throwing in the towel"

The ineffable 'FIBA Windows' can also be useful, this is what the national team has been demonstrating since they were designed four years ago. Instead of laments for those who cannot be there, of dramas for what can be lost, precious opportunities for the others in national basketball, those so often forgotten or simply blocked by the elite. Between the hunger of the players and the priceless technical-tactical work of

, in Spain these qualifying periods with shoehorn on the calendar are blessed airs of freshness and enthusiasm. [89-61: Narration and statistics]

Mainly, because the Italian coach uses them to lay the foundations for the future, especially now in this time of post-Gasol generational change. If Georgia presented itself as a really "hard" challenge, a stone on the road to the 2023 World Cup, by halftime the meritorious national team had already crushed it with momentum, defense and choral discipline, to the delight of the wonderful Olivo Arena de Jaén , to burst a soulless Monday in November.

Once the loss of the maximum Georgian threat was known, a squeezed

to whom his boast of last week took its toll - in less than 24 hours two games to meet CSKA in the Euroleague and with his selection -, it all began to clarify enough. Because the size of the former Baskonia power forward is capital and because the rival's focus was now reduced to just two:

in the paint and the nationalized

on the perimeter.

And instead of seeing them come, Spain came out to bite, to use their rotation to give them no truce or loophole. It was more of a team than of proper names recruited for the occasion, with how difficult it is to achieve that in these fleeting concentrations. After the first adjustments and the warning of the seven points followed by

, the blow. Shermadini gasped exhausted as the national team passed over him, a partial of 22-2 (38-17) in which they scored up to 10 of Scariolo's 12 rotation players (

, two of the debutants, would also finish it doing). Special mention for the two 'Fives',

, hope for giants in a country where they tend to be rarities.

Georgia tried to return more harshly from the locker room, but soon found an answer again in the talent of Jaime Fernández, one of those who knows what it is to stay at the gates of a great tournament and does not give up on his commitment or commitment.

And again the defensive rigor, the fast hands, the constant assists, the Scariolo stamp.

Fran Guerra and Sima made life impossible for Shermadini and

, that duo of Basque talents, had fun.

The Georgian trap ended up being another beating - Spain came to command by 33 points (78-45) -, a festival to reinforce the team's future commitment and not to start the long road to the 2023 World Cup with complications. In February, the next Window.

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