The movie night of the MVP's Hernangómez: "I told him: 'Move your ass, lead us'"

There was joy, there were tears, there were dances, there were hugs.

On the track of the Mercedes Benz Arena

, who last night equaled

with 11 medals around his neck (he surpasses him in gold), played with his children, with one of the nets around his neck, and with the golden glitter they emulated swimming.

Before he had looked at the sky, I remember

, the one who was always there, who died a few months ago.

Usman Garuba hoisted

on his shoulders

, who kept stealing, now the other net instead of balls to the rival.

"The world is full of madness and all this is a sample," pronounced the redhead, one of those heroes whose lives have changed forever these days in Tbilisi and Berlin.

Lorenzo Brown

was walking talking by videoconference with his family and Garuba, in his wonderful twentysomething spontaneity, shouted "I told you!"

with that big voice with which he went viral after the semifinals and his "Orooo, we want the orooo".

But the men of the night were the

brothers .

MVP of the match the little one -27 points, five rebounds, those seven three-pointers out of nine attempts by Juancho for history, only two

in the 1995 final- and the MVP of the tournament in which

for the eldest.

His parents watched proudly from the stands and Rudy, in those gestures that are not seen, gave the forward the game ball to Juancho.

"We talked about it at the beginning, about the MVP. We didn't have any player in the ranking of the 15 most outstanding players in the tournament. 'Move your ass, lead us and do it,' I told him," Scariolo acknowledged at a press conference, before his pupils, already in the middle of the party, will puddle him with water.

"This did not happen a few years ago, it is the other side of having such a young team. The first time is always unique," joked a drenched coach.

Juancho's tears

"It has been a long road, a very hard road, with many ups and downs and in the end, working and believing in oneself, everything comes out afloat. It has not been a bed of roses on a personal level, with complicated moments that help to savor these happy moments", said Juancho through tears, perhaps the player most in the spotlight of the Spanish team, criticized for his lack of prominence, but from less to more until he touched the sky of Berlin on the most incredible night of his career.

"We are two brothers who come from a humble family in Las Rozas. Our parents instilled values ​​in us through work. And we always dreamed. I never thought of playing in the ACB, nor seven years in the NBA. We continue to work in the shadows, taking advantage of opportunities. The lesson is that anything can be achieved. You can keep dreaming", reflected the Pelicans player, who finished the Eurobasket with 17.2 points and 6.9 rebounds per game.

Only Lorenzo Brown could argue with the MVP he inherits from guys like

.

But the spirit was funny.

"I don't know what Juancho ate, but I would like to know so I can eat it every day," admitted Garuba, another of those who will return to the NBA revalued, with the stripes of someone who dominated

... Stars of that world that wants to conquer that of Azuqueca de Henares.

"From the first day I knew it. I told everyone. I told the coaches. I knew we were going to win and reach the decisive moment, all of us perfect and here we are", he confessed.

"Today Juancho would have hit her with his foot and put her anywhere. I'm super proud," Brizuela proclaimed.

And Scariolo concluded, acknowledging that he was facing one of the most special nights of his entire career.

"It's my most unexpected success, obviously. But hey, at the World Cup they gave us fifths. You always look at individualities, but we have something more on a collective level. Without egos, with generosity, altruism, availability to work", he admitted and compared with the past: "My work has been much harder on other occasions. With other personalities, merging players who had to change their role a lot, accept leaving their ego, letting themselves be trained in a context in which almost no one was entirely happy This right now is playing basketball,

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