The game in Badalona I had a friendly surname, but it meant a good meter of the distance between Space y France. Those of Scariolosin Aldama u Alberto Díaz and with Brizuela Without playing the whole second part, he showed character and sends the warning that it will be a bone in the next Eurobasketbut it was not enough to beat (67-75) to an applied and physical France. Spain approves the exam, although it still has to go by note.
The meeting began with the two very erratic national teams in attack, with only 13 points scored in the first five minutes of the game. The annotations arrived mostly from the free kick, with the former Madrid player Guerschon Yabusele As a great protagonist, which was up to four times practically consecutive to the personal line.
With the passing of the minutes it was France who improved the offensive percentages and the Gauls put 14-25 at the end of the first period after a triple on the horn of Alex Sarr. The script did not change in the second quarter and France took the maximum of the encounter with a very good mate in transition from Zaccharie. And when Spain seemed worse, the team led by Sergio Scariolo put the sixth march in the accelerator with a very successful Santi Yusta To press the score with a partial of 8-0.
A basket on the horn before Darío Brizuela's break left the first half in a 35-43 that caused the Spaniards not to leave the meeting despite the multitude of non-forced losses. Of the first twenty minutes. In the resumption, and after a tribute in the break to the retired Quino Colom, Pau Ribas y Álex Barrerathe French put one of the baskets of the night with a real triple of Nadir Hifi in a leg cornering one leg.
And as expected, Spain reacted from the hand of the public and came to only put themselves at just two disadvantage with two consecutive mates of the players of the players of the Valencia Basket Jaime Pradilla y Sergio de Larrea. Spain endured a new French arreón and managed to finish the third quarter with a hopeful 52-58 after a good shot of Willy Hernangome on the horn that allowed to dream of the triumph to those of Scariolo for the last ten minutes of shock.
In the last period Spain tried in a thousand ways the comeback, but every time there was an approach, the French responded from the long distance. Elie Okobowith a triple corner, he put the 56-64 in the absence of six minutes to the end that forced the Spaniards to write down practically everything in the final stretch and to make very good defenses. That did not happen and France sentenced two minutes to the end.
