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Live blogging Eurobasket 2011: Spain vs. Great Britain

September 2, 2011

BallinEurope is live from Panevezys again today for more EuroBasket action, beginning with Spain vs. Great Britain. As the Brits continue to chase that elusive first-ever major tournament win, Spain seeks to continue its stomping through Group A. After two games, the powers of the group — Spain, Turkey, and Lithuania — all sit on top at 2-0. The heavily-favored defending champions look to be in first going into the off-day on Saturday … they best not be looking ahead, though.

Join the live blogging here, just below the break. Enjoy the game!

First quarter. 9.32: Pau starts the scoring and on the first possession, Great Britain really resembles the Dallas Mavericks — wooden statues of the Dallas Mavericks — as Rudy Fernandez runs rings ’round ’em.

6.34: Question from Lithuanian journalist next to me: Which will be the bigger blowout, Spain-Britain or Serbia-Israel? Right now, it’s Spain up 4-2 and … what?!?!? Israel *up* 7-1? Wow, moral victory there.

6.30: The only ones who can beat Spain are Spain? Maybe so — they’re 2-of-8 on shooting early.

5.38: Rudy Fernandez with the reverse layup after a sweet block of Luol Deng by Marc Gasol. Heating up? It’s Spain, 9-2. (And Israel now up 11-10. So much for *that* upset.)

4.38: Fernandez slams it home on the fast break … would you believe Rudy leads all scorers with 7? That’s with the score 11-2…

4.14: Luol Deng hits the three, again having to do so much for Team Britain. No one misses Ben Gordon more…

2.54: They’ve even got Deng taking the ball out. Spain up, 13-7.

2.13: Few enough people are in attendance that all can easily hear the three dozen British fans counting down the shot clock, “Five … four … three,” and let BiE tell ya, they’re counting it down on nearly every Britain possession. 15-7 to Spain.

1.31: Deng with a FT. He’s got four points and four boards with the score 15-8.

0.05: Rubio does a nice job killing some clock, drives the lane, draws a triple team, dishes to Pau for the easy two. 19-14 to Spain.

0.02: Deng with another two on FTs. Now six and four for him on just 1-of-3 shooting as Spain focuses on this one-man team.

Second quarter. Pau and Fernandez accounted for 15 of Spain’s 19 first-quarter points. Deng and Daniel Clark accounted for 11 of Britain’s 16.

Elsewhere, Israel is still up on Serbia in the second quarter, 27-25. Now that would be a massive upset, but BiE’s not believing again … meanwhile, Britain is down just 19-18. Whoa.

8.35: Rubio with the nice steal, but can’t convert. Clark just put Britain up, 21-19. Crazy.

6.52: Marc hits the side of the backboard on a shot from the baseline. Spain is c-c-c-cold, just 9-of-24 now. Tie game at 21. Sorry, now 9-of-25 after another Marc miss — at least he draws the foul off Deng.

6.13: Now that’s Spanish basketball. The breakaway and Navarro tees off for a three. Spain up, 26-21.

5.16: One thing Spain does well in this tournament: draw fouls. Kyle Johnson hits Marc, Marc makes both FTs, Joel Freeland in the game for Britaiin. 28-23, Spain. O, and Serbia’s brief lead has been given up again. 36-31 over there.

4.26: Random thought — one of the best adverts for Lithuania (even beyond the awesome basketball fanaticism) has got to be the “dancers,” i.e. cheerleaders for this tourney. Red-blooded males, hear BiE: Lithuanian women are *fine*. And residing in Hungary, BiE can say that with some expertise.

2.54: Deng bricks a three, and Britain’s serious lack of depth is once again on display. Only four players have scored, and high scorers Deng (11) and Clark (10) are a combined 6-of-15 from the floor; with Britain managing just offensive boards, well, what can they do?

1.03: It really shouldn’t even be this close, with Spain shooting just 37% (13-of-35) … 34-30 to Spain.

0.27: Freeland and Clark with consecutive blocks, but Britain blows the opportunity with a sloppy turnover. Fernandez dunks. 38-32, Spain.

0.00: Britain’s playing decent ball, all things considered, though Spain’s 14-of-39 shooting certainly helps. Spain up, 38-32.

BiE almost wishes he were in Siauliai: Israel’s up at half over Serbia, 41-35, though to be fair, coach Dusko is rotating nearly every player on the roster into the game, perhaps assuming Israel won’t advance and figuring a loss there would be irrelevant…

Third quarter. 9.32: Spain still looking a bit haggard, Fernandez boots the ball, then fouls. Britain hits a two to make it 40-34.

9.01: Of course, Spain can always go to one of the Gasols … Marc for a two in the lane. 42-34.

8.37: Wow, Clark with a nice 15-footer at the 24-second buzzer. 42-36 to Spain.

7.40: Again, Marc, then Pau for the reverse layup. 46-36.

6.42: Marc to Pau … damn, that’s unstoppable in the paint. Especially for the likes of Britain. It’ll be interesting to see what Turkey’s huge dudes have to say about that. 50-36 and Spain may be opening it up.

4.47: NICE REJECTION of Pau at the rim by Deng — suddenly, the 40 British fans sound like 400.

4.28: And Pau RETURNS THE FAVOR, sending Freeland to the floor with the force of his stuff in the paint.

3.33: You’re just not gonna stop Pau’s seven-footer on the baseline. Spain up, 54-38, and the cries of “MVP! MVP! MVP!” go up.

3.30: Deng puts in points 13 and 14. 54-40 to Spain.

1.25: Navarro is having one of his freezing games, missing two on one possession to bring him to 1-of-11 shooting in this game. Good thing for Spain it hardly matters; they’re up 58-42.

0.05: Rubio finally produces something YouTube-worthy with the jumping pass to Ibaka who places it in from two feet. 60-42 for Spain’s biggest lead of the game.

0.00: Kyle Johnson with the far-off three at the buzzer for his first points of the tournament. At the end of three, it’s 60-45. Even one of those patented British comebacks won’t be enough here, one fears. The Brits seem destined to remain oh-for-tournament play…

Fourth quarter. 9.16: Can they make it respectable? Clark with the tip-in in the lane. 62-48 to Spain.

8.11: More of the same, with Gasol getting the two-footer and one. 67-48, Spain.

6.28: Nice follow for Ibaka after the Rubio miss. Now 71-50 to Spain, and all appears to be over except for the proverbial crying…

5.24: Even the British fans are disconsolate; Marc completes his double-double with a 10th and 11th rebound.

4.08: You know it’s over when Sergio Llull is hitting wide-open threes from the corner. Spain up, 75-53.

3.03: Victor Sada, a.k.a. Spain’s human victory cigar, is in. ‘Nuff said (blogged?).

2.05: Every player except Sada has scored for Spain now, in fact.

0.51: Final question: What the hell is Marc Gasol still doing in this game?

0.00: And there’s your result: Spain, 86-69, and predictably now 3-0 in the group. We’ll be back in a bit for Poland vs. Portugal…

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  1. Voecklin
    14 years ago

    No mention of Van Oostrum? Come on. Guy looks like he could be the real deal. Big impact with his energy.

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  2. Dan
    14 years ago

    Question: Is Guy Pnini the dirtiest player at the European Championship? Or, in general.

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