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Team Spain beats Slovenia behind fearsome foursome, announces final roster

August 11, 2010

Barack didn't actually make the final cut...

The Spanish Basketball Federation is reporting that coach Sergio Scariolo has finalized his 12-man roster, and that Carlos Suarez has been passed over for Caja Laboral’s Fernando San Emeterio.

Scariolo informed his team of the decision after yesterday’s 79-72 win over Team Slovenia in Ljubljana; he was quoted on the Spanish Basketball Federation’s official website as saying, “We said goodbye to Carlos Suarez with the feeling that with one more year of maturity and experience, he will make a step that will allow him, in my opinion, to be a major player on this team for many years.”

(“Nos despedimos de Carlos Suárez con la sensación de que con un poco más de madurez y un año más de experiencia dará un paso de progresión que le permitirá, según mi opinión, ser durante muchos años un jugador importante en la selección.”)

On Tuesday, Spain took care of business in Ljubljana in slightly different fashion than usual. Though the backcourt wasn’t especially impressive, the frontcourt foursome of twin-towering starters Marc Gasol and Alex Mumbru (who got the start at PF), plus Fran Vazquez and Jorge Garbajosa were basically unstoppable. This quartet of bigs combined for 51 points highlighted by 14-of-17 shooting on twos.

Sani Bečirović was Team Slovenia’s top scorer, with 17 points scored in under 27 minutes of play.

This weekend, Spain will be playing South American teams Brazil and Argentina in what should be some very revealing games – at least for the antipodean sides; figure Spain wins both handily.

Oh, and that final 12-man roster looks like this: Jose Manuel Calderon, Víctor Claver, Rudy Fernandez, Jorge Garbajosa, Marc Gasol, Sergio Llull, Alex Mumbru, Juan Carlos Navarro, Felipe Reyes, Ricky Rubio, Fernando San Emeterio, and Fran Vazquez.

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Comments: 10
  1. migala
    15 years ago

    What a great game it was! Congrats to Slovenia, I really hope they go far in the World Championship. There was a lot of passion in the game, and also bad blood between some players, but sportmanship overall.

    The last 3 plays for Spain in overtime (Marc Gasol’s fadeaway, Ricky’s crazy layup and Rudy’s rainmaker) were ultimately the key.

    Too many bad free throws for Slovenia too.

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  2. migala
    15 years ago

    BTW: your roster is wrong for 1 player: change Rafa Martínez for Sergio Llull and it will be 100% correct!

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    • Os Davis
      15 years ago

      Thanks for the heads up — correction made!

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      • migala
        15 years ago

        That was quick! Good job!

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  3. Y
    15 years ago

    As a neutral spectator, I must notice referees were so terrible, it was awful. Especially in the 4th quarter and overtime (a span during which Spaniards were called for at least 2 times more fouls than Slovenians). But, despite that, respect to the greens. They really played a good game.

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  4. migala
    15 years ago

    Yeah, they were bad, but you also get a lot of experience by having to deal with that and overcoming the difficulties.

    If Slovenia makes some adjustments they are going to be soooo dangerous. For instance, Dragic should shoot less and pass more, sometimes he gives the impression of not being part of the system. As good as a player as he is, I feel Slovenia play better AS A TEAM without him.

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  5. Taykin
    15 years ago

    “This weekend, Spain will be playing in South America against Brazil and Argentina in what should be some very revealing games – at least for the antipodean sides; figure Spain wins both handily.”

    I think they will play in Spain actually, in Logroño to be precise.

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    • Os Davis
      15 years ago

      @ Taykin: Yep, you’re right. My fault due to an error in translation (sigh). Now fixed.

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  6. migala
    15 years ago

    Unless it´s bizarrely ironic, of course.

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  7. Alex
    15 years ago

    It occurred to me that individuals are bashing team USA for bringing JaVale McGee, and are ranking Spain–and now Greece–over team USA because of this addition, who, lest we forget, may not even make the final roster. Spain, however, has Victor Claver; is he really better than McGee?

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