Rarely, the selection will find a more conducive rival to add a victory that allows him to continue growing in a tournament in which curves appear with Italy and Greece in the next dates. Spain is measured this Sunday (17.15, La1) to Cyprus, which opens in first -level international competitions. He has participated in championships of small countries.
Here he plays in a host condition of one of the groups of this Eurobasket. If not, impossible to be. Is One of the weakest teams that have ever participated in the tournament. Currently occupies the Post 84 in the FIBA ranking, between Mali and Ugandato get an idea. Spain is fifth.
Darrall Willis Jr., the star of the Chipre team.
The handicap, shared by the two teams, will be the rest. Spain will have less than 19 hours between the end of the meeting against Bosnia and Herzegovina and this. “You have to recover and rest well, that we have another important game and you have to get victory,” said Willy Hernangómez when he left the pavilion already at dawn. Fortune has wanted the second meeting of the National Team on consecutive days to be before the weakest enemy of the group.
The Chipriot team does not have much to choose from. The country has 1.3 million inhabitants, which would be equivalent to the population of Aragon, and the number of federated players is around 6,000. The League has only nine teams.
Physical deficit
In addition, there is a clear physical deficit. The equipment average of the equipment is 1.94 meters. There are only two Spanish players, Mario Saint-Supery and Darío Brizuela, who do not reach that height. The tower already star, with 2.06, is the nationalized wing Darrall Willis Jr.a globetrotter that has passed through Greece, Russia, France, Italy, South Korea, Japan and Taiwan.
“We do not have the physical capacity of Spain or Greece. We don't have Giannis, Aldama Oa de Larrea …, so we have to develop tactics at another level. But but The difference in current basketball is the physicist. As much as strategically, it is very difficult to gain if there is a big physical difference ”, assures Pablo Cano da CostaUruguayan coach who is part of the coaching staff of the Chipriot team. He also directs the San Agustín Bay, promoted to First Feb.
Simon Michall makes an entrance to the basket in the match against Greece.
In FIBA classification windows for this Eurobasket, Cyprus did not win any of his six games in a group that shared with Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and France. All lost to an average of 29.3 points with a maximum difference of -46 before the bosnians and a minimum of -15 against the Gauls. He got into the tournament as a host. Here he fell into the debut against the Bosnians for 91-64 and this Saturday for 69-96 in front of a Greece that granted rest to Giannis Antetokounmpo.
The Spanish team should add a triumphrelatively broad and allow rotations and do some tactical test. The victory will not have much prize, because Cyprus will all be won, but doing so is indispensable condition to be a little closer to the round of 16. The option of writing a black page in the history of Basketball Patrio style is not contemplated The 'Angolazo' of the 1992 games or the 'Chinazo' of the 1994 World Cup. They are interviews of ancient times.
