A beautiful game was the one between Canada and Spain, as beautiful as the whole of Group A. In the game, which Canada won by a score of 88-85, coach Jordi Fernandez’s team made the first push in the second period, going into halftime up +11 thanks to a 30-19 second quarter. However, Canada was never able to close out the game, allowing Spain to stay in the game until the end thanks to a comeback led by Brizuela. Sergio Llull hit a very hard -1 triple with 3.1 seconds left to give his team a chance to believe until the end. But Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is ice cold from the lunette, Sergio Llull’s last prayer is not answered: Canada is first, Spain is eliminated instead. Australia secures second place thanks to the defeat of Spain.<\/p>\n
For Canada, there are 20 points from Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, 18 from Andrew Nembhard and 16 from RJ Barrett, author of a very heavy triple in the last minute of the game.<\/p>\n
Spain was not satisfied with Brizuela’s 17, Llull’s 13 and Abrines’ 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Canada did not tremble in the final, the heart of Brizuela and Llull was not enough: Spain was eliminated, it was Rudy Fernandez’s last dance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":399604,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-399605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-olympic-games"],"yoast_head":"\n