By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
Spain is considered the favorite for the gold, the Gasol brothers are back but other key members of the team like Rudy Fernandez, Nikola Mirotic and Victor Claver are out.
That’s why the final roster may include some new faces. As Scariolo explained: “To this day, the final roster of the team is not “locked”. We have at least one spot in doubt and we want to decide without any hurry”.
According to Scariolo, this version of the Spanish NT may have issues that “are more defensive than offensive. The team structure is very different with the need to compensate defensively important absences.The most demanding part of the work is the tactical construction of our game system, which has an identity for many years but has to be readjusted. We’ve been playing the same way for eight or nine years, but it’s true that Marc returns after two years of absence and is one of the most important players in the tournament. And he is a very different player compared to the last time he was here”.
“Thanks to the versatility and versatility of our big men we can keep a few of the things we did for other years, but we are trying to enrich our game thanks to the passing ability of the front line”, explains Scariolo who intends to use Sergio Llull as the starting shooting guard and also take advantage of the Gasol brothers from the three points line.