Spain is still uploaded to the 3×3 basketball podium, the discipline that promoted and made many fans known with the unforgettable Olympic silver of the women’s team in the Paris Games. Vega Gimeno, Sandra Ygueravide, Juana Camilión and Gracia Alonso chained that summer success with the gold medal in the European and this Sunday a very renewed team has conquered in Bangkok another silver in the champions Cup, the first edition of a tournament created by the FIBA and that gather the best teams of each continent.
Spain won the ticket as a European queen and went to the appointment with many new faces. Ygueravide, Spar Girona player, and Camilión and Alonso, of Movistar Students, did not live this time because they dispute the Endesa League with their clubs and this week the Queen’s Cup. Yes, Vega Gimeno repeated, withdrawal from 5×5 basketball after passing through Zaragoza and stretches his passion for 3×3 at least one more season. The combined that Nuria Martínez has directed in Bangkok, instead of Ana Junyer, completed Ceci Muhate (Ensino Lugo), Alba Prieto (Ikd Euskotren) and Ainhoa Gervasini (Cadí La Seu). They gathered at the airport and it was the first time they played together a tournament, but it was barely noticed.
The National Team won in the Australian Group Phase by 21-13, to France 14-17 and Thailand by 21-8 to move on to the semifinals, in which he defeated Germany with much superiority by 20-8. He only fell in the final against Canada by 15-13, but a silver of a lot of merit was hung for the renewal of the team and the continuity of a competitive style to continue on the podium. There are three finals in a row in three competitions after the Games and the European.
The medals of Vega Gimeno and Company have hooked to a very attractive sport that is played on the middle track, a single basket, three against three to whom more points in 10 minutes, or wins the one that previously reaches 21. possessions of 12 seconds, free throws after the sixth foul. The successes behind the triple line are worth two points. Inside, one. In the dead times, no coach does not intervene, but it is the players who ask and decide the strategy. If there is an extension, overcome the set that has two advantage points. This is 3×3, the discipline in which Spanish players do not get off the podium.
