Spain won a gold silver flavored with the United States

No more Olympics and with them the tournament in basketball, which ended in the victory over Spain for U.S. 118-107.

It may seem cliché and perhaps it is, but I'm very much mistaken in asserting that the party has raised this morning was the largest in the history of basketball ... and I am right in saying that nothing has been the largest the history of Spanish basketball.

Spain came into the game with 37 points of difference that fit into the group stage in mind, but she did not aminal by some Americans who saw gold as his own before starting the game. And it did not fare so no, that easy. In fact, Spain dominated (all you can dominate a game against the rival) in the first quarter, which had only Yankee advantage at the end. The annotation, scandal, were to 120 points each at the end of the match.

Jose Calderon suffered from the bench for not being able to play but if you missed it, we won another very important man: Juan Carlos Navarro. It was fine throughout the whole tournament, but in the end it was again. Noted and wanted the ball more than anything in the world. That's the difference between the greats. In fact, given the foul trouble of Raul Lopez and a slight mishap when a finger of Ricky Rubio, Juan Carlos Navarro had to base. All this supported by the great Rudy Fernandez, who has a brash almost as large as the golden child. In everyone's mind will be his mate Dwight Howard's face, telling you of what to expect next year in the NBA.

Pau Gasol became top scorer of the tournament, a minor triumph that might have been crowned with the Olympic title. To dream? For nothing. Because the absence of about eight minutes until the end of the match, Spain, which she lost by 15 points, got two down. Two points. Every country getting up early to see how these players achieved the more difficult. Yet another good run of Americans turned to bring us back to reality. That and the fifth foul from Rudy Fernandez, who was a blow ... which regained it, because just two minutes from the end of the meeting gave us the scoring just 4 points down.

The whole stadium was in Spain and many whistles were heard toward Americans. Towards the Americans? Perhaps better to say to the arbitral trio, who ate the steps again and again and saw things contrary faults on both sides of the track. The U.S. step is police court, but the officials looked to the bench with the face of Spanish: "We can not do anything." It is very sad to have to talk about the referees in a game like this, but the end when the game was already solved for the Americans, was laughing. technical foul to the bench to claim a resounding Spanish steps, and then a technical foul on Ricky Rubio for technical foul claim.

Spain lost but left the bar high, and can be left with the consolation of being the only team, along with Argentina (which was finally bronze) that put the U.S. on the ropes.

By the way, terrific criticism of Juan Carlos Navarro arbitration when the trio just three seconds remaining to end the match. He grabbed the ball and made steps. The colleges could not sanction him. Were already world champions. Today they have been champions of delivery and the fight.