Eurobasket 2009

From 7 to 20 September was played in Poland the EuroBasket 2009, which will bring together the best players in basketball Europeans to see which is the best country playing the sport of basket. Spain as a favorite partly because of the huge leap in quality that we have made in recent years.

Will be the second time in history that Poland hostel this great quote from basketball, which is repeated every two years (European, World, European, Olympic Games, European, ...) and for which he had already broken a few selections before pre-European. These selections were:

Poland, for hosting. Spain, Russia and Lithuania to qualify directly for the Beijing Olympics, and Greece, Germany, Croatia and Slovenia, to qualify in the Olympics. The other teams and groups are:

Group A: Greece, Croatia, Macedonia and Israel.
Group B: Russia, Germany, Latvia and equipment to be determined.
Group C: Spain, Serbia, Slovenia and the UK.
Group D: Lithuania, Turkey, Poland and Bulgaria.

In each three-team group advance to form two groups of six teams in the second phase. These groups are: A1, A2, A3, B1, B2 and B3, and the other group will be: C1, C2, C3, D1, D2, D3, with the letter the group you belong and the number who occupied the post. Only in this second phase will play against teams that clashed in the first. He classified four teams from each group to form the quarter-finals.

This tournament has a special interest for Pau Gasol, who eventually will be in the national team after being called by Sergio Scariolo and answer yes, after hesitating a few days. Himself Pau Gasol said he would only hope Spain win the European Championship with another ring with the Los Angeles Lakers. And he missed the last shot in Madrid against Russia, which could have given us the victory, missed the final against Greece in the 2006 World Cup through injury, and in the Olympic Games United States beat us in a memorable match. Spain is the favorite. Their main enemy is themselves. And the players are a pineapple. It's a shame you can not be Jose Calderon injury. The rest are:

Ricky Rubio, Carlos Cabezas, Raul Lopez, Juan Carlos Navarro, Rudy Fernandez, Alex Mumbrú, Berni Rodríguez, Víctor Claver, Felipe Reyes, Jorge Garbajosa, Marc Gasol, Pau Gasol, plus guests Sergio Llull, Saul Blanco and Guillem Rubio.