Spain outplayed Russia in the first quarter with a 20-2 lead and you could hear the audience laugh at the embarrassment the Russian players felt. But into the second quarter the Russian coach changed up everything in the defense, putting up a zone against the Spanish players, making it tough for the Gasol brothers to score easy bucks under the basket.
Good coaches knows that zones are most vulnerable against shooters and you can only break down a zone defense in two ways, the first and most obvious one is to run down a zone and the second one is to shoot down a zone. Spain is famous to have amazing 3 point shooters so this was actually a dream coming trough for the Spanish players but it seemed like the Spanish players could not make their shoot and Russia took advantage of this and won with a thrilling 77-74
Russia is now in the lead of Group B and US owns Group A. Let see what will happen when the playoffs starts.
