Spain vs Slovenia: central match of the round

Spain national team for another time confirmed the status of best team in the world. Few days ago we saw another match between the finalists of 2019 World Cup, this time on a Japanese court. On this match Argentinians were beaten by Spaniards with only a ten-point margin, on the World Cup it was two times bigger.

South Americans put up a decent performance in the first quarter, but in the second one they were hopeless. In forty minutes Europeans scored 81 points, while their opponent - only 71. Sergio Scariolo's lads are currently on the second spot and have already guaranteed a spot in the quarter-final.

Slovenia national team is on the first spot in «group of death» and have already guaranteed a spot in the quarter-final. Just like Argentina, they have destroyed Japanese team. Europeans won that game by 35 points. Hosts managed to close down Luka Doncic. Balkan sniper scored 25 points, almost two times less than in the first round. 

Zoran Dragic put up a brilliant performance that night, he scored 24 points. For another time champions of Europe have scored more than 100 points (116:81).