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Gabriele Santoro
ROME (Sept. 12) - Kevin Durant (28 points) off the dream World Turkey Bogdan Tanjevic . The '88 class wing back after sixteen years without the U.S. on the roof of the world and is the new global star like the absent Lebron James and Kobe Bryant excellent. For coach Mike Krzyzewski (Duke's mentor) and Jerry Colangelo responsible for the use bas ketball team
we can say mission accomplished. After the disasters in the world home to Indianapolis in 2002 and 2004 nell'Olimpiade with the "nightmare team" have been able to rebuild a winning team, first with the new edition of the Dream Team that has swept the gold in Beijing 2008, now the World Cup with the experience of the couple Billups-Odom and a new generation of the various phenomena with Rose, Durant, Westbrook, Gay who have re-established the dominance of its basketball. A technical and physical dominance adapted to the European game.
The third step of the podium salt Lithuania, Serbia, which crashed in the final for bronze: the 99-88 result.
Turkey wins silver medal as the first the world, all convinces with excellent organization and receives the applause, the incessant chorus of people now in love with the sport. Bogdan Tanjevic is the principal architect of this success: the precious fruit of many years of hard work for the Turkish Grand National Assembly. The dangerous curve cancer has not stopped the coach of Montenegro, which are difficult and painful months after he recovered the bench where for thirty-nine years has got magic, emotion and trophies. From brave man to keep the promise "the doctors will have to chase me, not me them." Now the wait for the new venture as technical director of Lottomatica, even if the desire is compatible with health conditions to remain as coach until the Europeans turkish 2011.
the game. On the eve of the final Hidayet Turkoglu was talking to limit the shots available to Durant and easy steps to make no mistakes in the open field to the U.S.. It is ungenerous to the hosts say that there has never been true challenge. Turkey resists for a quarter and a half, 17-14, but at 18 'on account of the turnovers came at 9 and the U.S. already have a higher reactivity shown by 12-2 on second shot opportunities. Kevin Durant is a spectacle, an unsolvable puzzle for the defense area Tanjevic. The American racing, having fun, and when he wants Mark: 20 'report makes 50% of the points, 20 on 42. The red and white chasing ten lengths away, 32-42, tirano con percentuali deficitarie 35% da2 e 33% da3 e soccombono a rimbalzo. L'unico a tenere la rotta è Turkoglu con 11 punti e 7 rimbalzi.
Al rientro in campo dal riposo lungo ci si attende l'ultimo assalto turco, ma Durant toglie qualsiasi velleità. Il tempo di piazzare due triple, 28 punti in 26', e scende il sipario sulla contesa, 32-50. Arslan si mette in proprio con due siluri, ma in transizione la coppia Westbrook (13 punti)-Gay con 5-0 chiude i conti. Nell'ultimo periodo c'è spazio per lo show formato Nba con Odom (15 punti): schiacciate e contropiedi spettacolari. Il divario sale oltre i venti punti, 50-72, fino al conclusivo 64-81.
Bilancio e numeri World. Patrick Baumann, secretary general of FIBA, called it "the most successful edition in sixty years history of the world." A success for the great sporting spectacle offered by the national twenty-four present despite the absence of NBA stars, to the extraordinary participation of the host nation dragged from the successes of their favorite numbers and the first ever recorded of the media coverage of the event.
One billion people in more than two hundred countries have watched the matches: a catchment area is to conquer all of China which reached its peak of 65 million viewers for the elimination round match of the China-Greece. In the interval of the final with a beautiful ceremony, the President of Federbasket Dino Meneghin, along with fifteen other stars of the basketball world (Divac, Sabonis, Gomelski etc) between players and coach, has also officially entered the "Hall of Fame" (House of Stars) Fiba. The final approval for the monument and the guidance of the Italian basketball movement that must raise, from the 2011 Europeans.
Europe comes with a bronze medal and many certainties, from Balkan and Baltic new recruits. Serbia has shown the world a great reservoir of talent, destined to dominate the next continental anni.La Lithuania but does not have many players is the usual mix of quality and youth. Spain was disappointed but without the leadership of Pau Gasol, but it is to swear that for the next World Cup in 2014 will return to the home of the limelight. In Latin America Luis Scola of Argentina is downward and the return of Manu Ginobili will not be enough to revive it. Brazil was the only team to embarrass the United States, with the long Splitter and Varejao is now a global reality. From the rest of the world with China that few new phenomenon Yao Ming after struggling to establish itself. The best photos of this year will triple from eight feet Milos Teodosic who gave his semi-final to Serbia and tow Erden which has opened its doors to Turkey in the final. Fragments of great basketball and a certainty: the Americans have finally taken up the game they invented.
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