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Spain advanced to the title game with a pulsating바카라 웹사이트95-88바카라 웹사이트victory over Australia, erasing a double-digit deficit in regulation to hand the stunned Boomers their first loss of the tournament.
Marc Gasol fuelled Spain's win in the first World Cup elimination game to go to double overtime바카라 웹사이트by scoring 33 points with six rebounds and four assists. Ricky Rubio added 19 points, 12 assists and seven rebounds as Spain outlasted a Patty Mills-inspired바카라 웹사이트Australia.
Mills poured in 32 points and Nic Kay came off the bench to score 16 points and grab 11 rebounds for the Boomers.
Gasol, who won an NBA title with the Toronto Raptors in June, has a chance become only the second person to add a World Cup crown to an NBA championship in the same year.
Lamar Odom did the double in 2010 with United States바카라 웹사이트and the Los Angeles바카라 웹사이트Lakers. After the Lakers bested the Boston Celtics in seven games that year, Odom stood atop the podium three months later in Istanbul with his USA team-mates hoisting the Naismith Trophy.
"I just cherish every moment for what it is. I don't try to double up. I want to give the maximum for every occasion. It is two completely different situations. I'm going to give my best to win a World Cup for Spain," Gasol told FIBA basketball.
Argentina, having바카라 웹사이트stunned바카라 웹사이트Serbia in the quarter-finals, continued their바카라 웹사이트incredible바카라 웹사이트run in China with an바카라 웹사이트80-66바카라 웹사이트victory against France in Friday's other semi-final, with seemingly ageless Luis Scola, 39, and Facundo Campazzo leading the way. Argentina last played in the final in 2002, coming up short against Yugoslavia.
"They were just the better team tonight," France's Rudy Gobert said. "From the first to the last minute, they were more aggressive and played more as a team...바카라 웹사이트It was complete domination."
Spain have바카라 웹사이트a chance to join the United States, Yugoslavia, the Soviet Union and Brazil as only the fifth country to win multiple FIBA World Cup trophies.
