Juancho Hernangomez put a bow on his run with Spain at EuroBasket 2017 with a modest five-point, five-rebound performance in the tournament’s third-place game against Russia that clinched a bronze medal for his home country — Spain’s sixth-straight medal at the European Championships and their ninth in the last ten years.
It was a modest final act from the 21-year-old who had been Spain’s second-leading scorer for much of the tournament and a jack-of-all-trades for the heavy favorites. The swingman went for 18 points and 12 rebounds in a Spanish rout of Romania. He scored nine points, grabbed five rebounds and held Bojan Bogdanovic to 6-16 shooting a day later against Croatia and finished the tournament averaging 8.