They did it the hard way

Luis Scola was the hero of the final and when the chips were down against Italy, the Pumas did an excellent job of smothering the three-point shots and getting the ball into the lane. No wonder that Scola finished top scorer with 25 points and 11 rebounds.

"First the football, now us, a country like ours who's having some problems, it must feel good been able to be there and share all the joy."

"I love Italy but winning the gold medal doesn't matter who is the opponent. An unique feeling an I'm just very happy."

"I said that this is going to be my last match in the national team, go home with the gold medal it's amazing."

"We missed that little extra in our performance that we had in the other matches. Maybe we took it too easy already having in mind that at least a silver medal was guaranteed, but it's ok like this, we played an Olympic final, the most beautiful match of the world, we lost but it's ok."