How sweet would the revenge be for Poland’s Marcin Gortat, whose Orlando Magic lost to Gasol’s Los Angeles Lakers in the NBA finals, to send Spain packing in his home country?

Tomorrow’s match between defending World Champions Spain and Eurobasket hosts Poland will determine which team will move on to the Eurobasket quarterfinals.

With Lithuania mathematically-eliminated, and the unbeaten Turkey and Slovenia having punched their ticket to the next round, it’s between Poland, Serbia, and Spain for the last two spots out of Group F.

If Spain loses, they’re out. Serbia, who is also 2-2, wins the tiebreaker when they shocked Spain on day one of Eurobasket.

Poland hopes to be ungracious hosts
The once-mighty, talented and favored Spain has struggled in this tournament, looking uncharacteristically sloppy in both wins and losses.

Still no one wants to meet the potentially-dangerous Spain when they finally figure things out.

Spain is led by Pau Gasol‘s 16.8 points, 8.8 rebounds, and 1.8 blocks.

Rudy Fernández and Juan Carlos Navarro have provided primeter offense with 14.8 points and 13.0 points respectively.  Felipe Reyes has contributed 9.6 points, Marc Gasol 6.6 points and 6.6 rebounds, and Ricky Rubio 5.6 points and team-high 4.6 assists a game.

Poland has struggled here and there, but has won enough games to be placed in tomorrow’s do-or-die situation for the right to move onto the quarterfinals.

Tomorrow they hope to be ungracious hosts.

With Gortat anchoring the middle (14.8 points, 10.8 rebounds, 2.4 blocks), American-born, naturalized David Logan running the team (15.8 points, 5.0 assists, 1.4 steals), and Maciej Lampe adding 12.2 points and 6.8 rebounds, Poland hopes to be ungracious hosts to the Spanish.

Spain lost the 2007 Eurobasket finals on their home turf and is looking to redeem themseleve, while a Polish win over Spain would be one of the biggest wins in their history.

The deathmatch is set to be played in Łódź, Poland, Wednesday at 18:15 local time.