Her first and probably last friendly before the Olympics is tonight National basketball team facing it Puerto Rico on “Palataki” (18:30), ERT, News Bulletin 247 and sport-fm.gr). PAOK’s stadium will be packed with around 8,500 spectators.
Nine days after winning the Pre-Olympic Tournament, the Greek team now enters the final stretch for the Olympic Games that begin for them in Lille on July 27 against Canada. There are talks about one more friendly, which if canceled will be with Serbia in Belgrade next Monday.
The mission, which traveled last night to Thessaloniki, does not include John Antetokounmpo due to an infection that kept him out of today’s training as well, Nick Kalathis and Giannoulis Larentzakis who is in the final stages of recovery from problems sustained in the Pre-Olympic tournament and Costas Antetokounmpo who continues treatments to overcome the problem that kept him out of the Pre-Olympic tournament as well.
The 12 that will be available to him Vasilis Spanoulis they are Kostas Papanikolaou, Giorgos Papagiannis, Dinos Mitoglou, Tomas Wokap, Vassilis Toliopoulos, Vassilis Charalambopoulos, Panagiotis Kalaitzakis, Dimitris Moraitis, Michalis Lountzis, Giannis Kouzeloglou, Nikos Hougaz and Giorgos Tanoulis.
The Puerto Rico secured for the ninth time in its history the presence at the Olympic Games by conquering the Pre-Olympic Tournament as host in San Juan. Nelson Colon’s team will take part in the Olympic Games for the first time since 2004 in Athens, when they finished sixth. For the third group in Lille they will face USA, Serbia and South Sudan. In the team’s roster stand out Jose Alvarado of the Pelicans, Tremont Waters who works for AEK, Gian Clavel and George Condit who went through Prometheus, but also Jordan Howard and Isaiah Pinheiro who have a remarkable career in ACB.
Ten Greek victories in a row
Greece and Puerto Rico have met eleven times at Men’s level, all in the last 30 years. The Greek team has ten wins, having only been defeated in the first meeting between the two teams and counting only successes since then. Analytically:
06/08/1994 (World Championship/Toronto) Greece-Puerto Rico 64-72
07/24/1996 (Olympic Games/Atlanta) Greece-Puerto Rico 80-69
2/8/1998 (World Championship/OAKA) Greece-Puerto Rico 71-64
08/23/2004 (Olympic Games/Greek) Greece-Puerto Rico 78-58
28/08/2004 (Olympic Games/OAKA) Greece-Puerto Rico 85-75
07/05/2008 (International Tournament/Bamberg) Greece-Puerto Rico 93-86
07/19/2008 (Pre-Olympic Tournament/OAKA) Greece-Puerto Rico 88-63
29/08/2010 (World Championship/Ankara) Greece-Puerto Rico 83-80
04/07/2012 (Pre-Olympic Tournament/Caracas) Greece-Puerto Rico 98-84
31/08/2014 (World Championship/Seville) Greece-Puerto Rico 90-79
19/06/2021 (Acropolis Tournament/OAKA) Greece-Puerto Rico 77-69
Source: Sport Fm
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