It was imposed without ‘gazing’ in the Netherlands and ended with the Eurobasket qualifiers by the national team

Bent her Netherlands Without “gazing” and completing its obligations in the Eurobasket 2025 qualifiers National!

Having secured her qualification from her away game with the Czech Republic, the “blue whites” may have faced many difficulties aggressively, with Vassilis Spanoulis trying faces and shapes, but eventually managed to confirm her superiority in the opposite. In the crowded “D. Tofalos’ of Patras, taking the victory with 63-53!

Thus, she completed her presence in the 6th group of qualifiers as a pioneer with record 5-1now turning its eyes to the final phase of the event, which will take place next summer in Cyprus, Finland, Poland and Latvia!

In the half, the “golden” national who won the 2005 Eurobasket was awarded, with its members aware of the apostasy from the world that filled the closed stands!

Top to Spanoulis’ team were the Larentzakis (14p, 5 rebounds, 3 assists), Toliopoulos (11p, 4 rebounds, 2 assists), Zughe (9p, 9 rebounds) and Papapetrou (9p, 6 rebounds, 3 assists), while the Nikolaidis He made his debut with the Men’s National, with 7 points and 2 assists!

The match:

With Toliopoulos, Kalaitzakis, Avdala, Papapetrou and Zougri, our National match began, with Vassilis Spanoulis not having at his disposal compared to the game against their Czech Republic Papagiannis, Mitoglou, Mitrou-Long In his dozen with Necipoglou, Tsalbouri, Tanouli, Tanouli, Nikolaidis and Kouzeloglou.

The game started with the two teams being inappropriate in its first minutes, and with the Zughe To put our national team forward (4-3) with his successive nails! Kalaitzakis wrote 7-3 with a three-pointer, with the restriction diminishing in the basket, with all 5 points of the guests. Dorson blocked impressively Toliopi And the decoration again scored from afar for 7-8, while Larentzakis responded with his own three-pointer and gave half an assist for Papapetrou’s nail, which was 12-8. The Dutch continued to be apt in their three-pointer, with Krach reducing to 12-11, but the Papapetrou and Larentzakis responded to 18-13 before the guests made a small 5-0 series, equaling for the 18-18 of the first period.

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The two teams continued not to find a pace aggressively, with Netzipoglou and Kouzeloglou making 22-18, while the Dutch was left without a 5 whole racing minutes, with our national team making a series of 8-0 and escaping with 26- 18, thanks to another nail of Zughe. THE Toliopoulos He put his first three-point lead in the match for 29-21, Holantes reached 5 consecutive personal points for 29-23, but went to the bench with three quick fouls, while one of his three-pointer Nicolaides (in his debut) after an assist behind Kalaitzakis’ back, gave our national first double -digit lead on the night (34-23), with the end of the first half!

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The third period started with Kalaitzakis Scoring with Lei Ap for 36-23 and play another good defense, forcing the Dutch in a front-to-back violation, before the feet reaches 13 personal points, reducing to 36-28. Toliopoulos with his crazy three-pointer “wrote” 39-28 and Larentzakis Follow after a three-point three-pointer made it 42-28, before Zugris scored among three defenders, for 44-30. With our national team having total control of the match, without having to “press the throttle”, he was found for the second time at +14 (48-34) after his shots Nicolaidesbefore the dijsta and crash shaped the 48-39 at the end of the quarter.

THE Nikolaidis He stole and nailed to 50-39 at the start of the fourth period, with Daikstra making 50-41 with hook, while the two teams continued to be inappropriate and not finding a pace aggressively. Krach, with his shots reduced to 50-43, for Toliopoulos to come, to score five consecutive points, reaching 11 and putting the “blue whites” at +12 (55-43). THE Zughe With a double attempt after Larentzakis’ assist he made it 57-44, but Dorson threw the difference in a single-digit (57-49) with successive nails, forcing Spanoulis to call a timeout, with 2:46 left for the end. Entering the “final straight”, our national team did not lose its temper, taking the victory with 63-53.

The quarters: 18-18, 34-23, 48-39, 63-53

The statistics of the match

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