Turkey’s dream ended

OR Our national team fought with passion and soul in front to nearly 11,000 friends of Greece, However, he was unable to get the coveted victory and qualifying in his quarter -finals Eurobasket 2025.

In a game where he returned from two -digit differences in the third quarter, the “blue -white” fought a great battle to the chef’s parquet against TurkeyBut at the finale, he got out of a breath, missed some critical shots, and so fatal The defeat with a score of 83-72 came.

A big difference in the game that largely found the outcome of the result was the three -point, with Turkey shooting with the excellent 60% (12/20) and Greece with just 24% (6/25). At the same time, despite the excellent pressure of the Greek defense, our representative band was not able to make the most of the total 21 errors of our guests and our 13 steals.

The top for the winners was Senurek with 19 points and McCuan with 10 points and 13 rebounds, while for our national team, the moving was moving. Penelope (16p, 6s.), The Artemis Spanou (20p, 5p., 3rd.), The Robin Park (15p, 4p) and the Mariella Fasula (14p, 4p).

The match:

Quite balanced was the start of the match, with the Our national team to play very read in defense and attack, blocking as much as possible Great “weapon” of Turkey, the binoculars Teaira McCuan. With Foggy and Pavlopoulou To score from four points each, Greece led 8-7 in 5 minutes, before the guests with a quick 5-0 series made it 8-12 a minute later.

Then the “blue whites” dominated the parquet thanks to its excellent defense with which it forced the Turks to many mistakes (7 in the quarter). With successive steals and Span and PARKS At the peak of spear by scoring all Greek points, Peter Preca’s team took advantage of the transition and fast basketball, closing the first quarter At +4 and 21-17!

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Similar was the scene and at the beginning of second period, with both teams exchanging ‘hits’ and our national team consistently maintained a small but important lead For 30-27 in the 14th minute. Maccauan’s departure from the parquet to take a breath gave Turkey the opportunity to play faster and liberated, which was good. And this is because, with the Ouzun and Senureek the whole of Ekrem Memnun, managed to keep Greece without a basket for three minutes, while ran A 16-2 individual score for 43-32 at 18 ‘. All that our national team managed to do until the half time finale was to make some big defenses and with Pavlopoulou’s three -point lead to go In the locker room with the score at 35-43.

The short break the break … it seemed to have cleared the minds of our athletes and filled her with passion and intensity to enter and fight in the parquet for the qualification. Something that appeared since the beginning of the third period, where the Artemis Spanou… caught fire with 7 gathered points, with Pavlopoulou at 22 ‘bringing the match equal for 45-45 With free three -point after stunning ball release!

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Taking energy from the world on the Faliro stadium that had entered the equation of the race, the representative band of our country continued in the same high tempo. With Robin Park to take the aggressive ‘bucket’ and score 7 big points, Greece led 55-50 at 26 ‘. At that point, whatever good “built” our national team broke it within 3.5 minutes. A little bit of fatigue, ill -fated shots and closed rotisson, a little bit of the rise of the guests, allowed the Turkey to run a 12-0 run for the 62-55, With Fasoula’s shots and the beautiful basket of Pavlopoulou in the last 30 seconds to They form 59-62 of the quarter.

Greece was quite nervous fourth and last period, With Turkey running a small 5-0 series for 67-59, before Pavlopoulou breaks the … pomegranate for our national team after three minutes in the quarter (61-67). The guests responded with a three -pointer by Chakir, with the Foggy Then achieve two beautiful baskets after Spanos ‘magic assists for 65-70 at 35’. However, the stunning tonight of Senurek with five personal points sent the difference at +10 (65-75) a minute later. Despite the moving efforts by Pavlopoulou, Spanou and Fasoula, the difference was up to +13 (70-83), with Greece diminishing in the finale In the final 72-83.



The quarters: 21-17, 35-43, 59-62, 72-83.

See the statistics of the race here.