Crime and punishment for Greece, she turned her dream of medal

Finally in the dream of Greece for a painful medal. OR Youth National lost with a score of 72-70 by France In “Two Aorakia” and stayed out of the medal zone Eurobasket U20after a “thriller” judged in the final seconds.

The “blue -white” put her hands on and … took off her eyes after measuring 12/26 shots, with some of the inappropriate ones coming to a decisive point. At the same time Greece allowed 19 offensive rebounds to the “tricolors” who took 22 points From these.

As if they weren’t enough, with score at 70-70 and National to prepare for its latest attack, the MVP of the race up to that point, Neocleslost the ball through his hands and allowed the Kilian Maloaya to put the winning basket. Then the Greek guard missed three -point and the match was completed in a painful way for the Greece.

For Greece, the Dudes He had 17 points, 6 rebounds and 10 assists, but he was fatal in the finale. 14 points and 6 rebounds had the Lefteris Liotopouloswhile 12 points, 8 rebounds and 3 plugs the Alexander Samondurov. On France’s side, he stood out with 18 points and 9 rebounds Roman Domon.

Our National is now turning to rankings for positions 5-8, and will face the Saturday (19/07) the loser of the match between Lithuania and Slovenias.

The match

The French started the match with a three -point lead Maistorovic (0-3), while with two Domon shots took a lead with a score of 1-5. Liotopoulos reduced a mid-distance (3-5), while Avdalas equalized to 5-5. Samondurov with his first basket put Greece ahead (7-6), with Spartalis and Pietti exchanging baskets for 9-8. Captain with a nice movement scored from average distance, before he had a shot for 12-10. THE Dudes He found Samondurov nice, who scored a foul goal and made it 15-10. The French were ease aggressive rebounds and found a three-point lead with L’Atang (15-13), but with Rosakis’ basket in surprise Greece took a lead with +5 (18-13). THE Cinnamon He responded with a three-pointer to France (18-16), before L ‘Etang puts two more for 18-22. The first period ended with a score of 20-24 in favor of the “tricolors”.

OR Greece He quickly equalized in the second quarter, with Rosakis’ consecutive baskets for 24-24. THE Bouquet He scored a leap and one shot (24-27), with Captain and Samondurov re-giving the lead to our national team, which was playing great basketball in the attack (28-27). Two Maistorovic’s shots and one of Domon’s Lei wrote 28-31 for the “tricolors”, with Greece finding its first two three-pointers from them Lobby And Tuylon, overtaking 37-35. THE Domon He responded to France with a difficult long shot (37-38), with the visitors maintaining their lead by halftime, ending 39-41.

In the second part, Avdalas brought the match to Pontus with a difficult three-point (42-43), but Pierre And Domon wrote 42-47. Liotopoulos stole and scored with an upside down (44-47), before shooting a middle distance for 46-47. Malaya has resolved France (46-49), with National making constant bad choices in the attack. Avdalas rapidly ran to surprise and brought Greece back to Pontus (48-49), but two of his lost shots Spartan And a three-pointer of Wimpo brought France to 48-52. Avdalas won a foul and reduced with a shot (49-52), before Liotopoulos puts Lei AP for 51-52 of the third quarter.

In the fourth period, Samondurov brought out an impressive defense and Paraskevopoulos wrote 53-52 in surprise. Domon, Samondurov and Maistorovic put in successive three-pointers (56-58), with two L ‘Etang shots writing 57-60. Successive lost attacks of Greece gave the right to Domon Scoring again for France’s 57-62. Ethniki reacted with good defenses and shots from Samondurov, Toulato and Liotopoulos, reducing to 61-62. Avdalas put Greece ahead (63-62), and responded to Pietris’ basket for 65-64. Avdala and Pietti continued, resulting in the new tie (67-67), with the Greek player putting 1/2 shots for 68-67. After the successful defense of the National, Rozakis went to the shots but lost them both, with Jacques putting his own for 68-69. Avdalas gave Spartal (70-69), but the continuous rebounds of the French brought Jacques again. He lost one (70-70), but the Dudes He was wrong after the rebound and Maleaa wrote 70-72. Avdalas failed for three and the match ended 70-72.

The quarters: 20-24, 39-41, 51-52, 70-72

Greece (Papadopoulos): Kapetakis 5 (2/10 shoots, 2 rebounds), Touliatos 4 (1/4 three -pointers, 5 rebounds, 5 assists), Paraskevopoulos 2 (2 rebounds, 2 assists), Soulis 2 (1 rebound), Rozakis 8 (6 rebounds, 5 assists) Assists), Spartalis 4 (4 errors), Samondourov 12 (1/4 three -pointers, 8 rebounds, 3 cuts), Liotopoulos 14 (1/5 triples, 6 rebounds, 2 Assts), Patrikis 2, Pagonis.