Was defeated by the strong Serbia In Cyprus or National.
In the second friendly of her preparation for Eurobasket and a few days after her home win over Belgium, “blue -white” lost with 76-66 From the overcrowded Serbia, to Limassol and the stadium which will host our Group’s games in a few weeks.
By presenting a pretty good racing face defensively, but also facing several difficulties aggressively, our national team was found to lose with two -digit differences in most of the second half, and failed to complete the overthrow that attempted in the fourth quarter, when it came to 3:30 pm.
With Giannis Antetokounbos, Vassilis Toliopoulos and Vangelis Zougri not traveled to Cyprus, Netzipoglou, Liotopoulos staying out of the 14s and with the Hugazz, Karagiannidis, Bazina, Nikolaidis on the bench but not in the bench, Israelwhile followed by Montenegro (14/8) clashes in Thessaloniki, and with Latvia (20/8), Italy (22/8) and France (24/8) in Athens, before being thrown into the battle of Eurobasket!
Top for our national team was the Mitoglou (18p with 6/10 two -pointers and 2/2 three -pointers), while two -digit Sloukas (11p) and Dorsey (10p). On the other hand, for the winners absolute MVP was the Yokicwho finished the game with double-double (23p, 19 rebounds).
The match:
Katsiveli, Dorsey, Papanikolaou, Mitoglou and Samodurov at “5”, chosen for his original five Spanouliswhile the Pesic He started his team with Avramovic, Bogdanovic, Jovic, Petrusev and Jokic.
The match began with the two teams coming off appetizing aggressively, with Katsiveli’s Clash-Foul and Jovic’s three-pointer. Jokic with his classic Fade -way made it 5-4, while Dorsey made the coast-to-coast after Samondurov’s impressive block for 5-6. THE Dorsey He scored for three, making it 7-9, while the two teams continued to go hand in hand. Samondurov was in three-pointer after a flawless ball of the ball for 11-14, while Mitoglou Reached 8 personal points for 17-21! THE Costas Antetokounbos With a terrible follow-nail he made it 19-23, the Serbs closed the first quarter with a 6-0 series for their 23-26, before Larentzakis tied to 26-26 With his three -point!
The second period began with the two teams making constant mistakes in their attacks, and after a magnificent collaboration between Antetokounbos, Kostas nailed emphatically after Thanasis’ assist. Marinkovic scored three, making it 29-28, and although our national team started with 4/7 three-pointers, then followed a 0/6 from afar, while the Serbs went ahead +6 (34-28). Sloukas gave the solution aggressively, reducing to 34-31 with three shots he made after a foul he got from Jokic, but the Serbs had a better pace offensive, escaping for the first time with +8 (41-33) with a continuous basket of Jokic, while our national baskets were back. 43-34. THE Yokic It closed the first half by “touching” the double-double (10p, 9 rebounds), while the top for Greece was Mitoglouwith 10 points (5/6 two -pointers) and 2 assists.
The third period started with Yokic Complete his double-double in less than 14 racing minutes and with Serbia escaping for the first time in the game with double-digit difference (45-34). Sloukas and Dorsey They reduced to 45-38, but Jokic continued to dominate both sides of the parquet, restoring his team to +11 (49-38). The Serbs maintained the ‘security’ difference in favor, with our national team facing many difficulties aggressively in the third quarter. THE Larentzakis With acrobatic basket-foul reduced to 51-43, while Mitoglou reached 15 personal points, shaping with his three-point 55-47 of the third period.
Larentzakis reduced to 6 (55-49) at the start of the fourth quarter, but Serbia responded again and returned to +11 (60-49), thanks to five consecutive Bogdanovic points. Pesic’s team was also ahead of +12 (66-54), but Papanikolaou with two consecutive three -pointers and the Sloukas With another of his own, they reduced to 5 (68-63). THE Mitoglou He continued in the series for 69-66, but there was constant errors and consecutive points of Avramovic to return to Serbia at +8 (74-66) and finally get the win with a victory with 76-66.
The quarters: 26-26, 43-34, 55-47, 76-66
The statistics of the match
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