Return to Greece and the victories for our national team!
A few days after defeats by Serbia and Israel in the Cyprus tournament, our country’s representative complex took our second pink card in the fourth friendly preparation for Eurobasket 2025, dominating with Score 69-61 of Montenegro In Thessaloniki and “PAOK Sports Arena”!
The ‘blue -white’, who struggled without Giannis Antetokounbos In yet another friendly game, it came to victory thanks to its terrible pressing and highly aggressive defense, but also in the terrible fourth and last quarter, where the individual score was 24-10! What retired again was the long shot, with Greece … breaking them behind 6.75m, finishing the game With 5 apt three -pointers in 35 attempts (14%)!
Top for the winners was the Dinos Mitoglou with 20 points and 9 rebounds, with the Costa Antetokounbos (11p, 5p., 3rd., 2k.), The Tyler (13p) and the Giannouli Larentzakis (10p, 4s., 3k) to follow in performance. For the Mavrovouni, the team superstar stood out, Nikola Vutchevic With 13 points and 7 rebounds.
The match:
OR Our national team The game began with Sloukas, Kalaitzakis, Papanikolaou, Samondourov and Mitoglou in its original five. Quite balanced was the match in the first minutes, with the Mitoglou to lead in the attack and with six personal points to write 6-7 at 5 ‘, at a time when Samondurov During the same time he had two impressive plugs, dominating high above the crown!
Then the entry of Tyler In the parquet he gave energy and speed to Greece’s regional line, which led 10-8 in the 6th minute. At that point, the Montenegro He uploaded “turns” and with Alman and Jovanovic managed to run an individual score of 11-2 for +7 and 19-12 at 9 ‘. What the “blue whites” could do in the remaining time was to reduce At 15-19 of the first period, Thanks to Dorsey’s points, with our national team being “hurt” by 0/8 behind 6.75 meters.
Completely different was the scenery at the beginning of second quarter, With the representative complex of our country playing amazing defense. With them Thanasis and Costa Antetokounbos to make tremendous energy and intensity on both sides of the parquet and to achieve impressive baskets, Greece ran an 8-0 run For overtaking and 23-19 at 13 ‘, Rising the fans in Palataki!
But the failure behind the line of the tripod continued to a degree … irritating! Something that took full advantage of Montenegro with the protagonist Vutchevic He went ahead again with a score of 23-26 two minutes later. We had to wait 15:20 ‘and a total of 16 unfortunate three -pointers to achieve a shot behind the 6.75m, with Samondurov “breaking the pomegranate” for 26-26. Shortly afterwards, Papanikolaou also succeeded a three-point (2/19 in the first half) with Mitoglou writing 31-26 at 28 ‘. But the visitors reacted and with Vutchevic and Drobniak managed to score easy points and go to the locker room for the locker room for the locker room. respite at +3 and 32-35.
The game remained closed in the third quarter, with Vutchevic opening the score in the second quarter before the Dorsey and Costas Antetokounbos with 4 and 2 points respectively reduce At 38-39 at 23 ‘. At that point, the National team lost its concentration in the back of the parquet, perhaps the result of the many lost three -point attacks, so the guests find easy points in the transition and raise the difference for the first time. at +9 for 38-47 at 26 ‘.
With a “blue -white” outburst the outburst began Fourth and last period, With Larentzakis succeeding in the first attack and Mitoglou then succeeding a beautiful basket from the low post For 50-51 at 31 ‘! With the defense declaring … and our internationals to make determination and tension in their game, Greece has managed to overtake a scoring with a terrible outbreak in the middle of the period, where with Mr Antetokounbos, Dorsey and Kalaitzakis wrote 59-54 at 35 ‘, with the national team succeeding 9 points within 51 seconds!
With psychology and the world getting into the match equation, “Official Favorite” increased the difference to +10 (65-56) with Larentzakis’s lucky three-point lead, finally reaching the victory more easily than Whatever the final 69-61 shows.
The quarters: 15-19, 32-35, 45-51, 69-61.
See the statistics of the race here.
Source: Sport Fm
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