Stone National with super John cleaned Italy and is now seeing first!

With the right in Eurobasket 2025 our national team came in!

Thanks to the amazing ‘Blue -white’ defense which was “present” almost throughout the race, but also in the unlikely appearance of Giannis AntetokounbosGreece prevailed more easily than the Italy’s 75-66 final In the “Spyros Kyprianou” of Limassol, at the premiere of the 4th group of the event!

Although it made several mistakes (16 instead of 13 assists) and had a problem with rebounds again (12 aggressive Italy), its whole Vasilis Spanoulis He was never back in the score, deposited quality and passion for the parquet and taking many things from many, managed and got the group’s “derby”!

Top of all was none other than ‘Greek Freak’ finished the match with 31 points (14/20d), 7 rebounds and 2 assists, with their Dino Mitoglou (9p, 4p), Costa Slouka (9p, 4s.) And Thanasis Antetokounbos (6p, 3p, 1k. For the “Adjouri”, Nikolos Meli stood out with 15 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists, with the super in the team, Simonto be “closed” by the Greek defense and stay at 4 points with 1/11 in the plain!

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The match:

OR Our national team He started the fight with Slouka, Dorsey, Papanikolaou, Mitoglou and Yiannis Antetokounbos in the five. The game was quite balanced over the most of the first period, with the two teams going hand in hand in the score, however, that the country’s representative band never lost the lead.

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In spite of the fact that the Italians played defense from early With two players on Giannis Antetokounbosthe one with two elaborate baskets wrote 8-4 and a little later with an impressive fade away did 13-10 at 7 ‘with his Niche honey On the other hand, holding the “Adjouri” on his own with 9 points in this time. In the last part of the quarter, Greece played great defense, kept its opponent at zero and with a new magical nail of Giannis, but also from the first two “blue -white” three -pointers in the match against Toliopoulos and Papanikolaou, It closed the first period at +10 and 22-12!

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With Toliopoulos’s basket started the second quarter By raising the difference to +12 (22-14) for the first time, before Italy reacts with the three-pointers of Galinari and Ricci Reduce to 25-18 at 12 ‘. With Giannis Antetokounbos not having an opponent on the rival racket and Sloukas adding a big three -point one, “Official Favorite” maintained the difference at a satisfactory levels. For 32-23 at 14 ‘.

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Giannis Antetokounmpo at Half-Time:
14 PTS | 7/10 FG | 4 rebb#Eurobasket | #Makeyourmark pic.twitter.com/mflctvxzze

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At that point, the national team threw somewhat “turns” with the typical guests exploiting it and “hitting” the offensive rebound, through which they found several points from second opportunities. Somehow, and without playing particularly well, they were able to limit Greece to just 2 points within 4 minutes, reducing with honey and spanolo at 36-32 of the first half. A halftime that found the National with 4 assists for 9 errors, Giannis and honey at 14 points, Italy at 5/21 three -pointers (24%), but also Fondecus at… zero!

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Giannis Antetokounmpo at Half-Time:
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With a basket of dioff from aggressive rebounds started the third periodwith Sloukas responding with a three -pointer and Yiannis Antetokounbos taking the baton and with two emphatic nails to write 43-36 in the 22nd minute. With Spaniolo and Galinari, the Italians temporarily reduced to 3 (45-41) three minutes later, with the Greek defense declaring “present” to the difficult and holding the whole of Vasilis Spanoulis.

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With ‘Greek Freak’ doing whatever he wants the opposing defense and the Thanasis To enter the parquet and to give great energy on both sides of the parquet, our national team escaped to +9 (50-41), with Dorsey writing from the line of shots 52-41 at 27 ‘! A difference that maintained at these levels with characteristic comfort, thanks to Dorsey and Mitoglou’s points and Thanasis’ Amphylts, closing the period At +11 and 56-45!

To fourth and last period, Vasilis Spanoulis’ total reached +14 (61-47) at 33 ‘, before a relaxation was made and by Niang and Spaniolo, with Fontekio’ breaking ‘the pomegranate after 10 unfortunate shots (!) And reduce to 66-60 at 36’. Giannis and Thanassis Antetokounbos With two critical baskets they kept the difference for the National, with “Greek Freak” scoring four more points in the last 30 seconds and to shapes the final 75-66.

The quarters: 22-12, 36-32, 56-45, 75-66.

See the statistics of the race here.