A clearly superior Poland comfortably defeated Slovenia 105-95 at the premiere of the fourth group of Eurobasket 2025 that hosts Katowice and took a step for the “16” of the competition, leaving Luca Doncic’s company with the “Grunn” and Grinia.
The “hosts” gained two -digit differences and found a way to get away with the pressure of the 2017 European champions, who expected them all from the Mavericks star, who only scored with shots and bad percentages in three -pointers.
The leaders of the winners were Lloyd with 32, 25 Penic with 25, while Pluta with 15 and Baltsovsky with 11 points were greatly helped. Doncic had 17/18 shots, 4/5 two -pointers and 3/9 three -pointers, with the support of Murad with 17 and 15 points.
The match
Ponitika and Doncic were aggressively led the two teams until the end of the first quarter, while Lloyd had started a “furious” and with his three-pointer gave +5 to the “hosts” of the fourth group, with the first period completed at 25-29.
At the beginning of the second period, a 7-0 series of Poles brought 37-30 starring Lloyd, who maintained +6, having taken the “baton” aggressively from his teammates. Slovenia’s 5-0 series reduced to -1, Lloyd “silenced” and Doncic’s three-pointer brought Lacinski 46-45 to finish the first half.
Poland’s three -pointers at the start of the third period kept +5 with +6 for the “hosts”. Ponitika, Baltsovsky and Pluta helped in a 8-0 series for the Poles’ +13 and a new 5-0 series brought +14 with many aggressive options. Ponitca brought +15, but the Slovenians found the solutions and with their own series of 5-0 reduced to -11. Doncic brought -9, but the many aggressive choices of the Poles at that time in the opposing racket brought +14. Prepletz’s consecutive three -pointers reduced to -8, before “cutting his legs” of the Slovenians his three -pointer for 69-80.
A 4-0 series of Slovenia at the start of the fourth period reduced to -7 for the 2017 European champions, but the Poles responded with a series of pressure on Blagonda Sekulic players for +12. Doncic woke up at a critical point and with a 5-0 person reduced to -7. The Poles again fought two -digit differences with various series and now maintained +10 with +12 starring the former Panathinaikos ace. Doncic’s shots gave some hopes on the Slovenians, but the final 105-95 showed the difference between the two teams in the match.
The quarters: 25-29, 46-47, 69-80, 95-105
The statistics
Source: Sport Fm
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