Giannis Antetokounbos was galloping, and the national team was going all the way to the group’s first!
Making a stunning appearance from the first to the last minute, the Greece She unfolded all her virtues in the parquet of Limassol’s “Spyros Kyprianou” and with her “weapon” her steel defense and the magical “Greek Freak”, he crushed with score 94-53 to Georgia For the third match of the Eurobasket group phase 2025!
Greece was greatly released the ball with 28 assists, put hands on the fire (11 steals), and for another game it had high rates behind 6.75m. with 14/25 three -pointers (56%).
Top for our country was the Giannis Antetokounbos with 27 points, 8 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals, with Dino Mitoglou to add 17 points and 3 rebounds, and Tyler With 14 points, 4 assists and 3 rebounds to follow. For agriculture, which the Sengelia played just 4 minutes and Bitange recorded DNPSermantini (11p, 7p) and Mamuklalasville (14p) were rescued.
Now, “Official Favorite” made it “3 in 3” in the group and is very close to secure the first of the third group. Recall that next Tuesday (02/09) Greece will face the Bosnia/Herzegovina and Thursday (04/09) the Spain For the last match of the group. The goal of course is the absolute and 1st place of the group to have a better and more favorable path in the knockout.
The match:
OR Greece It started the game with its classic basic five, with Slouka, Dorsey, Papanikolaou, Mitoglou and Yiannis Antetokounbos pressing parquet. The pace at the start of the match was quite good, with the harsh and strong duels standing out early. “Greek Freak” entered the pitch appetizing and scored four impressive points before the baton was taken Mitoglou and with eight gathered points Write 12-9 in 5 minutes.
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With our national team getting out awesome energy on the back of the parquet, By making great defenses and many steals, Vasilis Spanoulis’ entire entirely raised his psychology and aggressive plan, finding easy points on the open court. Holding the Georgians without a good shot and with just two shots for about five minutes, the “blue -white” with the front of it John In creation and score, but also with Toliopoulos and Dorsey scoring from afar, he managed to close the first period ahead with a score of 22-13.
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With the Second Unit of Greece getting into the parquet somewhat, Georgia took advantage of the juncture and with a 7-2 individual score in its first three minutes second period, reduced the difference at 4 for 24-20. The entrance of Mitoglou and Slouka into the top five gave us an aggressive “breath” in Greece, with Panathinaikos forward being on a terrible day and giving valuable offensive solutions. With the “Official Favorite” to gallop on the open court and magically the ball, Mitoglou and Yiannis fired the difference to +14 (22-36) to 16 ‘!
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With a terrible Mamukelasville nail and a three-pointer of Sanza, the typical hosts reduced to 27-36, before a new outburst of our national team with a three-point lead Dorsey and five points of amazing John in a fantastic and stormy two -minute, With Kalaitzakis putting the … icing on the cake in the finale For +17 and 46-29 of the half! A 20 minutes in which National had 7 steals, 13 points in surprise and Yiannis and Mitoglou (2/2d, 3/3m, 2/2b) at 16 and 15 points respectively!
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The representative complex of our country continued in the third period from where it left it. In fact, it did even better, with the “blue -white” dominating the parquet and breaking on both sides of the parquet! With Giannis in a … semi -state situation scoring seven points and Papanikolaou, Kalaitzakis and Slouka scoring from a basket, our national team launched the difference At +28 and 60-32 at 23 ‘!
Giannis Splashing Threes.
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With our defense declaring “present” throughout the match, “Official Favorite” reached the amazing Double Score and 64-32 two minutes later, a difference that kept at these heights up to the finale of the quarter (41-69). Indeed, the score gave the opportunity to the coach Spanoulis to withdraw his basics early and to give them the necessary breaths and moments of rest in the face of the continuity of the tournament.
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Like that, the Fourth and last period It acquired a procedural character. This not only did not “allow” our national team to relax, on the contrary, continued with the same aggressive plan on the two sides of the parquet, constantly raising the difference. With Spanoulis giving time to participate and to all players, The three -pointers to fall … rain From Dorsey, Katsiveli and Larentzakis, but also Thanassis and Yiannis offering a spectacle, Greece took the victory with the deafening +41 and 94-53, Thanks to an unanswered 15-0 series in the last five minutes!
The quarters: 13-22, 29-46, 41-69, 53-94.
See the statistics of the race here.
Source: Sport Fm
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