Now starts the real Eurobasket 2025 For National! Tonight in the evening (21:45, Novasports Start, ERT1, Sport-fm.gr, BWINSPOR FM 94.6) Greece faces the Riga’s “Xiaomi Arena” Israelin a knockout match for the ’16’ phase of the event.
Our country’s representative complex completed the first round of the European Championship In the first place in the third group with a record of 4-1. Its whole Vasilis Spanoulis It was dominated by Italy (75-66), Cyprus (96-69), Georgia (94-53) and Spain (90-86), losing only to Bosnia/Herzegovina for the fourth race (80-77).
So far in Eurobasket, the “official favorite” runs with excellent rates behind 6.75 meters. Our country may have the 7th best performance in scoring with 86.4 points per game, however, it is first in three -point percentage, shooting with the excellent 45.6% (11.4 apt in 25 attempts per game)! A major role in this is the imposing presence of John, who pulls players on him and with his high basketball IQ finds his shocking free teammates.
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“Basketball has changed in Europe, everyone is playing very quickly. Israel plays an up tempo game, plays freely, trying with various defenses, with some zones, to change the rhythm. We know the Israeli school. We need to be ready to play our game and understand that by getting into the knockout games we must be ready spiritually and physically. “ stated among other things Before the game our federal coach.
As far as the Israelfinished in 4th position of the fourth and demanding group Katowice with a 3-2 record, losing to both Slovenia and the hostess, Poland. His victories came against Iceland (83-71), Belgium (92-89), but also France (82-69), showing capable of doing “damage” as long as you do not have the necessary concentration.
Of course, from the Ariel Beit-Halahmi roster, NBAER stands out, Denny Avdiyawhich has 16.8 points and 6 rebounds in the tournament on average, being his team’s driving force in the attack.
Note that the two countries were faced almost a month ago during their preparation in a friendly match in Limassol, with the Israel prevailed with a score of 75-58, against a national play without John, Sloukas, Papanikolaou and Mitoglou. Indeed, this was Greece’s first defeat in this couple after 28 years and 12 consecutive victories in official and friendly.
The couple’s winner will face Lithuania in the quarter -finals, which on Saturday night (06/09) took the Baltic derby by dominating me with 88-79 of Latvia, With Greece looking for her qualification tonight for the 18th time in her history in the event!
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Tonight is Greece’s 52nd match against Israel at the men’s level, with the national team having 29 wins over 22. In detail:
15/07/1952 Olympic Games (Helsinki) 54-52
13/08/1960 friendly (Bologna) 43-65
11/06/1964 Pre-Olympic Tournament (Geneva) 41-53
09/06/1965 Eurobasket (Tbilisi) 67-69
27/08/1967 Friendly (Tel Aviv) 68-77
28/08/1967 Friendly (Ein Hiloc) 84-75
31/08/1967 Friendly (Tel Aviv) 83-71
30/09/1967 Eurobasket (Tampere) 81-91
05/05/1968 Friendly (Tel Aviv) 60-70
12/05/1968 Friendly (Tel Aviv) 73-72
20/05/1968 Friendly (Athens) 55-60
02/06/1968 Pre-Olympic Tournament (Sofia) 58-56
25/05/1969 Eurobasket qualifiers (Thessaloniki) 70-66
04/10/1969 Eurobasket (Caserta) 95-62
16/08/1970 Friendly (Athens) 94-91
18/05/1973 Eurobasket qualifiers (Vienna) 73-75
30/06/1973 Friendly (Tel Aviv) 88-86
30/08/1973 Friendly (Tel Aviv) 88-86
14/06/1975 Eurobasket (Belgrade) 76-87
29/05/1981 Eurobasket (Bratislava) 71-82
19/05/1983 Friendly (Turin) 83-85
04/01/1984 Friendly (Stockholm) 116-89
24/05/1984 Pre-Olympic Tournament (Paris) 120-95
23/05/1985 friendly (Tel Aviv) 80-122
24/05/1985 Friendly (Tel Aviv) 70-87
26/05/1985 Friendly (Tel Aviv) 72-90
25/11/1985 Friendly (New Faliro) 86-91
26/11/1985 Friendly (New Faliro) 93-100
15/07/1986 World Cup (Barcelona) 79-82
04/01/1987 Friendly (Stockholm) 87-101
25/10/1987 Friendly (Tel Aviv) 102-110
30/06/1988 Pre-Olympic Tournament (Den Bush) 85-70
23/06/1993 Eurobasket (Karlsruhe) 74-79
26/06/1995 Eurobasket (Athens) 59-49
08/10/1995 Eurobasket qualifiers (Athens) 75-73
30/10/1996 Eurobasket qualifiers (Tel Aviv) 86-84
04/06/1997 Friendly (Jerusalem) 68-62
05/06/1997 Friendly (Haifa) 64-67
01/07/1997 Eurobasket (Tzronona) 85-82
08/08/2001 Friendly (Thessaloniki) 94-82
22/01/2002 Eurobasket qualifiers (Peristeri) 85-61
23/01/2002 Eurobasket qualifiers (Tel Aviv) 74-73
26/08/2003 Friendly (Glyfada) 73-54
12/09/2003 Eurobasket (Stockholm) 63-56
20/09/2005 Eurobasket (Belgrade) 67-61
03/09/2007 Eurobasket (Granada) 76-66
09/09/2009 Eurobasket (Poznan) 106-80
06/08/2011 Friendly (Nicosia) 67-66
27/11/2017 World War I (Heraklion) 82-61
28/06/2018 World War II (Tel Aviv) 96-78
10/08/2025 Friendly (Limassol) 57-75
Source: Sport Fm
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