OR Youth National It was imposed with .107-66 on the Czech Republic in the second Eurobasket U20 match at the Nea Bodrum Indoor Gym in Heraklion. Tomorrow Greece faces Romania at 18.00 in the last match of the group phase.
The good intervals, most solutions and aggressively the presence of Alexandros Samondourov (16p in the first half) helped the Greek team maintain a steady lead. The Czechs may have threatened their very strong defense by vehicle. 8-8 (3’10 ”), however, was 16-9 (4’30 ”) by Touliatos who essentially helped Paraskevopoulos writing 27-19 (7’40 ”).
The Czech Republic approached again (27-22, 8’30 ”), but Greece continued to get (and) from its bench with Andreas Patrikis contributing substantially 38-28 (13’30 ‘), as well as Lefteris Liotopoulos (42-28, 14’30’ ‘). The epilogue was written in the first half by Spartal who made 54-37 and Avdalas who already had 11 rebounds and 5 assists!
Paraskevopoulos was the one who with the “Good Morning” in the third period sent the difference to +20 (57-37), to continue in an impressive Abdala and Samodorov manner for 63-40 (23 ‘). Greece had imposed its game and it was something that was shown in the score with the difference reaching +32 (76-44, 27 ‘). Rosakeas from 6m75 sent the difference to +40 (80-49), Kostas Papadopoulos gave all his players time with the curtain falling with the final 107-66.
Records: 30-24, 54-37, 89-51, 107-66
Greece (Papadopoulos): Kapetakis 14 (3), Touliatos 14 (3), Paraskevopoulos 8 (2), Rosakeas 3 (1), Soulis 3 (1), Rozakis 3, Avdalas 8 (15p), Spartalis 9, Samondourov 19 (2), Liotopoulos 14 (2),