In Limassol, Cyprus, the interest of the Third Group culminates Eurobasketwith the National basketball To counter with Spain (21:30, ERT1, Novasports Start, Live from Newsit.gr) in the 5th and final races of the competition group phase.
National basketball, which comes from its first defeat in the competition after losing 80-77 to Bosnia and Herzegovina, wants to make it 4-1 in the Eurobasket group stage, winning Spain in a game of huge interest. In the event of a victory, the “blue -white” will end in the 1st place in its group, and otherwise our representative band may finish either 2nd or 4th, depending on the other results.
The positive for Vassilis Spanoulis is the return of Yiannis Antetokounbos and Giannouli Larentzakis, who were missing against Bosnia, with the first being the barometer of the national team.
Spain, on the other hand, lost to Italy (63-67), with the band of Sergio Skarololos with a back on the wall, as it has a 2-2 record in the event and defeat by Greece, in conjunction with Bosnia’s victory over Georgia, in danger of staying in the first time!
This is how the match has the character of the final for both teams, with national basketball wanting to show that it was a bad bracket against Bosnia, while winning Spain, the “bad demon” in big tournaments.
It is recalled that the latest “blue-white” meeting against Spain was last summer at the Paris Olympics, when Greece lost 84-77 in the group stage.