Without John Antetokounbos, the National basketball showed to have a problem! By +13 Greece was found to lose even with 14 BC from Bosniahaving a big problem in rebounds and lost 80-77 for the 4th Eurobasket teams. Tonight Italy – Spain, as well as the “blue -white” match with “Rocha”, will judge the group’s first.
The match
National Greece may have been lined up without Yiannis Antetokounbos and Giannouli Larentzakis, but its start was impressive in the game against Bosnia. Finding a score from the three-point lead, the blue-white was quickly ahead of a double-digit difference (18-7), starring Dorsey and Papanikolaou.
Gradually Bosnia has turned around and started beating Spanoulis’ team, where it hurts, that is, under the racket. Nurkic had no opponent in his own measures, Atic and Robertson began scoring the district and the Bosnians approached 6 points (25-19) at the final of the first quarter.
In the second period, National Greece started again impressively, with Thanassis Antetokounbos giving energy on both sides of the parquet, making it 34-21 (+13) at 12 ′.
Somewhere there everything changed. After Bosnia’s timeout, Nurkic’s group came out of the parquet, as opposed to Spanoulis’ team who had a total blackout in the attack.
Greece stayed for almost 6 minutes (!) Without score, the Bosnians ran a series of 18-0 (!) And overturned the scene, taking the lead (34-39) for the first time. Kostas Sloukas returned to the parquet and tried to boost the National (37-39), but the half found the blue-white at -6 (38-44).
Robertson and Dorsey entered three -pointers in the 3rd period. But the former had taken … forums in defense and attack and it was the one who formed Bosnia’s +13. Olympiacos’ guard was the only one who had contact with the opposing basket, with Greece having a problem with options and rebounds.
National woke up defensively, with Thanassis Antetokounbos’ entry into the match, but the Greek forward reached 4 fouls after a while. Although the problem in defensive rebounds was not made, the blue-white tried to react to the finale of the 3rd quarter and reduced to 61-52.
The national image of the national team did not improve in the 4th period. He continued the racing mistakes, to … suffer in defensive rebounds and gave easy points to Bosnia. In the last three minutes, however, Greece has shown to have a “pulse”, gaining strength from its defense and reducing 69-74 with a basket of Sluka. Nurkic continued to hurt the blue -white through the “painter”.
Thanassis Antetokounbos’ 5th foul 1.31 before the end seemed to be the last “blow” to the blue-white, but he rejected, after Papanikolaou’s three-point lead and Slouka’s Drav (74-79). The incredible foul that the referees attributed to Papanikolaou in 26.6 seconds to end, in rebounds, finally cut off the “wings” of international.