OR Young Men’s National He gave them all against France for his quarter -finals Eurobasket U20 in Heraklion, Crete, but she did everything wrong in the last seconds, losing the qualification through her hands.
Greece paid for its unlikely failure in the shots (12/26) and unfortunately failed to find itself in the medal zone as it lost the battle in rebounds by the French.
The Young Men’s National will compete for the 5-8 positions against the loser of the Lithuania-Slovenian couple.
Fatal for blue whites was the best player in the team, Neocles Avdala. The talented guard lost the ball shortly before the final for France’s 70-72, and also failed on the three-point victory.
The match
Our representative band was from 1-5 (2 ‘) at 7-6 (4’), but at the same time watching Stefanos Spartalis charged very early in the game with two fouls. Kapetakis wrote 11-8 (6’20 ”) and Samondourov 15-10 (6’50 ”) with a ‘foul goal’, with Rozakis taking advantage of Touliatos ‘pass for 18-13 (8’).
The French Etang was the one who undertook to freeze the platform with a long shot that led to 18-22 (9 ‘) and 20-25 (9’50’ ‘). The “tricolors” closed the first quarter with 5/12 three -pointers, but the offensive rebounds were the ones that gave them the great advantage in the second period.
Rozakis and Samondourob was 28-27 (13’15 ”), before Avdalas was charged with a second foul, but the French were there again (31-35), reaching three minutes before the first twenty-minute completion of 10 offensive rebounds. Two three-pointers from Liotopoulos and Toulato again brought Greece to the driver’s seat (37-35, 17’30 ”), but going to the locker room France was the one with a small lead (39-41).
France managed to keep the lead firmly in the third period, reaching +5 (42-47, 23 ′), with Liotopoulos giving the “present” for 51-52 (29 ′). Paraskevopoulos and Samondourov gave the lead in Greece (56-55, 31’25 ”), but only temporarily, since Maistorovic and Etang were there for 57-60 (32’20”).
Liotopoulos returned for 61-62 (34’50 “with the Greek team counting from line 11/22! And Avdalas took the bat to give the lead again (63-62, 35’10”) and again (65-64, 36 ′). He himself made 68-67 (38’20 ”).
The Trikolor twice renewed their attack to 15 “to write 70-70, Spartalis took the rebound, but Malaya stole the ball and wrote 70-72 with 8” 8 in the watch which was the final score of the match, after Avdalas.
Referees: Zyyrapovic (Bosnia Herzegovina), Tomasovic (Slovakia), Gankovski (Poland).
10 minutes: 20-24, 39-41, 51-52, 70-72.
Greece (Papadopoulos): Greece (Papadopoulos): Kapetakis 5, Touliatos 4 (1), Paraskevopoulos 2, Soulis 2, Rozakis 8, Avdalas 17 (1), Spartalis 4, Samondourov 12 (1), Liotopoulos 14 (1), Patrikis 2.