Her qualifying in the quarter -finals of Eurobasket celebrated National Greece. Vasilis Spanoulis’ team also overcame Israel’s obstacle, dominating 84-79 for the “16” phase and got the ticket to the eight of the event, where it will meet Lithuania.
National Greece continued its course to the medal zone at Eurobasket. With an absolute leader Giannis Antetokounbosthe blue -white overcame the barrier of the Israeli fighter and qualified for the quarter -finals of the competition, where it will face it Lithuania.
The clash Greece – Lithuania is scheduled for the Tuesday night (9/9/2025), with the winner qualifying for the semifinals, where he will meet the winner of the Turkey – Poland.
THE Giannis Antetokounbos He gave another performance with the National Greece jersey, leveling Israel. Greek superstar was enjoyable with 37 points and 10 reboundswhile he was followed in performance Kostas Sloukas with 11 points.
Pleasant surprise was the Alexander Samondurov. The young Greek tall of Panathinaikos was catalytic in the victory of the blue whites with 7 points and 6 decisive reboundswhile he had 2 steals.
In terms of losers, the one stood out Abdija with 23 points.
Note that National Greece managed to beat Israel, having 4/25 three -pointers!
The match
Sloukas and Yiannis Antetokounbos gave the tone in the first minutes to lead to 12-6 (3 ‘) and Papanikolaou to follow from 6m75 for 14-8 (5’). Israel’s strong game in defense made his appearance from the beginning, but where he “shone” was John, who had 21 points with 10/10 two-pointers in half of the second period, writing 41-34. Mitoglou, Costas Antetokounbos, Dorsey and Sloukas made their own relay to the scoring as +11 (50-39, 18 ‘) with the difference being a two-digit price for the first time.
John maintained the distance (52-41, 20’35 ”), to follow a 7-0 and Carrington to write 52-48 (22’15 ”). The game “closed”, Avdiya wrote 54-51 (22’38 ”) and Sorkin 60-57 (26’16 ”) with Antetokounbos charged with a third foul. An indirect three-pointer by Sloukas and a three-pointer from Samonduror helped take a breath that the Greek team needed (66-58, 27’40 ”).
Samondurov’s entry into the game offered a lot of defense and attack with Yiannis Antetokounbos leading to 73-59 (32’40 “with another impressive nail, while in an impressive way” Samos “wrote 75-62 (34΄25), but 75-70, 37-70).
Papanikolaou gave a solution for 80-70 (38 ′), the answer was a 4-0 with John winning the year for 82-74 with 46 “for the end. Greece had the first reason and won 84-79 for a place at the best teams in the competition.
The ten minutes: 28-22, 50-41, 67-59, 84-79.
GREECE (Spanoulis): Dorsey 4 (2/8 shots), Larentzakis, Toliopoulos 5 (2/2 two -pointers, 0/3 three -pointers, 1/2 shots), Sloukas 11 (3/6 two -pointers, 1/5 three -pointers, 2/3 shots, 4 rebounds, 2 assists) three -pointers, 4 rebounds, 4 assists), Samondourov 7 (1 three -pointers, 6 rebounds, 2 steals), G. Antetokounbos 37 (18/21 two -pointers, 1/2 shots, 10 rebounds), K. Antetokounbos 4 (5 rebounds) rebound).
ISRAEL (Bait-Alachmi): Karrington 9 (3/3 three-pointers), Schekef, Avdiya 23 (1/3 two-pointers, 4/8 three-pointers, 9/12 shots), Sorkin 14 (3/5 two-pointers, 2/4 three-pointers, 2/3 shots, 6 rebounds), 4/4 shots, 4 rebounds, 5 assists, 5 steals), Levi 2, Guinat 15 (5/8 two -pointers, 1/1 three -pointers, 2/4 shots, 5 rebounds), Zouman 4, Palatin.
Greek group statistics: 33/50 two -pointers, 4/25 three -pointers, 6/12 shots, 44 rebounds (26 defenses – 18 offensive), 14 assists, 11 steals, 2 blocks, 16 errors, 21 fouls.
Israel’s group statistics: 16/34 two -pointers, 10/25 three -pointers, 17/23 shots, 31 rebounds (23 defenses – 8 offensive), 18 assists, 8 steals, 4 blocks, 16 errors, 18 fouls.