We are in the front of the knockout gates Eurobasket 2025 and national basketball has ahead of its “obstacle” Israel (07.09.2025, 21:45, newsit.gr), on the… road to the medal zone and success!
National basketball will go with an ideal psychology in the clash with Israel, coming from the big victory over Spain. Ariel Beit-Halami’s team, however, is a “tied” set and has so far shown in the event that it can stand up to any opponent.
Israel finished in fourth place in the fourth group of Eurobasket 2025 held in Katowice, Poland, having three wins and two defeats. Ariel Beit-Halami’s whole was in the first place until the last race, but the defeat by Slovenia by the shocking Luca Doncic was the one that threw it in 4th place.
The leader of the team is Denny Avdiya, who makes excellent games and is the cornerstone of the attack. He is the only one in the event that along with Luca Doncic who has scored 20+ points in all five group phase games. Treil Blazers’ Point Forward leads his country to this Eurobasket and with 24.4 points per game is the 4th best scorer in the tournament.
Deni Avdija delivering another outing of the highest level #Eurobasket x @TherealIBBA pic.twitter.com/EjSk2c0D3j
– FIBA EuroBasket (@Eurobasket) September 2, 2025
Also, Avdiya also had 7.6 rebounds, a number that sends him in 12th place of the event, distributing 3 assists per game. With him, Roman Sorkin in the battles of the racket and Yam Madar in creation, gave Israel the dynamic image he had in parquet.
Avdiya’s statistics in the fourth group
Against Iceland (victory with 83-71): 20 points (5/7 two -pointers, 0/5 three -pointers, 10/12 shots), 9 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 errors, 3 blocks.
Against Poland (defeat by 64-66): 23 points (4/9 two -pointers, 3/10 three -pointers, 6/6 shots), 1 rebound, 3 errors, 1 steal.
Against France (victory with 82-69): 23 points (4/6 two -pointers, 3/4 three -pointers, 6/9 shots), 8 rebounds, 2 assists, 5 errors, 5 steals.
Against Belgium (92-89 victory): 22 points (6/8 two -pointers, 2/7 three -pointers, 4/6 shots), 5 rebounds, 2 assists, 2 errors.
Against Slovenia (defeat by 96-106): 34 points (8/11 two -pointers, 4/11 three -pointers, 6/10 shots), 9 rebounds, 2 assists, 4 errors, 2 steals.
Israel’s team consists of the following players:
Denny Avdiya (03/01/2001) PF (2.06m) Portland Trail Blazers
They were Burg (04/09/2002) SG (1.90m)
Tomer Guinat (07/11/1994) PF (2.03m) Hapoel Tel Aviv
Nimod Levi (24/03/1995) PF (2.08m) Hapoel Jerusalem
Yam Madar (21/12/2000) PG (1.90m) Hapoel Tel Aviv
Manko shelf (05/03/1994) SF (2.00m) Hapoel Jerusalem
Guy Palace (25/09/2000) SG (1.93m) Hapoel Tel Aviv
Itai Segev (15/06/1995) PF/C (2.05m) Hapoel Tel Aviv
Roman Sorkin (11/08/1996) C (2.08m) Maccabi Tel Aviv
Timor Bar (02/03/1992) g (1.91m) Hapoel Tel Aviv
Kandin Kartington (03/10/1995) g (1.93m) Hapoel Jerusalem
Jobel Zouman (12/05/1998) G/F (2.01m) Hapoel Jerusalem
The… good omen
National Greece has reached the ’16’ phase by exorcising … its evil demon, Spain, but at the moment there is another “omen” that shows that it can reach high!
In the last three times Greece was in the four -way Eurobasket (2005, 2007, 2009), he was called to somewhere in the tournament to face Israel.
In the 2007 and 2009 events, this was done in the group stage, and 20 years ago, in the process of gold 2005, our national team faced the Israelis in the first knockout, beating difficult (67-61) starring Nikos Zisi.
The Sunday (07.09.2025) match will be the 52nd of Greece with Israel at the men’s level, with the national team having the superiority with 29 wins over 22.
The last match of the two teams took place a few weeks ago (10.08.2025), in a friendly preparation in the Limassol Ecommbx Cup tournament.
Playing with several absences, Greece had suffered a heavy defeat by Israel (75-58). The top player in Vasilis Spanoulis’ team was Tyler Dorsey with 14 points and three assists, while Panagiotis Kalaitzakis (12 points), Nikos Hugaz (11 points) were also double.