Lithuania as underdogs beats Latvia, leading whole game. Without injured Jokubaitis I though that our chances is little, but Arnas Velicka replaced him very well. He was such beast tonight, didn't knew that he is capable to play so great. 34 points and 19 rebounds from Porzingis wasn't enough
At halftime Serbia is leading Finland 48:44, very entertaining game so far.
The reason Turkey struggled against Sweden is because of FIBA’s ridiculous decisions.
Who schedules a game in the morning? If they keep doing such nonsense, of course teams will struggle. Having a game at 12 p.m. Turkey time is just absurd.
Normally, we could have had a much more comfortable win against Sweden, but because of FIBA’s nonsense, we struggled.
We are one of the biggest favorites for EUROBASKET 2025.
It happens when tou play all remaining playoff games in one arena and want to have 4 games in one day. Probably tomorrow Poland and Bosnia won't be very happy too to play so early. When I watched the game, I thought that Turkey is struggling so much because of early start - players looked a bit sleepy.
Portugal scored 7 points in the opening minutes and then failed to score for 5:30.
I've seen this in many matches: If your opponent is strong, you play with the same motivation, but if your opponent is weak, you're weak too. Portugal didn't score, but Germany was no different. Especially in the first two periods.
Portugal led 32-31 at halftime, but I was so confident Portugal would lose that Portugal completely fell apart in the final period. Germany poured in points, but Portugal seemed to be shooting stones at the basket, not balls. Portugal scored 7 points in the final period and lost by a landslide. The weaker teams are eliminated one by one in this round. Tomorrow's toughest matches will be Italy vs. Slovenia and Israel vs. Greece, both of which are tied.
Portugal didn't deserved to lose by 27 points - this result doesn't reflects the game. They gave very good fight, but dominating 4th quarter left no questions. 7 3 pointers in one quarter is very solid.