Eurobasket 2025, Greece-Finland 92-89: Ethnikara, the team of all over Greece, took the bronze medal at Eurobasket 2025
There were many sixteen years. And the longing for this year's team to break the curse, it turned out to be a momentum that Finland could not stop.
Greece won 92-89 in its small final Eurobasket 2025 And he took the bronze medal in an event that started in Limassol and completed in Riga.
With Giannis Antetokounbos filling his statistics again and putting the shots for the end result when the iron was bent, with Tyler Dorsey scoring from the periphery, with Dinos Mitoglou giving a huge impetus to the end of Tuesday and at the end of Tuesday. The duration of the match and while in the end he was pressured unbearably, he found a way to get the result.
Kostas Papanikolaou did indescribable work in defense, mainly in the “very” Lauri Marcanen, Costas Sloukas in the last game of his career with the national team was perfectly guided and at the end of the night Vasilis Spanoulis was the most proud of the world.
Finland, for its part, saw Marcanen find iron again and again, so everything became more difficult for those around him, until the finale that became thriller for strong nerves. Again, however, fourth place is a great success for Lassi Tuovi's team, which has a youth, has the 21 -year -old Little in ace and 18 -year -old Kurinen at four to look for the medal in subsequent events.
The match
With Katsiveli, Slouka, Dorsey, Papanikolaou, Yiannis, Spanoulis opened the match, who sent the “Pope” to Marcanen and saw Antetokounbos have assists on Dorsey's three-point 3-0 in the third minute. National is dynamic and hard, Dorsey did things and miracles in the periphery and while the opportunities were wasting (inappropriate Lay-AP Katsiveli, inappropriate Kalaitzakis shots), 20-11 at 8 ′ was pleasant.
Greece opened the second quarter to +9 (24-15), but the entrance of Murinen changed the whole game. The 18-year-old made amazing nails, fouls and unprofessional, before Erkamoa reduced to 27-26, but Ethniki responded with a 9-0 series and with Kostas-Yiannis Antetokounbos doing epic work in defense and attack respectively, the team went 45-11.
At the beginning of the second half the National had the same momentum. He kept Finland at the same distance, with Toliopoulos putting a huge shot for the 59-49 that cut our opponents at 27 ′. Another such thing was put on 69-56 in the third ends of the third period, at a point where John felt invincible, but had bleeded in his hand and had to go to the bench for first aid.
The fourth opened with the Finns ready for the last attempt, with Mitoglou's three-point lead for 73-59, with Toliopoulos' three-point lead for 76-63, with John's basket for +15 and Dorsey's tripod for 81-64 at 4:31 before the final. And while everything was in our side, Finland responded with 5-18 to reduce to four with Erkamas' three-pointer to 54.9 ″.
Yiannis responded with a goal for 89-83 at 50.4 ″, Marcanen responded with a three-pointer for 89-86, the national wasted possession trying to eat time and at 20.3 ″ Little shots for 89-87. It was followed by 1/2 by Sloukas for 90-87, before Papanikolaou was charged with a foul on Valtnoneen at 5.7 ″. The Finn had 2/3, failed on Tuesday, Yadounen missed in the face and John got the rebound and shots at 4 ″. And he put them.
The referees: Vasks, Conte, Anya
The ten minutes: 24-15, 48-34, 69-56, 92-89
Source: Sport24.gr
