Euskaraz irakurri: Espainiak Grezia garaitu du eta bizirik jarraitzen du Parisko Olinpiar Jokoetan (84-77)

The Spanish selection male of the Basques Dario Brizuela and Xavier Lopez-Arostegui has defeated this Tuesday Greece by 84-77in their second match at the Paris 2024 Games. Sergio Scariolo’s team needed to win to continue their chances in the tournament after losing in their debut against Australia.

Santi Aldamawith 19 points and 12 rebounds, has been the most outstanding player of the match, in a game in which the Scariolo They had a 16-point lead thanks to their excellent shooting from outside (15/29) and a strong defence. In the end, they had to suffer to get their first victory of the championship.

The match started with dominance by the Greek team led by Giannis Antetokounmpowhich has ended with 27 pointsand that has done a lot of damage in the area. The departure from the bench of Sergio Llull has allowed the Spaniards to reduce the gap to one point, after the first 10 minutes (21-22).

The Balearic player’s inspiration continued after the first quarter, with another triple that put Spain ahead on the scoreboard for the first time in the match. At that moment Jaime Pradilla He entered the track, which was his debut at the Games, and with him in play the partial for the Spaniards was 25-10.

The defensive improvement has been added to the outside success with 11 triples in the first half, one of them from the San Sebastian player Dario Brizuela. Thus, Spain went into the break with a 14-point lead (49-35).

After the break, the Greeks have increased their defensive intensity and have held on Antetokoumpoto reduce the distance on the scoreboard. Six points from the star of the NBAand the triples of Walkup and Papanicolaou They have brought the Greeks within ten points. At the end of the third quarter the score was 62-56.

The gap has narrowed even further at the end of the last quarter and the Greeks have come to be within a single point. The reaction of the Scariolo has arrived from the hand of Aldamawith two baskets, and with eight consecutive points from the team. In the final stages Antetokoumpo He had a three-pointer to tie the game, but the ball did not go in and he took the rebound. Willy Hernangómezwho scored two points to seal the victory from the free throw line, with a final score of 84-77.

Spain The classification will be played at the quarter finals on the last day of this phase against Canadahe Friday 2nd of August.

– Data sheet:

84; Spain (21+28+13+22): Brown (7), Abrines (8), Lopez-Arostegui (-), Aldama (19) and Willy Hernangómez (11) –starting five–; Llull (13), Juancho Hernangómez (3), Brizuela (3), Diaz (3), Garuba (-) and Rudy Fernandez (10) and Pradilla (7).

77; Greece (22+13+21+21): Calathes (8), Walkup (5), Papanikolau (9), Antetokoumpo (27) and Papagiannis (5) –starting quintet–, Mitoglou (4), Toliopoulos (14) , Larentzakis (5), Kalaitzakis (-) and Charalampopoulos (-).

Referees: Zurapovic, Kozlovskis and Anaya.

Source: Eitb

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