The hurdle was low. The National team played idle, defeated Egypt 93-71, went 2-for-2 in the Piraeus Pre-Olympic Tournament and goes into a titanic battle with Slovenia on Saturday (17:30) for a place in the final that will decide the ticket for the Olympic Games.
Vassilis Spanoulis rested Giannis Antetokounmpo who returned following two and a half months of inactivity due to his calf injury, but saw Kostas Antetokounmpo leave with a problem in his left knee. And that was the bad news of the matchup, on the way to meeting Luka Doncic and Josh Niebo.
Giorgos Papagiannis had no rival, Nick Kalathis raged in the creation part, Larentzakis and Papanikolaou followed and Greece did the job without too much trouble as the difficult things are ahead of them.
Referees: Mazzoni-Garcia-Becker. The 10 minutes: 20-12, 42-38 (d.), 68-52, 93-71.
GREECE (Spanoulis): Walkap 4 (7 assists), Larentzakis 12 (4), Moraitis 2, Toliopoulos 3 (1), Kalathis 5 (1tr., 5 rebounds, 9 assists, Kalaitzakis 5, Papagiannis 16, Charalampopoulos 13 (3) , Papanikolaou 15, K. Antetokounmpo 2, Mitoglou 16 (2tr., 5rb.).
EGYPT (Rodl): Metwally 22 (2), Shehata 3 (1), Gedi 8 (1), Khalifa, Refat 2, Mahmoud 4, Elghizaoui, Gardner 6, El-Sheikh 7, Abdelgawad 9, Hussein 2, Orabi 8.
The team statistics:
GREECE: 1/2 free throws, 28/40 2-pointers, 12/27 3-pointers, 31 rebounds (23 defensive – 8 offensive), 34 assists, 9 steals, 2 blocks, 12 turnovers, 22 fouls.
EGYPT: 15/20 free throws, 22/34 2-pointers, 4/21 3-pointers, 26 rebounds (20 defensive – 6 offensive), 13 assists, 7 steals, 2 blocks, 16 turnovers, 8 fouls.
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