We mightn’t have dreamed of a better day. In a white-hot Cologne arena by the best audience in Europe, sorry for the Portel fans, Lithuania and Slovenia gave us a pretty crazy show from the start of the Euro. A victory for Slovenia but a victory that seemed to elude them for a long time, until a money time strangely missed by the Baltics and managed more seriously by Luka Doncic and Mike Tobey. Go shoo, recap, and we go for the Blues!
The statistics of this magnificent tapas platter is right here
If you wanted basketball? Madame is served as the other would say. Magnificent confrontation therefore, between two teams which it would not be surprising to find them very far in the competition in two weeks. But let’s start at the beginning and this shock of the first day, a shock launched ideally by the Slovenians who seem to be unaware that the 3-point shot is not a must in basketball. Good for them finally, since Luka Doncic opens the ball, since Vlatko Cancar continues and since Jaka Blazic pays his 2/2 entry. It falls everywhere but opposite Lithuania responds, through Kuzminskas and Grigonis, and thanks to the power of their duo of lumberjacks below. Jonas Valanciunas and Domantas Sabonis shave with swords but they also have hands of jewelers when they want, Mike Tobey does what it takes (in attack) to answer them and Goran Dragic marks his entrance with some dragon spitting which he has the secret, and in the end it gives a match that is both committed but also untied, everything you like when you have just stuffed yourself with the matches of Bulgaria or Hungary.
“LIETUVA” falls in the room, audience in turmoil. pic.twitter.com/vg1BsKtr9z
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51-48 at half-time, no one really stands out except a Lithuanian public as dressed as they are boiling, no one stands out because… everyone is good, very good, quite simply. The Lithuanians fish for lost balls immediately sanctioned by points on the counter-attack, the Slovenians are chewed up under the circle and therefore manage their match-up as well as possible, so that at the start of the fourth quarter it is indeed the Lietuva Lietuva who fall by the thousands from the Koln Arena when Lithuania take the lead. At that moment we say to ourselves that the match is turning, at that moment Luka Doncic begins to take chunks in the face by the dozen, but, strangely, what made the strength of the Litu for 35 minutes disappears like Chris Paul in the Playoffs. Domantas Sabonis intercepts Doncic’s nasal septum and takes an unsportsmanlike, the big ones are no longer served, unlike a Mike Tobey who will end his game with 24 pawns, including regarding 60 offered by his brilliant leader, in double-double at the final with 14 points, clumsiness, a defense to be ignored and 10 assists. The momentum has changed hands in the money time, some will say it’s a boss match management and others are still wondering regarding the Lithuanian strokebut whatever happens the Slovenians end up winning and our famous Luka Doncic now has a 10-0 record with his selection for the Euro.
A splendid match but a somewhat smeared end to the match for Lithuania, while the Slovenians started their Euro in the best possible way, victorious having played THEIR game, enough today, hoping it lasts but not once morest our Blues , because we remember that the French team has the immense chance (not at all) to be in the same group as these two crazy teams.
Our Blues who play elsewhere in exactly, I look at my watch, 32 minutes, so it’s time to click on publish and spin pasta with pesto. Thank you Mindaugas, thank you Goran, thank you Luka and thank you life, this EuroBasket 2022 is perfectly launched.
