2024-07-28 10:26:40
The Canadians ended the match without three NBA players who received five fouls: Oklahoma City Thunder’s Luguentz Dort, Dallas Mavericks’ Dwight Powell and Houston Rockets’ Dillon Brooks.
This match started with an impressive Canadian spurt: the team scored without difficulty, fought powerfully under the baskets, defended well and in 6 minutes. even led 19:7 and 22:9.
However, after that, the Greeks started to hit and they managed to trail only 22:26 after the first half. Although the Greeks tried to catch up with the North Americans, they were unable to do so and rested with Gianni Antetokounmpo’s army trailing 38-48.
In the third quarter, Canada had a 14-point lead, but the difference narrowed to 60-66 in the last minute of the quarter.
Before the decisive quarter, the Canadians led 68-60.
7 minutes left to fight. the Greeks started breathing in the back – 68:72. But Canada hit two straight 3-pointers to pull away again.
With less than 2 minutes left in the contest, Greece tried to chase and fell behind 74-80 and 76-80 in the final minute. However, the Canadians held on and won the duel.
Greece: Giannis Antetokounmpo 34 (11/16 doubles), Kostas Papanikolaou 17 (3/6 triples), Vasilis Toliopoulos 9 (1/5 triples).
Canada: RJBarrett 23 (7/9 2-pointers), Shai Gilgeous-Alexander 21 (5 rpg, 7 rpg), Dillon Brooks 14 (5 rpg, 3/4 trg), Luguentz Dort (4 rpg) and Jamal Murray (0/3 tr) each had 8.
In the first duel of this group, Australia managed to cope with Spain 92:80.
2024-07-28 10:26:40