Eurobasket-2017: Spain, Greece and Latvia made it to the quarterfinals

Determined eight candidates for the status of the strongest basketball team in the continent.

Defending Champions Spain have conceded just 56 points in the match with Turkey. The best scorer of the team was point guard, “Utah” Ricky Rubio (15 points).

The French team, despite a strong start, sensationally lost to Germany for the first time since 2009 left the tournament without prizes. Executioner of the French became a newly formed forward of “Boston” Daniel theis (22+7 rebounds).

Unexpectedly went home early and Lithuania – a team of Dainius Adomaitis has not coped with viscous protection of the Greeks. The most productive of the Greeks was Kostas Sloukas (21+5 rebounds).

Bright team Latvia in 1/8 finals rink drove through Montenegro. The Duo Timm-Porzingis scored 40 points, and the Latvians carried out 15 shots in just 25 attempts.

Results of matches of 1/8 finals:

Spain – Turkey 73:56 (19:10, 14:15, 16:18, 24:13)
Serbia — Hungary 86:78 (24:16, 24:25, 21:12, 17:25)
Latvia — Montenegro 100:68 (27:15, 26:22, 24:13, 18:16)
Finland — Italy 57:70 (17:30, 12:18, 13:10, 15:12)
Germany – France 84:81 (10:19, 24:21, 21:16, 29:25)
Lithuania – Greece– 64:77 (17:25, 13:12, 18:24, 16:16)
Ukraine – Slovenia 55:79 (17:26, 10:16, 16:26, 12:11)
Croatia – Russia 78:101 (23:25, 19:21, 15:26, 21:29)

Pair of 1/4 finals of Eurobasket 2017:

Germany – Spain
Slovenia – Latvia
Greece – Russia
Italy – Serbia.

The quarterfinal matches of the European championship on basketball will take place in Istanbul on September 12-13.

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