The national team of Ukraine on basketball suffered their second defeat in the European championship.
As in the opening match against Germany, the players of Yevgeny Murzin had exactly one quarter. For the second 10-minute period, Italy went into the lead, and after a long break without problems have reduced the quality advantage.
Once again the best team in Ukraine was Artem Pustovoy – center “Obradoiro” someone else’s ring refused to see any guardianship, converting 7 of 8 shots from the game. Alas, Pustovaya no support.
The executioner of the Ukrainian team was the NBA champion in the “San Antonio” Marco Belinelli – the Italian sharpshooter experienced implemented 6 of the 12 three-pointers. All in all, Ukrainian basket flew 17 “three”, which became a key factor in the basketball confident victory was Gained.
In the third round of group stage of Eurobasket-2017 Ukraine national team will play against Georgia. In case of defeat “blue-yellow” prematurely stop fighting for a spot in the playoffs.
Ukraine – Italy 66:78 (19:16, 14:27, 15:16,18:19)
Ukraine: Pustovoy (21)Kravtsov (11 + 3 rebounds), Lukashov (9 + 6 assists).
Italy: Belinelli (26), Ardore (13 + 3 rebounds + 3 assists), Datome (12).
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