Turkey thrashes a Greek team that did it all wrong

Greece missed retired connected the Eurobasket last losing painfully to Turkey successful Friday’s semifinal with a 94-68 people successful Latvia, and will person to regroup to combat it retired with Finland for the bronze medal.

Turkey appeared acold amended prepared for the semifinal and led from start to decorativeness with an emphatic show that included the drastic containment of Greece’s superstar, Giannis Antetokounmpo.

The Greeks appeared similar a team without absorption and self-confidence, committing 1 turnover aft different and missing adjacent escaped shots, while their defence suffered from the slow instrumentality of players from offense.

Turkey led 7-0 and kept expanding its region arsenic the crippled went on. Its coach, Ergin Ataman, had the reply to each trick of the Greek team, becoming the archetypal manager successful the tournament to trap the “Greek Freak,” scorer of conscionable 12 points connected the night, against a tournament mean of 30 points.

The archetypal fractional finished 49-31 and the third play brought Turkey’s pb up to 26 points (64-38), earlier closing 72-51.

Kostas Sloukas appeared to beryllium warring connected his ain astatine times, finishing the crippled with 15 points.

The last play conscionable maintained the aforesaid representation without the Greeks being capable to chopped the region and endanger the Turks, who added insult to wounded with a 26-point result, successful what was their archetypal victory implicit Greece successful fractional a century.

Greece still has a accidental for a medal, but indispensable flooded the spectacularly improved Finland successful the bronze-medal match. Turkey will contention the Eurobasket last with Germany.