Eliminated. The Spanish team returns home through the back door After falling defeated in this Thursday's decisive game against Greece (86-90), before which he only earned them victory after the triumph of Bosnia-Herzegovina over Georgia. Scariolo puts an end to his stage in the selection before taking the bench of Real Madrid, with the bitter taste of an elimination to the first exchange that leaves them out of the best 16 teams of the Eurobasket.
After his great game against Italy, the coach again bet on De Larrea in the initial quintet Together with Santi Yusta, Joel Parra, the Taronja Jaime Pradilla and Santi Aldama. A team that managed to maintain equality in the first minutes despite the fact that Greece began harming again and again from 6.75, with four triples without failure in his first in the hands of Dorsy, Sloukas, Papanikolaou and Katsivelis.
Before, Parra opened the scoring, Yusta added the first triple of Spain and Good minutes from Pradilla kept those of Scariolo in the gamewith a 13-13 last the first quarter. Of course, a new triple by Dorsy and a surprising 12-0 with prominence for Giannis Antetokounmpo put a disturbing 14-30 on the scoreboard.
Saint-Supéry, two free throws of Willy Hernangómez YuNa port of port almost on the horn allowed to reduce the difference to 20-31 After the first ten minutes.
López-Arostegui leads the reaction
Another of the Brothers Antetokounmpo, Kostas, reopened a small gap in the return to the track (20-35), but first Aldama, with five points in a row, and then the taronja l lOpez-Arostegui, with two triples and eight points, put Spain in the game (33-38)past the equator of the second quarter.
Those of Scariolo, however, braked again in the second section of the period, with Juancho scoring the last basket of Spain and Greece escaped again led by his great star, Giannis Antetokounmpo (35-50).
New 'comeback' with Pradilla and Larrea
Spain was against the ropes, with 20 minutes to play, but Pradilla did not lower his arms and led a new reaction, with a triple and five points in a row (With the assistance of Larrea). Aldama was still leaving free throws along the way but the success of Yusta and the inspiration of Sergio de Larrea put Spain 52-56 after a new Pradilla action to last ring.
Greece was shot, but the comeback did not just completed Before a rival who found again in the hands of Dorsy and 'Anteto' the tranquility at the most delicate time for them (54-66). Even so, those of Scariolo did not lower their arms and a new triple of López-Arostegui (his third) allowed to start another reaction, which led to the end of the fourth 63-68 after a last basket of Saint-Supéry on the horn.
Latest Infarction Fourth
Sloukas, at 11 seconds of the last period, opened the score to put the +7 for Greece, but a triple of Juancho and a Willy basket under the hoop put the 68-70. The comeback was getting closer and A great Saint-Supéry put the tie after a triple (71-71) With more than eight minutes to play.
'Anteto' let out a free kick and again Willy scored to put Spain ahead (73-72). A moral injection for the final stretch of the party, although Greece soon took command again.
With 77-81 and after a dead time of Scariolo, A huge Pradilla scored three to relaunch again to Spainwhich was put ahead after two new aldama free throws.
LThe nerves arrived in Greece and in that situation, the ball came again and again to 'Anteto'who constantly sought individual action, while Greece raised defensive intensity, with more than one foul that the referees forgave them.
Two losses followed by Spain and a Sloukas basket that put the 84-88 forced Scariolo to stop the game. Spain managed to force a triple and take three free throws, but Juancho erred all three and the game ended up spoiling despite the fact that Aldama returned to the free throw line after capturing the rebound. The first failed again and the game ended up escaping after López-Arostegui scored one more free kick to put the final 86-90. Greece passes as the first group, with Giannis Antetokounmpo touching the triple double with 25 points, 14 rebounds and 9 assists, while Darius Thompson's Italy as second, but Spain returns home despite the face until the end.
– Technical file:
86 – España (20+15+28+23): De Larrea (6), Yusta (9), Parra (7), Aldama (12), Pradilla (14) -Cinco initial-, Saint-Supéry (13), Brizuela (-), Puerto (2), Willy Hernangómez (6), Juancho Hernangómez (5), López-Arostegui (12), Sima (-).
90 – Greece (31+19+18+22): Sloukas (12), Dorsey (22), Katsivelis (3), Papanikolau (11), Giannis Antetokounmpo (25) -Cinco Inicial-; Mitoglou (2), Toliopoulos (4), Thanasis Antetokounmpo (1), Kostas Antetokounmpo (6), Kalaitzakis (4), Larentzakis (-).
Referees: Jorge Vázquez (Puerto Rico), Martins Kozlovskis (Latvia) and Peter Praksch (Hungary). They excluded for five personal offenses to Toliopoulos (m.39).
Incidents: Party corresponding to Group C of the Eurobasket 2025 played at the Kyprianou Sand Sand of Limasol (Cyprus)
