Giannis Antetokounmpo is surging toward the Olympics oddly after he scored 23 fixations and Greece held off Croatia 80-69 on Sunday. The game was one of the four men’s b-ball qualifying challenge finals to finish up the overflow spots in the 12-pack field for the Paris Games.
“The best competitors on earth fight in the Olympic Games,” Antetokounmpo said. “We should risk everything … I truly recognize we have a mind-boggling social occasion and can achieve something surprisingly exceptional.”
Georgios Papagiannis scored 19 focuses for Greece, who likewise got 14 Without any planning Calathes and acquired an Olympic billet peculiarly beginning around 2008.
“It’s extremely ideal to qualify considering how that is the basic step,” Papagiannis said. “At the Olympics, we need to accomplish something mind-boggling there.”
Greece will be in Party A for the Paris Games, with opening-stage games against Australia, Canada, and Spain – who correspondingly qualified on Sunday by beating the
The reigning champs USA, as well as France, Germany, Japan, Serbia, South Sudan, Canada, and Australia, had proactively qualified. France qualified as the host country; the other seven social occasions on the outline qualified thinking about their achievements at the World Cup the previous summer.
After the World Cup, 24 social affairs were left to seek the last four spaces. They were picked as the champ to bring back all the significant qualifiers that began seven days earlier. Brazil snatched the first of those spots on Sunday before Greece and Spain followed. The last spot in the 12-bundle Olympic field will be picked later Sunday when Lithuania visits Puerto Rico.
On Saturday, Antetokounmpo faced one ceaseless NBA A-list player, Luka Dončić, in the semi-finals. Antetokounmpo and Greece beat Dončić’s Slovenia 96-68.
“They played way better and stood out from us. They were irrefutable all the more remarkable,” Dončić said. “I think they have a stunning social occasion. They have Giannis. In any case, different pieces are fundamental for them, too. Besides, they’re for the most part around ready … They squashed us today.”