Eurobasket - Round-up: Greece set up Spain semi

Eurosport - Fri, 18 Sep 21:54:00 2009

Greece set up a EuroBasket semi-final with world champions Spain after a dramatic 76-74 overtime victory over Turkey in Katowice.

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Jonas Kazlauskas's team looked to be through in regulation until a lay-up by Turkey's Ender Arslan in the dying seconds forced added time.

Arsian then had a chance to win it but missed a three-pointer with the last throw of the game.

Greece's win also secures them a place at next year's World Championship, which Turkey will host.

"We never stopped believing that we could win this game," said Vasileios Spanoulis, who banked 23 points and drained six three-pointers.

"This is a new team, with a new coach, new players and new ideas but we still made it to the top four at the EuroBasket and that's a big thing for us."

Slovenia will play Serbia in the other semi-final following their 67-65 quarter-final win over Croatia.

In-form Erazem Lorbek, who played all but 40 seconds of the match, top-scored with 27 points and eight rebounds.

Croatia will need to pick themselves up for Saturday's play-off with reigning champions Russia, with the winner booking their place at next year's Worlds.

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  1. the greek team is very good but they do not have the­ experience since some players are gone like Diamandis­ Papaloukas and others who are playing in top Europe­ teams but with the adding of Koufos and Kalathes they­ can make the difference

    From tpagalis, on Sat 19 Sep 5:16PM

  2. LOOOOOOOOOL. Nice joke. Greece is just ont the best­ teams in the world.

    From Ioannis, on Sat 19 Sep 3:54PM

  3. Greece win with thanks to the referee. He created a 4­ second attack chance for Greece after 24 seconds were­ already completed, which resulted with an undeserved 3­ pointer. The final score margin was only 2.

    From Erol YALI, on Sat 19 Sep 12:08PM
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