The United of the Greatest Players Who Ever Played Basketball,… an Alien Lukas Doncic broke the counters and led Slovenia to a big 88-82 victory over France, which (logically) puts host Germany in the way of our team in the quarter-finals, if of course both overcome the obstacles they will face in the 16 knockout games ( Germany will play with Montenegro).

In order for the Slovenes to have this major victory, Doncic needed to score more than half of his team’s points. With Oscar stats (11/12 field goals, 9/12 2-pointers and 6/11 3-pointers in 38:44), he himself scored 47 points when his teammates combined to score another… 41. With that with his performance, he eclipsed his personal best Giannis Antetokounmpo (41 points the day before), surpassed Nowitzki (43) – Gali (46) and now holds 2nd place in EuroBasket history, losing 63 points to Belgian Eddy Teras in 1957.

Dimitris Itoudis had every reason to be interested in this game much more than today’s (18:00) ours with Estonia (the game of Kostas Antetokounbo is expected), which does not judge anything by points. Our opponent in phase “16” will come out tonight from the 4th group, where only the first place of Serbia is given. Our team will meet with the team from Poland, Finland, Czech Republic, Israel, which will take the 4th place, and this will depend on the results of today’s matches Finland – the Netherlands, the Czech Republic – Israel and Serbia – Poland.

The hardest part will begin in the quarter-final phase, where the victory of the Slovenians logically brings the hosts Germany, who finished 2nd in Group B and were waiting to play in the 1/8 finals with the “official favorites”. Belgium or Montenegro. In addition to the difficulty that crosses with the hosts always create in knockout games, the “bonus” for our team is that if they qualify, they will only face Slovenia or Serbia in the final.

• In addition to Germany – Montenegro, Spain – Lithuania, Turkey – France and Slovenia – Belgium will meet in the 1/8 finals.