Australia – Greece for the third matchday of the A’ Group in the Olympic Basketball Tournament. The national team has two defeats in the “points” against Canada and Spain and only wants the victory against Brian Gurian’s strong team, either to hope for qualification as the best third, or – in the best scenario of all – for them to qualify as second in the quarterfinals.
The jumbo ball of the match is set for the 14:30televised by ERT1.
Australia – Greece: The qualification scenarios
It goes without saying that a win over the Aussies is needed to keep any hope of a quarter-final ticket alive. Afterward:
- With a win over Australia and a Spain win over Canada: The blue and white finish third and will wait to see if it will be one of the two best thirds in the groups.
- With a win over Australia to 2 points and a loss for Spain against Canada: Greece are out as fourth in the three-way tie on aggregate points difference.
- With a win over Australia (3-9 points) and a loss against Spain: Greece will take third place in the three-way tie and will wait for the remaining matches.
- With a win over Australia (10+ points) and a win over Canada: Greece finishes second in a three-way tie and advances directly as 2nd to the quarterfinals.
The standings of Group A
“Overcoming is needed”
Vassilis Spanoulis was clear at the press conference about today’s match.
“I have tremendous confidence in the kids. While in the first game we played brilliantly in the second half, we lost by one possession. Although in the second match we did not play well after the first 8 minutes against Spain, we again lost by one possession. For us the first medal is that we came to the Olympic Games. Let’s not forget this. Greece being in the Olympics after 16 years is a great success. Some overlook it. Some people find it easy. Maybe some people thought it was easy to beat Slovenia and Croatia. It’s not easy”he stated among other things.
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