Orlando winger Franz Wagner contributed most to the home team’s valuable win with 32 points and eight rebounds, Houston point guard Dennis Schröder added 25 points. New Orleans pivot Jonas Valanciunas shone with the Lithuanian shirt with 34 points and 14 rebounds.
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On the other hand, the reigning champions, the Slovenians, have surprisingly lost their invincibility in the same group. The team around NBA star Luka Dončič lost 93:97 to Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Dallas point guard scored 16 points, eight points and eight assists today, his team’s top scorer being Vlatko Cančar. John Roberston, American, led Bosnia to their second victory with 23 points.
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In Group A, world champion Spain suffered an unexpected first defeat, losing 73:83 to Belgium in their third match in Tbilisi. The bronze medalists of the last European Championship narrowly won the first half, but in the second half the opponent overtook them by 11 points and recorded the second victory of the tournament. The best scorer of the winners was Emmanuel Lecomte with 20 points, the Spaniard Willy Hernangomez scored two points less.
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Turkey, which could have reached the top of the group standings, also did not achieve their third victory in the third game. In a dramatic duel, however, they lost 83:88 to home side Georgia after the second overtime. According to the media, the nervous and excited atmosphere would have moved from the deck to the locker room area, where, according to the Turkish team, a physical confrontation would have occurred between the player Furkan Korkmaz and three Georgians. “If we do not receive the material from the security cameras, we will leave this tournament,” threatened the vice president of the Turkish association, Ömer Onan, according to the Eurohoops portal.
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| European basketball championship |
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| Group A (Tbilisi): |
| Montenegro – Bulgaria 91:81 (21:21, 45:46, 67:58) |
| Spain – Belgium 73:83 (11:15, 33:32, 54:57) |
| Turkey 83:88 Georgia after the 2nd extra period. (25:19, 33:36, 49:53, 68:68, 75:75) |
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| 1. | Spain | 3 | 2 | 1 | 277: 234 | 5 |
| 2. | Turkey | 3 | 2 | 1 | 256: 243 | 5 |
| 3. | Montenegro | 3 | 2 | 1 | 235: 223 | 5 |
| 4. | Belgium | 3 | 2 | 1 | 232: 225 | 5 |
| 5. | Georgia | 3 | 1 | 2 | 228: 252 | 4 |
| 6. | Bulgaria | 3 | 0 | 3 | 255: 306 | 3 |
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| Group B (Cologne): |
| Germany – Lithuania 109: 107 after the 2nd extra period. (19:19, 46:41, 66:65, 89:89, 96:96) |
| Slovenia – Bosnia and Herzegovina 93:97 (32:26, 52:49, 73:72) |
| France – Hungary 78:74 (21:17, 42:39, 67:53) |
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| 1. | Germany | 3 | 3 | 0 | 277: 252 | 6 |
| 2. | Slovenia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 288: 270 | 5 |
| 3. | Bosnia Herzegovina | 3 | 2 | 1 | 274: 270 | 5 |
| 4. | Francie | 3 | 2 | 1 | 218: 223 | 5 |
| 5. | Lithuania | 3 | 0 | 3 | 265: 278 | 3 |
| 6. | Hungary | 3 | 0 | 3 | 247: 276 | 3 |
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