Within the Latvian nationwide staff, Rūdolfs Švītiņš was the highest scorer with 17 factors, whereas Pēteris Pinni had ten factors and eight rebounds, Francis Neilands received 9 factors, and Jānis Jīnemanis had 9 rebounds and 4 factors.
Vilijami Vartiainen had 13 factors and 7 rebounds for the Finns.
Opponents scored way more factors from the penalty space (30:14), Latvians shoot from shut vary with low accuracy (28%).
Within the first match of Group A on Saturday, Latvia misplaced 70:88 towards their counterparts from Croatia, whereas Finland beat Switzerland 85:60.
Latvians may even meet Slovakian and Swiss basketball gamers within the group. The 2 finest groups within the quarter-finals will proceed the struggle for 3 tickets to the A bit.
The nationwide staff led by Ainaras Bagatskis performed seven take a look at matches within the preparatory section. First, the Latvians beat their counterparts from Georgia with 82:67, who then misplaced with 74:81, who suffered two defeats towards Lithuania (81:89 and 58:78), one after they gained and misplaced in video games with Ukraine (62: 66 and 72: 51) and beat Estonians 68:63 within the final take a look at recreation.
The B division of the European U-20 Championship will happen in Romania till July 21.
Latvia U-20 males’s nationwide basketball staff:
Crisdean Carlsons (“Valmiera Glass”/ViA), Edvards Egle, Rūdolfs Švītiņš (each – “College of Latvia”), Rihards Berkolds (“Rīgas Zeļi”), Francis Neilands (LU/”BS Riga”), Dāvis Ozers ( “Ventspils”), Ralf Tumaševs (BS “Ogre”), Ernests Lochmelis (East Florida School, NCAA), Kristaps Soldatenoks (“Liepāja”), Jānis Jīnemanis (“Gottingen”, Germany), Pēteris Pinnis (“VEF Riga”), Andrejs Silčonoks (Toronto Metropolitan College, Canada).
2024-07-14 19:26:41
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