US EditionGeorgia Stuns Defending Champion Spain 83-69 at EuroBasket
Sandro Mamukelashvili scored 19 points and helped Georgia outrebound Spain 46-29, securing a decisive 11-2 run in the fourth quarter for the upset win.
- On Thursday in Limassol, Toronto Raptors forward Sandro Mamukelashvili scored 19 points to lead the Georgia national team to an 83-69 upset over defending champion Spain at EuroBasket.
- Trailing 61-58 in the fourth quarter, Georgia national team launched an 11-2 run to seize the decisive lead against Spain national team.
- Mamukelashvili also contributed seven rebounds and six assists as the Georgia national team outrebounded the Spain national team 46-29, while Kamar Baldwin, American-born guard, scored 12 points including a 3-pointer in the final seconds.
- After the loss, Spain's poor performance included making only 6 of 13 free throws, highlighting their struggles at EuroBasket Thursday.
- At Spyros Kyprianou Arena in Limassol, Cyprus, the Georgia national team competed in a key EuroBasket Group C game, marking an important group stage contest.
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Georgia stuns defending champion Spain 83-69 at EuroBasket
Sandro Mamukelasvili also spoke about Giannis Antetokounmpo and described him as a beast.
Defending champion Spain surprisingly lost to Georgia 69:83 (17:20, 18:17, 14:20, 20:26) in the first round of Group C at the European Men's Basketball Championship.
Neither basketball to face a middle class rival like Georgia nor the character to get up and hit the table when the game was worse painted. Spain fell this Thursday at its premiere at the Eurobasket for 83-69 and left a bad feeling both in the game and in the mood. Only on one occasion was it ahead in the scoreboard (32-33) in a meeting that felt decisive to scare away the five defeats of the preparation tour and reinforce the morale of a renewe…
The second day of the European Basketball Championship served up the first big surprise. Georgia, led by an old acquaintance of Slovenian parquet, Aleksandar Džikić, defeated the defenders of the Spanish title with a score of 83:69. In Slovenian Group D, Israel was expected to beat Iceland (83:71).
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