Spain won the battle in the final and put Greece one foot out of the medal race. 84-77 the final, 19+12 by Santi Aldama, 13 by Llull and 7 with 10 assists for Brown. Giannis’ 27 were not enough for Greece.<\/p>\n
Rudy’s shot, out at the end of the game.<\/p>\n
FIRST QUARTER<\/strong><\/p>\n 21-22 at the end of the first quarter, Spain stays afloat with 10 from Santi Aldama and 8 from Sergio Llull, two threes at the end of the quarter. Greece more physical 9 of Giannis.<\/p>\n SECOND QUARTER<\/strong><\/p>\n A devastating 28-11 lead for Spain, who make 11\/17 from three for an unexpected 49-35 at halftime. 12 for Aldama, 11 for Llull, 7 for Pradilla, while Greece misses out with 14\/35 from the field and Giannis dry in the second quarter.<\/p>\n THIRD QUARTER<\/strong><\/p>\n Toliopoulos at the buzzer finds a front three on Giannis’ offload. Spain ahead 62-56, 15 for Aldama and 11 for Llull. Greece with Giannis himself up by 17.<\/p>\n FOURTH QUARTER<\/strong><\/p>\n 5 points from Giannis and Greece to -1 before Rudy’s triple. The game is on fire with back-to-back triples, Rudy again from outside for 71-67. Toliopoulos was the hero you don’t expect, scoring 14 points at 71-69, while Giannis dunked 71-71 at 4.39. But, with Rudy leaving the court with a blow to the ballot, Greece’s attack stops, and Spain with Llull gets to +6 at 2.42. Scariolo’s defense becomes asphyxiating, Giannis is whistled for an infraction after a near-loss by Toliopoulos, while Aldama dunks on an offensive rebound for +8. Papanikolaou puts the -5 at 90\u2018\u2019, Giannis for the basket and foul for the 80-77 at 56\u2018\u2019. Greece’s number 34 has a triple to tie the game but goes short, and Willy goes to the line for 2\/2 to make it 82-77. And the contest ends. 84-77 by Diaz at the buzzer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Spain won the challenge in the final and put Greece one foot out of the medal race. 84-77 the final<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":399162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[249,381,303],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-399163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece","category-olympic-games","category-spain"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/07\/Aldama.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399163"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=399163"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=399163"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=399163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}