{"id":456611,"date":"2025-08-25T15:00:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=456611"},"modified":"2025-08-25T14:50:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T12:50:36","slug":"fibas-latest-power-ranking-ahead-of-eurobasket-2025-italy-drops-and-greece-climbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/fibas-latest-power-ranking-ahead-of-eurobasket-2025-italy-drops-and-greece-climbs\/","title":{"rendered":"FIBA\u2019s latest power ranking ahead of EuroBasket 2025: Italy drops and Greece climbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"146\" data-end=\"460\">FIBA has released its latest power ranking ahead of EuroBasket 2025. Gianmarco Pozzecco\u2019s Italy has dropped two spots after previously being ranked sixth. Greece, on the other hand, made a big leap forward, moving from eighth to fourth place. The podium remains unchanged. Below is the evaluation on the Azzurri.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"462\" data-end=\"563\"><strong data-start=\"462\" data-end=\"487\">FIBA\u2019s take on Italy:<\/strong> &#8220;Two losses since the last time we checked in. Two places lower, simple.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"565\" data-end=\"727\">Looking closer, the first half against Greece was really special: in Athens they built a 10-point lead, with Simone Fontecchio pushing it to 13 before halftime.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"729\" data-end=\"946\">You never get the feeling he\u2019s forcing things, nor that he\u2019s playing a spectacular game, and then you look at the numbers and think: \u2018Hey, don\u2019t forget about this guy when you talk about potential MVP candidates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">What would you change in volume 4 of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LiveSmart?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@LiveSmart<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EuroBasket?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EuroBasket<\/a> Power Rankings?<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udccaFull list: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UXpuPX2w1V\">https:\/\/t.co\/UXpuPX2w1V<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5MWtX16hv6\">pic.twitter.com\/5MWtX16hv6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FIBA EuroBasket (@EuroBasket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuroBasket\/status\/1959942833030181144?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 25, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIBA\u2019s latest power ranking ahead of EuroBasket: Italy drops and Greece climbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":174,"featured_media":456610,"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":[98,131],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-456611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurobasket","category-italbasket"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/08\/GzMctylXwAEaC1d.jpeg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456611","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\/174"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456611"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=456611"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=456611"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=456611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}