{"id":456921,"date":"2025-08-27T14:50:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=456921"},"modified":"2025-08-27T14:50:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:50:44","slug":"lithuania-dominates-great-britain-94-70-in-eurobasket-2025-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lithuania-dominates-great-britain-94-70-in-eurobasket-2025-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuania Dominates Great Britain 94-70 in EuroBasket 2025 Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>\u00a0<\/b>Tip-off at <strong>12:30 PM<\/strong> marked the start of <strong>EuroBasket 2025<\/strong> with the Group B opener between <strong>Great Britain<\/strong> and <strong>Lithuania<\/strong>, played at the <strong>Tampere Deck Arena<\/strong> in Tampere, Finland.<\/p>\n<p>Lithuania controlled the game from start to finish, with the decisive run coming in the <strong>third quarter<\/strong>, fueled by <strong>Jonas Valan\u010di\u016bnas<\/strong>, <strong>Rokas Jokubaitis<\/strong>, and <strong>Matas Normantas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Great Britain attempted a late comeback in the final ten minutes but never managed to cut the deficit below double digits.<\/p>\n<p>Final score: <strong>Lithuania 94, Great Britain 70<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top performers for Lithuania:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jonas Valan\u010di\u016bnas: <strong>18 points, 9 rebounds, 2 steals<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Rokas Jokubaitis: <strong>12 points, 5 rebounds, 6 assists<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\u0104\u017euolas Tubelis: <strong>17 points, 7 rebounds, 2 steals<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Top performers for Great Britain:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gabe Olaseni Yeboah: <strong>17 points, 4 rebounds, 2 blocks<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Tarik Phillip: <strong>10 points, 3 assists<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Myles Hesson: <strong>10 points, 5 rebounds<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KrX4nLG9S5\">pic.twitter.com\/KrX4nLG9S5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FIBA EuroBasket (@EuroBasket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuroBasket\/status\/1960685896941842681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 27, 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>Lithuania controlled the game from start to finish<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":456919,"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":[377],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-456921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurobasket"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/08\/rokus-jokubaitis-photo-fiba.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456921","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\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456921"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=456921"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=456921"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=456921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}