{"id":456938,"date":"2025-08-27T16:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T14:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=456938"},"modified":"2025-08-27T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T14:10:06","slug":"neemias-queta-dominates-as-portugal-defeats-czechia-62-50-in-eurobasket-2025-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/neemias-queta-dominates-as-portugal-defeats-czechia-62-50-in-eurobasket-2025-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Neemias Queta Dominates as Portugal Defeats Czechia 62-50 in EuroBasket 2025 Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tip-off at 1:45 PM marked the start of the EuroBasket 2025 Group A matchup between Czechia\u00a0and Portugal, played at the Arena Riga in Latvia. The game was officiated by Liszka, Ciulin, and Zapolski.<\/p>\n<p>Both teams struggled offensively in a slow, low-scoring first half. After the break, Portugal tried to pull away behind \u00a0Lisboa, but Krejci and his teammates kept the game close. In the final minutes, however, <strong>Neemias Queta dominated the paint<\/strong>, while the Czechia managed just four points in the last six minutes. The Boston Celtics center ended the game with 23 points, 18 rebounds, 2 steals, 4 blocks, shooting 11\/15 from the field.<\/p>\n<p>Final score: Portugal 62, Czechia 50 \u2014 a strong debut for coach M\u00e1rio Gomes\u2019 squad.<\/p>\n<p>Top performers for Portugal:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Neemias Queta: 23 points, 18 rebounds, 2 steals, 4 blocks<\/li>\n<li>Rafael Lisboa: 15 points in 22 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Travante Williams: 10 points, 5 rebounds, 5 steals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Top performers for Czech Republic:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vit Krejci: 10 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists<\/li>\n<li>Martin Peterka: 8 points, 7 rebounds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Czech Republic struggled offensively, finishing with just 40% shooting from two and 20% from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YbUpMOgR0Q\">pic.twitter.com\/YbUpMOgR0Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FIBA EuroBasket (@EuroBasket) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EuroBasket\/status\/1960702525805408764?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>The Boston Celtics center ended the game with 23 points, 18 rebounds, 2 steals, 4 blocks, shooting 11\/15 from the field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":456936,"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],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[19],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-456938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurobasket","typology-video"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/08\/neemias-queta-photo-fiba.png","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456938","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=456938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456938"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=456938"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=456938"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=456938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}