{"id":486092,"date":"2026-03-01T20:13:42","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T19:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=486092"},"modified":"2026-03-01T20:13:42","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T19:13:42","slug":"nkamhoua-leads-the-charge-as-finland-rally-past-belgium-in-espoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/nkamhoua-leads-the-charge-as-finland-rally-past-belgium-in-espoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nkamhoua leads the charge as Finland rally past Belgium in Espoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1844\" data-end=\"2209\">Finland beat Belgium <strong data-start=\"1912\" data-end=\"1921\">78-75<\/strong> in Group G of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2027 European Qualifiers: <strong data-start=\"1992\" data-end=\"2034\">Olivier Nkamhoua scored a game-high 23<\/strong> (7\/11 FG, 7\/7 FT, 5 rebounds, 2 steals), while <strong data-start=\"2082\" data-end=\"2099\">Loic Schwartz<\/strong> led Belgium with <strong data-start=\"2117\" data-end=\"2123\">19<\/strong> on 6\/9 from three. Finland also got <strong data-start=\"2160\" data-end=\"2179\">Edon Maxhuni 14<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2184\" data-end=\"2206\">Mikael Jantunen 12<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2211\" data-end=\"2535\">The comeback ignited after Finland trailed 34-43 early in the third: Maxhuni\u2019s pull-up three with 1:47 left put Finland ahead 49-47 for their first second-half lead. Finland then closed the quarter with a <strong data-start=\"2416\" data-end=\"2424\">10-0<\/strong> run to take control at 53-47, fueled by <strong data-start=\"2465\" data-end=\"2492\">11 points from Nkamhoua<\/strong> plus key work from <strong data-start=\"2512\" data-end=\"2532\">Alexander Madsen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2537\" data-end=\"2867\">In crunch time (4:44), Finland won it <strong data-start=\"2575\" data-end=\"2583\">14-6<\/strong> with Madsen highlighted as the late-game MVP, dominating the glass 8-1 and going 6-of-7 at the line. Belgium\u2019s late scoring came only from three-point shots and they failed to make a two-point field goal in the closing minutes, while Nkamhoua added 3 crunch-time points to seal it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finland erase a 10-point hole at Espoo Metro Arena and close it out late in a thriller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":486091,"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":[215,233,383],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-486092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-belgium","category-finland","category-world-cup"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/HCWHOVDWoAA7N4W.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486092","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=486092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486092"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=486092"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=486092"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=486092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}