{"id":486093,"date":"2026-03-01T20:15:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T19:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=486093"},"modified":"2026-03-01T20:15:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T19:15:15","slug":"israel-cruise-in-limassol-cyprus-never-find-an-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/israel-cruise-in-limassol-cyprus-never-find-an-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel cruise in Limassol, Cyprus never find an answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1772\" data-end=\"2115\">Israel won <strong data-start=\"1830\" data-end=\"1839\">83-54<\/strong> at Cyprus in Group E of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2027 European Qualifiers: top scorers <strong data-start=\"1932\" data-end=\"1953\">Idan Zalmanson 13<\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"1955\" data-end=\"1974\">Roman Sorkin 13<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1979\" data-end=\"1996\">Adam Ariel 13<\/strong>, while <strong data-start=\"2004\" data-end=\"2026\">Filippos Tigkas 15<\/strong> led Cyprus. The visitors led from start to finish, never trailing for a single second.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2117\" data-end=\"2403\">There was no major swing: Israel set the tone immediately with a <strong data-start=\"2182\" data-end=\"2191\">24-12<\/strong> first quarter and kept extending the gap. Cyprus had a brief second-quarter spark \u2014 a quick <strong data-start=\"2284\" data-end=\"2291\">6-0<\/strong> burst from 27-15 to 27-21 on threes by <strong data-start=\"2331\" data-end=\"2352\">Ioannis Giannaras<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2357\" data-end=\"2374\">Simon Michail<\/strong> \u2014 but couldn\u2019t sustain it.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2405\" data-end=\"2692\">Israel\u2019s knockout punch came in the third with a <strong data-start=\"2454\" data-end=\"2461\">9-0<\/strong> run from 57-38 to 66-38. Zalmanson went 5-for-5 from two with 8 rebounds, Sorkin posted a 13-point, 11-rebound double-double, and Ariel shot 5-for-6 overall with 3-for-3 from deep, as the lead peaked at <strong data-start=\"2665\" data-end=\"2674\">81-49<\/strong> with 1:24 left.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wire-to-wire road win at Spyros Kyprianou Arena, with the margin growing every quarter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":486089,"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":[223,255,383],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-486093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","category-israel","category-world-cup"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/HCWKWGXXcAQ9ewe.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486093","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=486093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486093"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=486093"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=486093"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=486093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}