{"id":486270,"date":"2026-03-02T21:05:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=486270"},"modified":"2026-03-02T21:05:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:05:10","slug":"toliopoulos-show-fuels-greeces-road-response-in-podgorica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/toliopoulos-show-fuels-greeces-road-response-in-podgorica\/","title":{"rendered":"Toliopoulos show fuels Greece\u2019s road response in Podgorica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1861\" data-end=\"2289\">Greece beat Montenegro <strong data-start=\"1931\" data-end=\"1940\">79-65<\/strong> in Round 4 of the <strong data-start=\"1959\" data-end=\"1979\">MundoBasket 2027<\/strong> qualifiers to move back to first in <strong data-start=\"2016\" data-end=\"2027\">Group B<\/strong>, led by <strong data-start=\"2036\" data-end=\"2086\">Vassilis Toliopoulos\u2019 27 points and 10 assists<\/strong> (plus 5 rebounds). Montenegro got <strong data-start=\"2121\" data-end=\"2141\">Igor Drobnjak 14<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2146\" data-end=\"2166\">Dino Radoncic 13<\/strong>, but couldn\u2019t match Greece\u2019s control, as Toliopoulos finished 7-for-13 from three after a 19-point first half (5\/6 3PT).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2291\" data-end=\"2572\">Greece opened with Moraitis, Toliopoulos, Papanikolaou, Choukgaz and Mitoglou and led 22-18 after the first quarter. They grabbed their first double-digit lead in the second (33-23) and went to halftime up <strong data-start=\"2497\" data-end=\"2506\">44-35<\/strong>, generating 20 points off Montenegro\u2019s 10 first-half turnovers.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2574\" data-end=\"2935\">Greece stretched it to <strong data-start=\"2597\" data-end=\"2606\">52-35<\/strong> early in the third before Montenegro cut it to six late (57-53 at the end of the quarter). Toliopoulos then hit his sixth three and assisted Antetokounmpo\u2019s dunk to push it back out, and a late Papanikolaou three made it 77-65 as Greece closed the 79-65 win; next up on July 2 are Romania vs Greece and Montenegro vs Portugal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the home loss, Greece answer back at Moraca and reclaim the top spot in Group B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":486265,"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":[249,279,383],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-486270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece","category-montenegro","category-world-cup"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/Toliopoulos.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486270","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=486270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486270"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=486270"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=486270"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=486270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}