After a day of rest, the Olympic men's basketball qualifying tournament was held again in the four major regions of the world. Today begins with a brutal knockout stage, a winner-winning match, the losing side will miss the Paris Olympics, and the winner will have to go through the final of each division to determine whether they can enter Paris.
The first appearance of the knockout round will be a "heavyweight" focus match, in the Greek division, the Greek team led by Brother Alphabet will face the Slovenian team led by Doncic. As soon as the game came up, the Greek team took advantage of the home court advantage to give the Slovenian team a "dismount", starting with a wave of 13-0, and it was not until the middle of the quarter that Doncic scored 2 points from a layup and Slovenia opened the scoring. The Greek team also maintained this score advantage until the end of the quarter, and even established a 23-point score advantage in the first half of the second quarter.
Slovenia then picked up some three-pointers and recovered some points in the second half of the second quarter. In the third quarter, the Greek team Wokamp hit consecutive three-pointers to help the Greek team stretch the score to 20 points. Then Doncic's scoring streak stabilized the situation a little. But in the first half of the fourth quarter, the Greek team launched another wave of 18-3 attacks, completely taking the game away. In the end, Greece defeated Slovenia 96-68 to reach the final of this division. In this game, Brother Alphabet's presence was relatively small, with 13 points, 4 rebounds and 2 assists, and Doncic scored a game-high 21 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists, but he was unable to support himself and bid farewell to this Paris Olympics.
The first match in the Latvian zone was between Brazil and the Philippines. The Filipino team got off to a good start, relying on a 12-2 wave at the end of the first quarter to build a 10-point advantage at the end of the first quarter. In the second quarter, although the offensive efficiency of the Philippine team decreased, the offensive efficiency of the Brazilian team was not very high, and the Brazilian team played 15-11 in the single quarter to recover some points slightly.
The Philippine team completely collapsed in the third quarter, and the Brazilian team played a wave of 14-0 in the second half, and the Philippine team hit two points until the third quarter when it was still four minutes. The Filipino team scored only 6 points in the entire third quarter, and the Brazilian team played 24-6 in the whole quarter to establish a score advantage of more than 10 points. In the fourth quarter, both sides had good offensive efficiency and played a balanced game. Brazil relied on a wave in the third quarter to defeat the Philippines 71-60 to reach the finals of this division, and the Philippines were eliminated.
Latvia, also in the Latvian division, also advanced to the final, where they will face Brazil. However, the Latvian team did not have an easy game against Cameroon, and the two sides played evenly in the first three quarters. It was only a 9-0 run at the start of the fourth quarter that led to a 72-59 victory over Cameroon to advance to the final.
Also eliminated from Asia was Lebanon. In the Spanish division, the match between the Bahamas and Lebanon was the first match to start in this division. In this game, the Bahamas team showed the absolute advantage of strength, in the first quarter to establish a 15-point score advantage, although the second and third quarters allowed the Lebanese team to recover some points, but in the fourth quarter the Bahamas team's three NBA players Ayton, Gordon and Hield consecutive points still took away the victory of the game, and finally defeated the Lebanese team 89-72 to enter the finals. After the Lebanese team was eliminated, the Asian team was "wiped out" in this Olympic qualifying tournament.
Ayton played very well in this game, getting a double-double of 24 points, 15 rebounds and 1 assist. Hield also played well, also scoring a double-double of 19 points, 3 rebounds and 10 assists. Gordon had 13 points, five rebounds and three assists.
In the Greek region, Croatia narrowly defeated the Dominican Republic 80-77 in the other match and will face the host Greece in the final of this region. The game was a very anxious game, and the two sides were tied at the end of the third quarter. The score in the fourth quarter was also staggered, with Croatia scoring seven straight points with three minutes left to give them a seven-point lead with 30 seconds left in the game. But the Dominican team scored six points in a row in 30 seconds and almost achieved a comeback.
Another close match was between Spain's home teams Spain and Finland. The two sides were evenly matched in the first quarter, with Finland leading by three points. In the second quarter, the Spanish team took the lead, relying on a wave of 7-0 in the first half of the quarter and Brown's strength in the second half of the quarter, and played 21-10 in this quarter, overtaking the score and opening up some points at the same time.
But in the third quarter, the Finnish team was full of three-point firepower and beat Spain to overtake the score 29-18. In the fourth quarter, the scores were staggered, and by the final two minutes the two sides were tied at 72. Spain's Willy Hernandez took over the game at a critical moment, scoring eight points through a strong basket and a foul free throw, and finally Spain narrowly defeated Finland and the Bahamas 81-74 in the final.
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