Basketball European Championships: Susijengi lost to Serbia

Finnish The basketball team lost to the reigning Olympic bronze team in Serbia in the last match of the European Championship 95-105 in Espoo.

The best basketball maker in Finland was Mikael Jantunen (18).

The most famous player in the Serbian lineup, the game manager Aleksa Avramovic It took two thirds of the final minutes from Finland. In total, Avramovic scored 21 points with 6/9 game -throwing accuracy and fed nine baskets.

When Russia attacked Ukraine in 2022, Fiba, the International Basketball Association, closed Russia’s international competition, but has not prevented a group of foreign athletes from continuing their profession in Russian clubs.

Avramovic is one of them.

Last year, Avramovic was awarded the best defender of the Paris Olympics basketball tournament. In the semi -final against the United States, Avramovic scored 20 points.

After the Olympics, Avramovic moved to TsSKA in Moscow. For Western European basketball player, working on a Russian team in the Russian team as a Russian attack on Ukraine would have almost certainly meant the end of national team games – France dropped his longtime backman Thomas Heurtelin after the national team after signing a contract in St. Petersburg in 2022.

After two seasons played in Russia, Heurtel has returned to Europe, but at least for the time being, he was not taken back to the French national team.

In Serbia, attitudes towards Russia are another country. In addition to Avramovic, Serbia was also represented in Espoo Dusan Besscwho plays in Avotor Saratov in Russia.

The Russian relationship is one of the reasons why Serbia’s EU membership has not yet been realized and Serbia is not involved in the escalator front of Russia.

Finnish There were two men in the first meters of their national team’s career on the exchange bench who have an age difference of 13 years. Michael Aalto30, for the first time in his life in the line -up of any national team in Finland, while he had sat next to him Samu Adler has matured into the men’s national team at the age of 17.

Both Aalto and Adler sat on the bench for the whole match. For next fall’s European Championships, it was noteworthy that, like Adler, they would be struggling for the last places in the backfield Jacob Grandison, Ilari Seppälä and Perttu Blomgren They got to the field to show their skills.

Of them, Grandison (8 points, 4 rebounds) and Seppälä (6 points, 3 assists) succeeded.

Finland played an excellent opening half and took a break in the 57-51 lead.

Finland lost the ball only three times during the opening period, won the rebounds 18-14 and got 9 more throws than opponents. Of the home team’s opening half of 36, 24 games left behind the third arc, and the thirds sank 45.8 %.

At the beginning of the third quarter, Serbia raised the intensity of his defense and forced Finland to lose seven in less than eight minutes. After three quarters, Serbia had turned a six-point back distance into a 79-71 lead.

At the beginning of the last quarter, Finland wrapped up with a small five-81 lead in a small five Edon Maxhunin Three.