The Dominican Republic will play against Croatia and lGiannis Antetokounmpo’s Greece will do so against Luka Doncic’s Slovenia on Saturday in the semifinals of the pre-Olympic tournament in Piraeus (Greece).
The Slovenia team, led by Luka Doncic, who scored 36 pointss, secured their place in the semifinals with a clear victory against New Zealand by 78-104 to forget the defeat in their debut on Tuesday against the Croatians by 92-108.
SLOVENIA, NEARLY
With this victory, the Slovenian team is placed in the second position in Group A and advances to the semifinals of the pre-Olympic thanks to the victory by more than 10 points against the New Zealanders.
Slovenia was ahead at all times, although the result at half-time (39-46) classified New Zealand, but Doncic’s spectacular performance in the last two quarters took his team to the next phase. The Dallas Mavericks player, named MVP of the game, recorded a triple-double with 36 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists in 35 minutes.
Their rival will be the hosts, Greece, in their case after beating Egypt 93-71 in a match in which the Greek coach, Vasilis Spanoulis, I say rest to Giannis Antetokounmpo.
In the absence of the Milwaukee Bucks star, the Greek team was led in attack in the Peace and Friendship pavilion by Georgios Papagiannis and Konstantinos Mitoglou, both with 16 points, as well as by Kostas Papanikolaou, legend of Olympiacos and who added another 15 in just 16 minutes. Nick Calathes had 9 assists.
