
Today, on September 6, the men's basketball team of Ukraine will play their fourth match of the group round of the European Championship, in which it will oppose the team of Greece.
As the website of the Basketball Federation of Ukraine tells, the team of Ainars Bagatskis won all three of their opening matches at the tournament and already guaranteed themselves a place in the playoffs. The same can be said about Greeks, who are also playing without defeats in the tournament. Therefore, the game Ukraine - Greece is a match for victory in the group, because in the case of today's victory, regardless of the result of the match of the last round, the winner will finish first.
However, for now, due to the fact that both teams have already guaranteed themselves participation in the playoffs, today they will be able to play at their pleasure, without pressure, showing bright basketball. First of all, this concerns the National team of Ukraine - the coach of the Italian national team called the lack of pressure on the Ukrainians one of the reasons for our victory in yesterday's game.
Greece star Giannis Adetokunbo is the second one in the list of scorers at EuroBasket, averaging 26.0 points per game, fourth in rebounds (11.0 per game) and second in efficiency (30.5 RE). He missed the match against Great Britain, but he has to play against Ukraine.
Tyler Dorsey (18.3 points per game) and Kostas Slukas (11.3 points per game) are also having a good European Championship.
Our Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk took fifth place in terms of productivity (20.0 points) and 11th place in terms of efficiency (RE 21.3).
This will be only the second official match of the National teams in history - at EuroBasket-2003, the group stage match ended with a victory for Greece 79:73.
The match Greece - Ukraine will be broadcast by the XSPORT TV channel at 18:00 Kyiv time.