The Russian national team extended the winning series at the European Basketball Championship

The Russian team won the eighth victory in a row at the European Basketball Championship among men's teams, which is held these days in Lithuania. In the final mother of the group round of the tournament, the wards of David Blatt outplayed the Macedonia team with a score of 63:61 (19:20, 18:14, 14:15, 12:12) and went to the quarter -finals from first place in the group of F, receiving Serbs to rivals.

The meeting for the first place in the group, as expected, turned out to be quite stressful, in all quarters the struggle was in every attack. Despite success, our team turned out to be far from perfect. For the second time, the Russians for the second time at the current tournament for moments before the final siren brought the three -point throw of Captain Sergey Moni. Earlier, he saved the national team from failure in a match with the Slovenes.

“Like the last time I did not expect that I would get,” the hero of the match admitted. “This is just a crazy ball, especially since I got from the shield, but there was little time left, so I quit. I was very glad that I got it.”

The most effective in the Russian team was Alexei Swede, who scored 14 points and made 4 programs. On the account of Andrei Vorontsevich 8 rebounds. The Macedonians were the best of the Antich feather (10 rebounds and 5 assists) and Bo Mackelebb (16 points scored).

The David Blatt team, having taken first place in group F, received the Serbian national team in the quarterfinals of the quarterfinal. The meeting will be held on September 15th. In the eight of the strongest, Spain-words, France-Greek and Lithuania-Macedonia will also compete.

In addition to Russians, no one can boast of a win -win series in Lithuania, by this moment all the national teams have at least one defeat, including the current winners of the Spaniards tournament. For two weeks in Lithuania, the wards of Blatt won the national teams of Ukraine (73:64), Georgia (65:58), Belgium (79:58), Bulgaria (89:77), Slovenia (65:64), Finland (79:60), Greece (83:67) and Macedonia.