Eurobasket: Greece and Giannis beat Finland for bronze

Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 30 points to guide Greece to a closed victory against Finland in the match for the Bronze Medal at the Eurobasket 2025.

Greece achieved the Bronze Medal in it Eurobasketthe first in an international competition for its great star Giannis Antetokounmpo, colossal with 30 points in the victory 92-88 against Finlandthat despite having everything against the start of the last quarter, he took character to squeeze until the last seconds.

Quoted on the track two of the five teams with better triple percentages of the tournament, both complied with the forecasts and made the dawn of the duel a festival of the outer shot. Thus, only Antetokounmppo with four free throws and a basket and Mikael Jantunen With another dared to get timidly in the middle of the crossfire.

Nine of the first fifteen points of the Greeks and also nine, but of the first eleven, of the Finns, distributed in the initial seven minutes, came from the perimeter. And of all nobody achieved more than Tyler Dorsywho scored the three of the Hellenic side to share with Giannis the fifteen with which his squad was presented in the parquet.

The dynamic did not change with the passage of the minutes. In fact there were only five two-point baskets between the two at the end of the first act, where Greece arrived with nine favorable income points that was about to counteract the rival with a partial of 3-11 when returning to the parquet driven by the young man Miikka Muurinen.

The answer was immediate, a 7-0 that turned off the reaction and caused the rest of the second quarter outside of Spanoulis, with Giannis Antetokounmpo fattening their figures and Vasileios Toliopoulos putting themselves in front of the edge of the break, which they arrived by sending for fourteen and with better sensations.

In that margin, Greece continued to move during the beginning of the second part until Finland took advantage of a couple of sections in which they did not end up hitting their attacks to give small bites to the result, located six points in the absence of two and a half minutes for half an hour.

It appeared, for the umpteenth time, the hierarchy of Giannis Antetokounmpo, which with two baskets from his hands cemented a partial of 10-3 that left everything almost as he was when they went to the locker room and allowed his own to caress the bronze before the start of the decisive room. It was a passing sensation, because there was still a lot to sweat.

The mattress, far from being deflated, swelled even more, up to 17 margin points in the absence of four and a half minutes for the conclusion. From there, the Nordics began to do what they had not done before, they were about to get the outstanding applying at the last minute before a confident opponent.

In less than minute and a half they put ten and with the success in the free of Elias Valtonen and Lauri Markkanen and a triple of Oliver Nkamhoua, four in the absence of 54 seconds.

Giannis Antetokounmpowith a 2+1, fear momentarily moved away, but the Finns continued to insist until they were only one down with five seconds to play. Finally it was Giannis again, recreating in its endless routine of the free throws, which certified the bronze despite the failed attempt of Jantu Final of Jantu