By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
Patrick Mills … began to run and attack to Great Britain’s basket at such a pace that no one could stop him. The Australian guard led his team to the victory with an impressive 106-75 due to his 39 points in the most “hot” night at this year’s Olympics by surpassing Carmelo Anthony.
The hosts thought until half time the win and the quarterfinals were near as they were up to 14 points (42-28, 17′). However everything changed, in the second half, when the Australians dressed like… NBAers. «Boomers» scored 70 points overturning completely the game. Luol Deng made again a lot of shots, but with 3/15, he couldn’t change Britain’s destiny and prevent the disqualification.
Brazil had an easy task against China (98-59). Now the Brazilians have the opportunity to reach the second place of the group if they win Spain in the last game. Chinese were back to the score 25-9 since the first quarter and failed to come back either when all the Brazilians starters were in the bench. The last hopes for Chinese to qualify had gone with this result and now the game against Great Britain will be like a “friendly” one.
Pablo Prigioni played just 12 minutes, but Argentina had no problem to overcome easily Nigeria (93-79) and secure at least the third seat in the group. The rest stars of the team, Scola (22 p.), Delfino (18p.), Nocioni (17p.) and Ginobili (13p.) took the lead early on and destroyed Nigeria that has the chance to qualify only if they win France and Tunisia win Lithuania…