By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
The Gameday 2 of the 2021 EuroBasket qualifiers has started today (23/2) with seven games across Groups A, B, E, and F. Among them, some unexpected outcomes.
Thaddus McFadden stole the spotlight with 33 points and seven assists as he led Georgia to a 94-90 road win against Serbia. McFadden was also the one to bank the go-ahead three for 92-90 with 40 seconds left and sealed the deal from the free-throw line later on.
❄ @ThadJr12 with ICE IN HIS VEINS as @_GeoBasketball ?? get the 94-90 win in ??! #EuroBasket pic.twitter.com/Uq5XvMwbfA
— FIBA EuroBasket (@EuroBasket) February 23, 2020
He got big-time help from Giorgi Shermadini who notched a double-double with 23 points and 11 rebounds while for Serbia, Aleksa Avramovic and Ognjen Jaramaz answered with 27 and 22 points respectively.
Meanwhile, the reigning FIBA World Cup champions suffered the first loss as well. Led by AJ Slaughter’s 26 and Aaron Cel’s 17 points, Poland logged a rather comfortable 80-69 win on the road against Spain.
Group A
Spain – Poland 69-80 (Diez 16 – Slaughter 26)
Israel – Romania /24.02.2020 – 18:00 CET/
| GAMES | STREAK | GAME POINTS | POINTS | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Team | P | W | L | % | Last 5 | For | Agt | +/- | FA | AA | |
| 1 | Poland | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50.0 |
|
151 | 144 | 7 | 75.5 | 72 | 3 |
| 2 | Spain | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50.0 |
|
153 | 151 | 2 | 76.5 | 75.5 | 3 |
| 3 | Israel | 1 | 1 | 0 | 100 |
|
75 | 71 | 4 | 75 | 71 | 2 |
| 4 | Romania | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
|
71 | 84 | -13 | 71 | 84 | 1 |
Group B
Russia – North Macedonia 77-67 (Fridzon 23 – Whittington 14)
Estonia – Italy 81-87 (Kitsing 22 – Vitaly 22)
| GAMES | STREAK | GAME POINTS | POINTS | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Team | P | W | L | % | Last 5 | For | Agt | +/- | FA | AA | |
| 1 | Italy | 2 | 2 | 0 | 100 |
|
170 | 145 | 25 | 85 | 72.5 | 4 |
| 2 | Estonia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50.0 |
|
162 | 159 | 3 | 81 | 79.5 | 3 |
| 3 | Russia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50.0 |
|
141 | 150 | -9 | 70.5 | 75 | 3 |
| 4 | North Macedonia | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
|
139 | 158 | -19 | 69.5 | 79 | 2 |
Group E
Serbia – Georgia 90-94 (Avramovic 27 – McFadden 33)
Switzerland – Finland 64-69 (Mladjan 12 – Salin 25)
| GAMES | STREAK | GAME POINTS | POINTS | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Team | P | W | L | % | Last 5 | For | Agt | +/- | FA | AA | |
| 1 | Georgia | 2 | 2 | 0 | 100 |
|
190 | 178 | 12 | 95 | 89 | 4 |
| 2 | Serbia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50.0 |
|
170 | 152 | 18 | 85 | 76 | 3 |
| 3 | Switzerland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
|
88 | 96 | -8 | 88 | 96 | 1 |
| 4 | Finland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
|
58 | 80 | -22 | 58 | 80 | 1 |
Group F
Slovenia – Austria 85-78 (Muric 19 – Vujosevic 18)
Ukraine – Hungary 60-62 (Bobrov 12 – Vojvoda 11)
| GAMES | STREAK | GAME POINTS | POINTS | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Team | P | W | L | % | Last 5 | For | Agt | +/- | FA | AA | |
| 1 | Hungary | 2 | 2 | 0 | 100 |
|
139 | 135 | 4 | 69.5 | 67.5 | 4 |
| 2 | Ukraine | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50.0 |
|
148 | 135 | 13 | 74 | 67.5 | 3 |
| 3 | Slovenia | 2 | 1 | 1 | 50.0 |
|
160 | 155 | 5 | 80 | 77.5 | 3 |
| 4 | Austria | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
|
151 | 173 | -22 | 75.5 | 86.5 | 2 |
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