By Aris Barkas/ barkas@eurohoops.net
It was a busy Wednesday for the teams preparing for the upcoming Eurobasket. Spain playing without Rudy Fernandez got one more home win against FYROM (77-55) as Marc Gasol had a double double (11 p, 10 r.). The favorite prevailed in this preparation game, but Lithuania just survived (78-76) against Finland which was led by 20 points of Petteri Koponen against 17 of Linas Kleiza. The victim of an upset was Russia which was beaten 74-72 by the Czech Republic as Tomas Satoransky scored 15 points.
On Thursday morning it was announced that guard Martynas Gecevicius was cut by the Lithuanian roster and the same happened in Greece with forward Vlado Jankovic. Also Bosnia announced the final roster for the upcoming Eurobasket with Mirza Teletovic of the Nets and naturalized guard Zack Wright being the two stars. The roster of the team consists of Pasalic, Dedovic, Gordic, Sutalo, Masic, Dalibor Persic, Bavcic, Sinanovic, Kikanovic and Stipanovic.