After the dull stages, Finland overturned both Denmark in an insignificant European qualifying match in Copenhagen.
First, all 24 countries in the summer men’s basketball European Championship Tournament were already clear before Monday. Finland made its way to home races as a host.
For Susijeng, the European qualifying phase ended with an 83-77 victory over Denmark, which lost its seam to the European Championship last Friday after losing to Georgia. For Finland, the victory was second in the qualifiers.
– This was not a beauty contest, but we showed even more character and attitude, his career 21. Lassi Tuovi Comment.
On Monday, Denmark was more profitable than Finland and at best led the match by 13 points. At the last 10 minutes, the Tuovin shields showed the cabinet’s place and took the tired opponent to the name 24-7.
The Susijengi lead only 2.5 minutes before the end when the defense game condensed and Mikael Jantunen For the first time, Layup raised Finland to a 78-76 lead.
“We made an unnecessarily difficult game for ourselves”
Olivier nkamhou There was a clear number one player in Finland at 26/8/3s. In the solution Elias Valtonen 18/7 became a hero.
Other Finns were making points Sasu Salin 11/6s, Jantunen 10/7/3s, Ilari Seppälä 9 Edon Maxhuni 5 and Andre Gustavson 4. Maxhuni groaned his ankle and did not play at the end.
– It wasn’t an easy match. Denmark got a good start and we made this unnecessarily difficult game for ourselves. When we started to put pressure on the ball and the feed lines, we got a nice rally on, says Seppälä, who had the best plus/minus reading on the field.
Finland was clearly better than its opponent in two categories: 23-13 in passes and 6-15 for ball losses.
Danish basketball player Kevin Larsen 22/11 did almost what he wanted in the first three periods. Also Iffe Lundberg 19/6/6, Tobias Jensen 13 and Shavon Shields 11/7 succeeded from the home team.
Serbia 6 6 0 491- 376 12
Georgia 6 3 3 419- 421 9
Finland 6 2 4 475-515 8
Denmark 6 1 5 400-473 7