The Men’s National Team started with a victory in the first game at the “Agean Acropolis”, beating Montenegro 86-57 at SEF.
The tournament will continue tomorrow with the match between Montenegro and Bahamas (26/6, 8pm) and will end the day after tomorrow with the match between Greece and Bahamas (27/6, 8pm, ERT2).
The National Team started with three consecutive points (Charalambopoulos, Walkap, Kalathis, Papanikolaou), which together with a nail from Papagiannis raised the score to 11-0 (3′) and shortly afterwards to 14-5 (4′).
Greece didn’t slow down, they formed very good partnerships with Nick Kalathis, creating impressive phases, got the rebounds and the score became 42-20 after 17 minutes.
Toliopoulos kept the difference at the same level, Laurentzakis with two consecutive three-pointers made it 65-38, while Mitoglou and Moraitis took the baton to 69-41 at the beginning of the fourth quarter.
Mantzoukas also wrote his name on the scorers list (84-55 at 38΄40΄΄) and the game ended in a very beautiful atmosphere created by the public and in a game where Vassilis Spanoulis saw them and his 12 players score!