{"id":7331,"date":"2024-11-25T20:37:49","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T20:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/great-britain-lose-to-greece-in-eurobasket-qualifier\/"},"modified":"2024-11-25T20:37:49","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T20:37:49","slug":"great-britain-lose-to-greece-in-eurobasket-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/great-britain-lose-to-greece-in-eurobasket-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Britain lose to Greece in EuroBasket qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Great Britain suffered a 77-67 defeat to Greece in the FIBA EuroBasket 2025 qualifiers.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The GB team had staged a comeback to beat the same team in London on Thursday but could not repeat the feat in Pylaia on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greece led 40-32 at half-time and were in front for most of the match, with Panagiotis Kalaitzakis and Kostas Papanikolaou their joint top scorers with 14 points each respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Myles Hesson led the way for GB with 14 points, while team-mate Quin Ellis chipped in with 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greece have moved top of the group on seven points, with second-placed Czech Republic and Great Britain, in third, on six points. Netherlands are fourth on five points with all side having two games remaining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The top three sides in each group will play in the Euros, which will be hosted by Cyprus, Finland, Latvia and Poland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 42nd edition of the tournament will take place between 27 August and 14 September 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/c93qepzew1vo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Britain suffered a 77-67 defeat to Greece in the FIBA EuroBasket 2025 qualifiers. The GB team had staged a comeback to beat the same team in London on Thursday but could not repeat the feat in Pylaia on Sunday. Greece led 40-32 at half-time and were in front for most of the match, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7333,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331\/revisions\/7333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}