Luka Dončić scores 42 points while Slovenia holds Italy to organize a match in the quarter -final against Germany.
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Riga, Latvia (AP) – Georgia has progressed around the quarter -finals in Eurobasque Tournament for the first time with a dominant victory of 80-70 against France on Sunday.
France was a finalist in Spain in the 2022 final, but the two teams failed to reach the scene in the quarterfinals this time. Georgia will face Finland, which has been eliminated Nikola Jokic Serbia On the Saturday side.
Georgia players shaped the bench at the end of the 16 round match, hugging and jumping from top to bottom while their fans hit the battery and danced in the crowd in Riga, in Latvia.
“Incredible. I am really happy, congratulations to my teammates, everyone, all our fans in Georgia and here,” said Georgia veteran, Giorgi Shermadini. “France is incredible, but today we have played better for defense and offensive.”
History of Sakartvelo 🇬🇪, France is behind the Eurobasket 😳#Eurobasket
– Fiba Eurobasket (@eurobasket) September 7, 2025
Olympic silver medalist France Has only six of his 36 attempts of 3 points for a derisory average of 17% while Georgia obtained a score of more than half of its 3 points and punished France for having frequently fired by marking 20 of 24 free throws.
Georgia led by a point at halftime and at nine years at the beginning of the fourth quarter, with the mixture of athletics of Barcelona, attacking Shengelia and the raw power put pressure on the inexperienced defense of France.
The decreasing offensive of France has failed to obtain Guerschon Yabusele – which marked 36 points Against Poland during the group phase – enough game open and it was too often pushed.
Zaccharie RisacherTHE N ° 1 NBA Propat Pich Last year, found some form while France was rabal in the match and, with three minutes to do, the score was 68-68.
But the waste of France of the 3 points was finally expensive because the Blues could not start.
Shegelia inspired Georgia with 24 points and eight rebounds, while Kamar Baldwin, of American origin, also scored 24 for Georgia, which beat Spain during the group phase.
“We have never stopped fighting, believing,” said Shegelia. “I want to thank the people who came to Riga to support us, we felt the additional energy.”
The leader Sylvain Francisco was scored with 14 points for France. Yabusele was limited to 12 points and Risacher gathered only seven.
The coach of France, Frédéric Faux, was without the star of the NBA Victor Wembanyama – who is dealing with a deep venous thrombosis on the shoulder – and key veterans like Rudy Gobert and Evan Fournier.
In the end, the absence of Wembanyama combined with a new coach and new players were too much.
Dončić dazzles to raise Slovenia
Los Angeles Lakers star Luka Dončić seems more than ready for the next NBA season, after another dazzling show in a Eurobasket Round 16 games.
Dončić finished with 42 points in the victory of Slovenia 84-77 against Italy, a victory that pushed his team to the quarter-finals of the European Championships for the third consecutive time. Slovenia won the title in 2017, then reached the quarter -finals in 2022.
Slovenia will face the German Cup Germany in reigning in the quarterfinals on Wednesday.
Dončić scored 30 points in the first half on Sunday, helping Slovenia at a 50-40 advance at the intermission. It was 9 for 13 of the land in half-5-in-5 on 2 points, 4-in-8 on 3 points-and was 8 for 9 of the fault line. No other Slovenian player had more than four points in half time.
Doncic finished 11 for 19 in the field in 33 minutes, the more 15 for 16 of the fault line.
Doncic was the top scorer of the tournament’s group phase, with an average of 32.4 points in the first five Slovenian games before the start of the direct elimination.
Luka explodes for 42 pts and Slovenia moves on 🇸🇮#Eurobasket
– Fiba Eurobasket (@eurobasket) September 7, 2025
Advances in Poland
Shooting goalkeeper Jordan Loyd scored 28 points and striker Mateusz Ponitka collected 19 points and 11 rebounds when Poland was beating Bosnia and Herzegovina 80-72 to set up a quarter-final against Turkey.
The Utah jazz center, Jusuf Nurkić, has led Bosnia and Herzegovina again with 20 points and seven rebounds.
Giannis dominates
In the last round of the round of 16, Greece – which Reigning champion eliminated Spain In the group phase – beaten Israel 84-79 to organize a match in the quarter -final against the triple champion of Lithuania.
The Milwaukee Bucks star, Giannis Antetokounmpo, achieved another dominant performance with 37 points and 10 rebounds.
The quarter -finals will take place Tuesday and Wednesday.
The final is next Sunday.
