Slovenian basketball players have already been eliminated in the quarterfinals of the 2022 European Championship in basketball – Sportnet.sk

BERLIN. There are no NBA players among them, but there are people who wanted to do something big despite the strong competition. They succeeded. The Polish basketball players gave the best performance in the last half century at the EC in basketball. They managed to shock the entire basketball world with a win over the defending champion and hot favorite in the tournament, Slovenia. Before the start of the tournament, the Poles raised a huge question mark as to whether they would even get out of the group. They managed to beat the Czech Republic in the first match and added important wins over the Netherlands and Israel. “We don’t have NBA players, but we have great leaders. The team appeared to be a mystery, just before the championship I mentioned that the results with the Polish team had not been so bad for years,” Polish sports editor Lukasz Ceglinski wrote for Sport.pl. In the quarter-finals, Poland dominated the first half of the match, when at the end of the second a 23-point lead in the fourth quarter and went into the halftime break with 19 points on top. Subsequently, the key point line for the Slovenians was 24:6 in the third quarter, when they returned to the match. They even led in the last quarter, but they could not increase and maintain their lead. “They played a hell of a good game, especially in the first half. They came out, fought and scored. Our guys also fought in the second half, we left everything we had on the board. But we lost the match in the first half,” said after the match at the press conference the coach of Slovenia, Alexander Sekulić, with whom Slovenia agreed to extend cooperation on Thursday morning. Despite the dramatic ending, Poland managed to win 90:87 and advance to the top four, where will play against France in the fight for the final. “It’s unbelievable. We don’t believe it. The players have ‘balls’ like melons and hearts like the moon,” said the enthusiastic coach of Poles Igor Miličič after the match.VIDEO: The joy of Polish basketball players after advancing to the semi-finals. They don’t need NBA quality. Slovenia came to the championship as a favorite to win the gold medal. Apart from them, the favorites were also the Serbs and the Greeks, who have also already said goodbye to the tournament.