Giannis powers Greece past Lithuania 87-76 and into EuroBasket semifinal matchup against Turkey | National Sports

Antetokounmpo sank two free throws to give Greece a 10-point lead with 19 seconds left after Lithuania had cut Greece’s 16-point fourth-quarter advantage in half. He had made two other free throws with 47 seconds on the clock.

Kostas Antetokounmpo’s four blocked shots all came in the first half. The 27-year-old center plays for Olympiakos. Vasileios Toliopoulos scored 17 points for Greece.

Greece is a two-time EuroBasket champion, having won the tournament in 1987 and 2005.

Jonas Valanciunas led Lithuania with 24 points and 15 rebounds.

Alperen Sengun’s triple-double helped unbeaten Turkey to a 91-77 win over Poland. The Houston Rockets forward had 19 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists in an entertaining performance.

With his mother in the crowd, Sengun made a one-handed pass the length of the court to Sehmus Hazer, who dunked and gave Sengun a thumbs up late in the second quarter.

Sengun found Hazer again with a spinning no-look pass in the lane in the third quarter and then treated himself to a one-handed reverse dunk with the game in hand.

Turkey pulled away to lead 46-32 at halftime after Poland’s physicality on defense and its bench presented early problems.

Poland moved within eight points with three minutes left, but Hazer sank a 3-pointer to keep Turkey in control.

Mateusz Ponitka and Jordan Loyd both scored 19 points to lead Poland.

It is a first EuroBasket quarterfinal for Georgia, which knocked out Olympic silver medalist France in the round of 16 and beat defending champion Spain in the group stage.

Germany and Slovenia have won the title once: Germany as host in 1993 and the Slovenians in 2017.

Coming off a 42-point game against Italy in the round of 16, Los Angeles Lakers star Luka Dončić is looking for fifth game of the tournament with at least 30 points scored.

Dončić and Sengun have one triple-double each and they could yet face off for the gold medal in Sunday’s final. ___