{"id":383399,"date":"2025-08-29T21:03:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T21:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/383399\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T21:03:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T21:03:10","slug":"eurobasket-2025-lauri-markkanens-43-points-lead-finland-to-a-109-79-rout-of-great-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/383399\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroBasket 2025: Lauri Markkanen\u2019s 43 points lead Finland to a 109-79 rout of Great Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lauri Markkanen drops a game-high 43 points to lead Finland over Great Britain on Friday.<\/p>\n

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TAMPERE, Finland (AP) \u2014<\/strong> Utah Jazz forward Lauri Markkanen scored 29 of his 43 points in the first half in a dazzling performance that highlighted Finland\u2019s 109-79 rout of Great Britain at\u00a0EuroBasket<\/a>\u00a0on Friday.<\/p>\n

Markkanen played just 23 minutes while matching his EuroBasket high for points, set in 2022 against Croatia. He was four points off the all-time tournament record of 47 points by Slovenia\u2019s Luka Doncic against France in 2022.<\/p>\n

Finland is tied at 2-0 with Germany and Lithuania in Group B, which is being played in Tampere, Finland. Great Britain dropped to 0-2.<\/p>\n

Markkanen, who scored 28 points in a 93-90 win over Sweden on Wednesday, shot 9 of 15 from the field in his 14 first-half minutes. He made five 3s in the first half and finished with seven,\u00a0his last one giving Finland an 84-56 lead<\/a>\u00a0early in the fourth quarter. He was on the bench for the last 7 1\/2 minutes.<\/p>\n

Markkanen overshadowed teammate Sasu Salin, who shot 7 of 9 on 3s for all 21 of his points. Olivier Nkamhoua added 13 for Finland. Great Britain got 13 points from Luke Nelson.<\/p>\n

Schr\u00f6der leads Germany past Sweden<\/p>\n

Sacramento Kings guard Dennis Schr\u00f6der scored a game-high 23 points and made seven assists to lead world champion Germany to a 105-83 win over Sweden.<\/p>\n

Schr\u00f6der shot 7 for 12 from the field, making three 3-pointers. Orlando Magic forward Franz Wagner added 21 points as Germany went 2-0 in Group B after also beating Montenegro in its opening game.<\/p>\n

Melwin Pantzar led Sweden with 18 points, with Pelle Larsson of the Miami Heat sidelined by an undisclosed illness.<\/p>\n

Germany shot 60% for the game. Daniel Theis made a quick three buckets to help build an 8-0 lead and the world champion never looked back.<\/p>\n

Germany is among the title contenders after it upset the United States en route to\u00a0winning the 2023 Basketball World Cup<\/a>, beating Serbia in the final.<\/p>\n

Valan\u010di\u016bnas leads pass-happy Lithuania<\/p>\n

Denver Nuggets center Jonas Valan\u010di\u016bnas scored 19 points on eight-of-nine shooting to lead Lithuania to a 94-76 win over Montenegro on a record-making night for the winner.<\/p>\n

Lithuania, 2-0 in Group B, made a EuroBasket record 35 assists, according to the organizers.<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old Valan\u010di\u016bnas also reached the milestone of 500 points in Eurobaskets, playing in his sixth edition of the tournament.<\/p>\n

Sengun comes close to triple-double<\/p>\n

Houston Rockets center Alperen Sengun came close to a triple-double as he helped Turkey beat the Czech Republic 92-78.<\/p>\n

Sengun scored 23 points from eight-of-nine shooting, pulled in 12 rebounds, and made nine assists as Turkey went to 2-0 in Group A, which is being played in Riga, Latvia.<\/p>\n

Turkey got 21 more points from Cedi Osman and as a team dominated in the points-in-the-paint, 50-26.<\/p>\n

Czech center Martin Peterka stepped outside and hit five 3-pointers, scoring 23 in a losing effort.<\/p>\n

The Czechs, 0-2, hit five early 3-pointers to open a six-point lead after the first quarter. But Turkey responded with a 14-0 run and never fell behind again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lauri Markkanen drops a game-high 43 points to lead Finland over Great Britain on Friday. \u2022\u00a0EuroBasket 2025: Official…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,133110,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-383399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-eurobasket-day-3-recap","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115114082813889855","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}