RIGA, Latvia \u2014\u00a0NBA All-Star\u00a0Alperen Sengun scored 24 points as Turkey held off Sweden to win 85-79 and reach the\u00a0EuroBasket quarterfinals\u00a0on Saturday.<\/p>\n
World Cup winner Germany\u00a0struggled early against Portugal before pulling away for an 85-58 victory.<\/p>\n
Sengun, a forward with the Houston Rockets, added 16 rebounds and six assists in a stellar performance against Sweden, which drew level at 76-76 thanks to Ludvig Hakanson’s 3-pointer with just under three minutes left.<\/p>\n
Hakanson led the Swedes with 16 points, while Panathinaikos forward Cedi Osman chipped in with 17 points for Turkey.<\/p>\n
Germany overcomes shooting struggles<\/strong><\/p>\n Portugal led 32-31 at halftime and only trailed by one point after three quarters before Germany limited them to just 7 points the rest of the way.<\/p>\n The Germans struggled to deal with Boston Celtics center Neemias Queta, who had 18 points and 11 rebounds.<\/p>\n Germany captain Dennis Schr\u00f6der, who\u00a0faced racial abuse\u00a0during a game against Lithuania a week ago, and Franz Wagner both scored 16 points despite shooting a combined 0 for 11 from 3-point range. In the first half, Germany made only 1 of 18 attempts from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n A moment’s silence was held before tipoff in memory of the victims of the\u00a0Lisbon streetcar accident\u00a0in Portugal.<\/p>\n Coming up: Nikola Jokic leads Serbia vs. Finland<\/strong><\/p>\n In Saturday’s other round-of-16 matchups, it was Lithuania vs. Latvia, and Serbia vs. Finland.<\/p>\n Turkey will play either Poland or Bosnia and Herzegovina for a spot in the semifinals, while Germany will take on either Italy or Slovenia, which boasts the in-form\u00a0Luka Don\u010di\u0107.<\/p>\n Defending champion\u00a0Spain was eliminated\u00a0Thursday in the group stage by Giannis Antetokounmpo’s Greece.<\/p>\n Olympic silver medalist France and its super-deep bench face Georgia on Sunday, with the winner of that game playing either Serbia or Finland in the semis.<\/p>\n In Sunday\u2019s other matches, it is Poland vs. Bosnia and Herzegovina; Italy vs. Slovenia, and Greece vs. Israel.<\/p>\n The quarterfinals begin next Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIGA, Latvia \u2014\u00a0NBA All-Star\u00a0Alperen Sengun scored 24 points as Turkey held off Sweden to win 85-79 and reach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-403336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-germany"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115158873849989350","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403336","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=403336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}