{"id":405617,"date":"2025-09-07T16:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/405617\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T16:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T16:05:10","slug":"georgia-stuns-france-to-reach-eurobasket-quarterfinals-poland-also-advances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/405617\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia stuns France to reach EuroBasket quarterfinals, Poland also advances"},"content":{"rendered":"

RIGA, Latvia (AP) \u2014 Georgia advanced to the quarterfinals at the EuroBasket<\/a> tournament for the first time with a dominant 80-70 win against France on Sunday.<\/p>\n

France was runner-up to Spain in the 2022 final but both teams failed to reach the quarterfinal stage this time. Georgia advanced to face Finland, which knocked out Nikola Jokic\u2019s Serbia<\/a> side on Saturday.<\/p>\n

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Georgia’s players sprinted off the bench at the end of the round-of-16 match, hugging and jumping up and down as their fans banged drums and danced in the crowd in Riga, Latvia.<\/p>\n

Olympic silver medalist France<\/a> made only six of its 36 3-pointer attempts for a paltry average of 17% while Georgia scored from over half of its 3-pointers and punished France for frequently fouling by scoring 20 of 24 free throws.<\/p>\n

Georgia led by one point at halftime and by nine early into the fourth quarter, with Barcelona forward Tornike Shengelia’s blend of athleticism and raw power pressuring France’s inexperienced defense.<\/p>\n

France’s scrappy offense failed to get Guerschon Yabusele \u2014 who scored 36 points<\/a> against Poland during the group stage \u2014 into enough open play and he was too often pushed out wide.<\/p>\n

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Zaccharie Risacher<\/a>, the No. 1 NBA draft pick<\/a> last year, found some form as France dragged itself back into the game and, with three minutes left, the score was 68-68.<\/p>\n

But France’s wastefulness from 3-pointers ultimately proved costly as Les Bleus could not get on a run.<\/p>\n

Shengelia was inspirational for Georgia with 24 points and eight rebounds, while American-born Kamar Baldwin also scored 24 for Georgia, which beat Spain<\/a> during the group stage.<\/p>\n

Point guard Sylvain Francisco top-scored with 14 points for France. Yabusele was restricted to 12 points and Risacher mustered only seven.<\/p>\n

Poland advances<\/p>\n

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Shooting guard Jordan Loyd scored 28 points and forward Mateusz Ponitka had 19 points and 11 rebounds as Poland beat Bosnia and Herzegovina 80-72 to set up a quarterfinal against Turkey.<\/p>\n

Utah Jazz center Jusuf Nurki\u0107 again led Bosnia and Herzegovina with 20 points and seven rebounds.<\/p>\n

In the remaining round-of-16 matches, Italy faced Slovenia later Sunday and Greece \u2014 which eliminated Spain<\/a> in the group stage \u2014 took on Israel.<\/p>\n

The quarterfinals will be held on Tuesday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The final is next Sunday. ___<\/p>\n

AP sports: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RIGA, Latvia (AP) \u2014 Georgia advanced to the quarterfinals at the EuroBasket tournament for the first time with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,100508,139761,1113,104032,82962,99801,133261,133805],"class_list":{"0":"post-405617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-group-stage","12":"tag-guerschon-yabusele","13":"tag-latvia","14":"tag-quarterfinal","15":"tag-quarterfinals","16":"tag-riga","17":"tag-utah-jazz","18":"tag-zaccharie-risacher"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115163871564664511","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405617","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=405617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}