Basketball
The fourth quarter has been decided. Ukraine national team lost to Poland at EuroBasket.
In the 1/8 final of the EuroBasket, the Ukrainian team had perhaps the most suitable opponent possible. Ainars Bagatskis, who is also well known to the team: In a training tournament held in Istanbul in August, the Blue-Yellows defeated the Poles with 28 points. True, he missed AJ Slaughter, the defender of “Gran Canaria”, one of the leaders of the rival team in the tournament in Turkey. Alexey Len, who had just arrived on the team’s court the day before, did not play in that game.
Noting that the Poles are playing the right basketball, Ainars Bagatskis also mentioned that Poland should not be underestimated the previous day. “I told the team that Poland is an experienced, big and smart team. They don’t play with surprises, they play true, sometimes hard basketball. They often play at the expense of the opponent’s gifts and take well what is given to them. In a match with them, the important thing is discipline, consistency and aggression. This opponent is physical Ainars also noted that Mateusz Ponitka is the clear leader of the opponent, but Sloter, Balcerovski and Sokolovski should also be looked at.
The fight started quite tensely. Mikhailyuk and Len failed to score from behind the arc, Svyat also made a loss after interception and the Poles took a 5:0 lead. But two dunks from Len and Mikhailyuk dampened the opponent’s fire a little. Poland, however, acted quite confidently in the offensive. Slaughter caught the shot, hitting the back of the bow a few times – and of course, we had to be in the catch role, which didn’t add confidence. But we didn’t let the opponent go and we left the first timeout at minus 3 – 21:24.
The picture on the site did not change in the second quarter. We were approaching the opponent, but due to a technical malfunction, we allowed the Red-Whites to go into mini-timeouts again. Slaughter scored more goals than usual in the tournament in the middle of the second ten minutes – 13 points. Bobrov showed he’s great on our team: he took two long-range shots and landed a brilliant block hit. With 3:44 remaining in the quarter, we took a 38:37 lead for the first time after two consecutive narrow passages completed by Bliznyuk and Bobrov. Then, catching the shot, Bobrov added three from the back of the bow. Svyat went into the corridor and fell into Bliznyuk – three more, and the gap was already from Ukraine.
Unfortunately, in the end, after unnecessary losses, the “blue-yellows” allowed the opponents to enter a shooting range from behind the arc – 45:42. In general, the first half of the wards of Ainars Bagatskis can be included in the asset.
In the third quarter, the Poles were already catching up. They also did not allow our team to leave more than four points. As a leader, Mikhailyuk began to take over the game more – and his passes were both timely and effective. Now, if the arc flew to the Holy even from behind. However, the Poles escaped and Bagatskis had to take a time-out with a score of 59:59.
Pustovoy scored five consecutive points at the end of the quarter, but the Poles, who had three free throws on the final offense, advanced to the final section with a two-point advantage.
The nervous game started in the fourth quarter. Tkachenko fired two or three shots for us and then added a spectacular block shot. But we must give them credit. The Poles directed the snipers to open shots from the back of the bow. As a result, they managed to leave with 9 points. Blue-Yellows for 1.32 – 3 – reduced to 84:87. But there were not enough Ukrainians for more. 86:94 – humiliating defeat. Unfortunately, as Bagatskis said before the game, the Poles took what we gave.
European Basketball Championship. 1/8 finals
Ukraine Poland – 86:91.
Ukraine: Lukashov (2+6 assists), Mikhailyuk (12+8 rebounds), Bliznyuk (7), Gerun (3), Sloth (9+8 rebounds), Bobrov (15), Pustovoy (13), Sanon (13+8 assists) ) )) ), Zotov, Skapintsev, Sidorov (2), Tkachenko (10).
Poland: Zhishkovsky, Balcerovski (14), Sokolowski (13), Chel (4), Slaughter (24 + 5 rebounds), Ponitka (22 + 9 rebounds + 6 assists), Kolenda, Dzeiva (5 + 7 rebounds), Oleznicek, Michalak (4), Garbach (6), Şenk (2).
UKRAINE POLAND. TEXT BROADCAST OF THE MATCH
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Head coach of “Kharkov Falcons” Valery Plekhanov He summarized the team’s 2025 results and talked about the preparations for the continuation of the season:
“Summing up the results of the calendar year, I want to congratulate all our fans on the upcoming New Year and Merry Christmas, wish our favorite team peace and good victories! “Kharkov Falcons” are the first players of this Super League season, so second place at the moment is a good result.
There are a few points we would like to emphasize separately. First of all, seven players from last season’s active squad won the Premier League together, but five of them never played in the Super League. Therefore, the experience they gained in the first half of this season is almost priceless. Secondly, Kharkiv Falcons are one of the two champion teams that did not play a single match at home. It’s very difficult when you’re not playing for your fans, you’re training in one gym, and you’re playing in a different gym every time, even on home tours. In these conditions, 4 defeats in 13 matches is a good result.
One of the most negative moments of this year was not being able to participate in the last four of the Ukrainian Cup. Unfortunately, we were a little unlucky in the draw. After an emotionally difficult and physically exhausting match with Krivbass, we did not have enough strength for the next match against Kiev-Basket in the quarter-finals. Unfortunately, our performances in the cup are over, but now we will be able to focus all our efforts on the championship.
Our main problem now is injuries. We have five injured players, three of whom have serious injuries that require a long recovery period. We’re about to get off to a very tough start to the new calendar season because the Falcons will be playing basketball six weekends in a row, which means six road trips with no rest time. If we could count on all twelve players in the squad at the beginning of the season, there will no longer be such a rotation. Therefore, all the responsibility and burden will fall on the players in the rankings. I hope they get over their injuries in the new year, recover from their injuries as soon as possible, return to work and help their beloved club properly represent Kharkiv in the Super League.
Despite the holidays, we have training scheduled almost seven days a week. “I really hope that by January 10 we will be a combat-ready team that can solve serious problems.”
Source: Sport UA
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On December 23, as part of the 1/8 final of the Romanian Cup, the Ukrainian derby was played between Bucharest and Dinamo. Vyacheslav Bobrova and “Fast” Alexandra Lipovoy.
Dinamo won the match 89:79, and the fate of the ticket to the next round was decided in overtime, as Rapid won the first match – 83:73.
The home players acted more accurately in extra time and won with a total score of 101:85 and advanced to the quarter-finals.
Vyacheslav Bobrov made a double-double in 33 minutes on the field, scoring 10 points (4/7 two-pointers, 0/1 three-pointers, 2/2 free throws), collecting 10 rebounds, 1 block, 5 turnovers and 2 fouls.
Alexander Lipovoy played 38 minutes, scored 16 points (1/2 two-pointers, 4/7 three-pointers, 2/2 free throws), collected 3 rebounds, made 2 assists, 1 steal, 1 turnover and 4 fouls.
Romanian Cup. 1/8 final. 2nd match, 23 December
Dinamo Bucharest – Rapid Bucharest – 101:85 Overtime (17:22, 28:12, 24:19, 20:26, 12:6)
Match record:
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Basketball
Mikhailyuk repeated his personal best from the NBA regular season in the match against Memphis
Ukrainian basketball player who plays for Utah Jazz Svyatoslav Mikhayyuk He repeated his personal best in starts in the NBA regular season.
This happened 128:137 in the game between the Utah Jazz and the Memphis Grizzlies on the night of December 23-24.
In this match, Mikhailyuk stayed on the field for 22 minutes and during this time he recorded 9 points (4/4 free throws, 1/4 two-point, 1/5 three-pointers), 4 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 steals, 1 turnover and 1 foul.
This match was Mikhailyuk’s 27th match as a starter this season. So, at the end of December, Svyatoslav repeated his career record in terms of starts, missing only one game against Dallas.
Previously, Mikhailiuk managed to play as a starter in many matches only in the 2019/20 season as part of the Detroit Pistons.
The Jazz are in 12th place in the NBA Western Conference rankings with 10 wins in 29 games. Utah will play its next game against Detroit on Saturday, December 27 at 04:30 Kyiv time.
Source: Sport UA
Ralph Bean is a writer for Sportish. Ralph has written about sports news for the last two years, and is currently an author on the site. He enjoys writing about sports, and hopes to cover more stories in the future.
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