93-85: Huertel ends Italian dream in extra time

The French basketball team ended this Wednesday with a militant dream Italy Overtime (93-85), point guard Thomas Hertel He shone in his own light to propel his side to the semi-finals of the European Championship against the winner of Slovenia vs Poland.

Partial 16-8 in overtime. real madrid (20 points) With 5.7 seconds left in the basket, he blamed the Transalpine team, who fell headlong in front of Rudy’s French wall. Gobert (19 points and 14 rebounds).

After eliminating omnipotence Serbian in round 16, Italy Say goodbye to Eurobasket with your head held high.

Advantages obtained by France The first half (38-31) is explained by successes from the perimeter. In his first 20 minutes, he scored his 27 points in a triple. To date, the French team has been one of the teams with the fewest points in the championship with him 6.75 meters from his line (just over 22 points per game).

Appearance of the New York Knicks Evan Fournier He shined in the first quarter, scoring 9 of his team’s 11 points in the first quarter in a win over France (11-3, 5 minutes).

Focus on suppressing hierarchy Gobert Gianmarco’s disciples in painting Potzeco They struggled to defend their boundaries. And Luwau Cabarota participated in the triple festival.

Still, the Italian endured the pecking of his rival. Faced with the difficulty of painting a great painting, TransAlpine his team responded with the same coin.Luigi hang out with me (12 pt), frame Spiss (21) and Simon Fontecchio (21) prevented the French from gaining a greater advantage in act 1 (27-20).

In the second round, the defense team won with a rattling partial (11-11).a France He was penalized for 11 turnovers in the first 20 minutes, but the Italian attack also failed to find a free-kick from their opponents. Fontecchio However, they finished the first half with 11 points.

After the break, Italy continued to accordion on the scoreboard. France took advantage of his physical superiority in the area of Gobert world Destroyedthe latter pulls the wrist from the perimeter (43-33, min.23).

But those students Pozzecco Resist, charge an aggressive rebound, and wait for the moment with a quick transition from. Meri world Manionand a triple of hang out with me world SpissAnd it was that Italy. Gobertchained a 3-17 run to give them a 6-point lead before the final quarter (56-62).

The team trained by Vincent reacted collet When Goberttaking command in the area, Hertel Emerging from the outside.giant of Minnesota The Timberwolves closed in on the team at Mate (68-70) with 3 minutes and 14 seconds remaining.

But microwaves from Italy –Fontecchio world Spice– They got the ground back off the perimeter in front (68-75 with 2:16 remaining). Gobert world Fournier They left everything open with a minute left (75-77).

Fontecchio He missed two free throws with 16 seconds remaining. With the following possession, Hertel Tie the game with 5.7 seconds left (77-77).italian forward Utah The Jazz missed the final possession and the game went into overtime.

In extra time, the Olympic runner-up found the best version of Huertel with 6 goals and 2 assists. Gobert To end the Italian dream.

data sheet

France, 93 – Italy, 85

93 – France (27+11+18+21+16): Albichy (-), Fournier (17), Tarpy (8), Yabusele (15), Gaubert (19) -Starting Five- Okobo (-), M ‘Bayet (-), Hertel (20), Luwau Caballo (13), Poirier (-), Faure (1)
85 – Italy (20+11+31+15+8): Spissu (21), Tonut (4), Fontecchio (21), Polonara (9), Melli (10) -starting Five-, Mannion (4), Biligha (-), Ricci (4), Pjaola (-), Datome (12).
Referees: Ademir Zlapovic (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Martins Kozlovskis (Latvia), Alexander Glisic (Serbia) Eliminated: Fournier (min.43) and Mellli (min.44).
Incident: A Eurobasket quarter-final match at the Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin in front of 6,324 spectators.