Italy - 81
Russia - 82
(Boxscores)
Game recap: Alicante, 15 September 2007 - The Italian finished the European
Championship whit a positive performance; even if they lost the 5-6 place Final
only for 1 point the showed the world what they could be in a near future.
It was
a thriller conclusion in the game, and Belinelli missed the winning shot. Anyway
he made a great game finishing with 23 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists. Also
Bargnani had a fantatsic game as he finished with 22 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists.
Watch out for him in the next Nba Season.
THE GAME It was a balanced game and in all the first quarter the two team
put up big run and the first quarter the game was almost tied; The Italian was down
only by 2 points, and the Russian had one hot Holden: he hit almost his shoot he
attempted in the first as he was votated mvp of the game.
In the
Second Mancinelli and Di Bella helped the Italian Team to stay in contact and they
go to the loockeroom only down by 2.
The third
and the last quarter was almost the same; the Russian was leaded by Holden,
Monia and Kirilenko as the Italian was leaded by Bargnani, Belinelli and Mancinelli.
With 24 seconds to go the Italian was down by 1 and Di bella hit the three. But then
Khryapa made the shoot and the foul and he hit the freethrow
CONCLUSION Italy arrived 6th, Russia 5th, France 4th, Greece 3th, Lithuania
2nd and Spain 1st.
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