Basketball European Champion: Historic Doncic continues Slovenia

_ Frederik Paulus reports from the Basketball European Champion in Berlin

Dončić sent regard and acknowledgment to the Belgians after the video game. It was a tough game they dealt with until completion, claimed the 23-year-old. In the long run, I believe, we played much better.

What created the safeguarding champ troubles was over all the weak field throw rate, which in the end must be just 42 percent. The crucial factor again: Superstar Dončić, that, according to his gala performances versus Germany and also France, likewise came to be the definitive factor against Belgium as well as laying 35 factors, five rebounds and also 5 assists. The Dallas expert is the first player to whose two successive European National championship.

In the long run, the result was clear: Slovenia dominated against the outsider Belgium with 88:72. The underdog against the champion of Team A maintained astonishingly long: Slovenia just led to three factors for the break. The third section was even totally well-balanced (19:19). It was just in the last quarter of Slovenia of his preferred role, yet then finally measured up to it (25:12) and ultimately conveniently retreated to 16 points.