Basket: Italy – Bosnia and Herzegovina, the chronicle of the match · Eurobasket 2025
European Basketball 2025: Italy-Bosnia and Herzegovina 96-79 (22-21, 44-40, 72-61)
No news on both fronts on the ball two. Pozzecco confirms the five of the first two games, therefore Alessandro Pajola e Matteo Spanish guards, Simone Fontecchio by three and the long pair composed of Nicolò Melli e Momo diouf. For the Bosnian team, around Jusuf Nurkic they gravitate as usual LOVE ALIBEGOVIC, Edin Atic, Amar Gegic e Adin sparrow.
The hint of a record evening, by Fontecchio, is felt immediately: 12 of Italy’s 22 points in the first quarter are his, including two triples in the partial of 10-0 that allows the blues to remedy an undertone beginning. The match starts in fact with a 0/4 on the shot, unlocked by fadeaway of the Miami Heat and Thompson wing, immediately thrown into the fray instead of Spanish. On the other hand, Nurkic finds the first points of the match from Sotto and collects Fales: a problem that for Pozzecco will materialize one minute from the siren, when he will call back on the bench, both Diouf and Melli. Small quintet, Azzurri who from +6 mark only one free with Danilo Gallinari And they end up staying on one point. The first fraction ends on 22-21.
John Robersonwho already in the first quarter had brought Bosnia and Herzegovina closer to the -2, finds the first triple for his after the basket of the momentary 24-21 Giampauric Ricci: it is equality with Italy that it goes of small ball Extreme, with the two Play Spissu and Thompson to support Ricci, Fontecchio and the MVP of Italia-Georgia, Saliou Niang. A choice that has its pros and its cons. For the latter, the offensive rebounds granted to the Bosniaci (7 in the fourth) jump to the eye more than the difficulties in containing Nurkic, but on the other hand Italy gains something in the offensive phase. Niang tries to get to the iron, Thompson succeeds and in addition Fontecchio goes to 21 points. A technician to the head of the two benches does not change much in the score, because the ending is all a trip to the bezel by both sides: Nurkic and Kamenjas make 2/4, Niang and Fontecchio 4/5. A passenger forward for Italy and at the interval the Azzurri-with 50% from the field and from three to half the race-guide 44-40.
Upon returning to the field, two data above all: Bosnia and Herzegovina lights up from the arch and the second technician for Italy. Roberson scored the free after making the arch, as the Alibegovic basket arrives from the arch. It is a partial that overturns the result, 49-46 for the Bosniaci. Fontecchio must recover the attack on the shoulders, but defensively Italy is unable to close on Alibegovic from outside, nor on Kamenjas from below. On the other hand, he uses the absence of Nurkic (three minutes on the pitch, then on the bench with three fouls) and the bonus: Melli finds the via del Canestro, Ricci, Thompson and Spissu unlock from three points and the latter is also perfect in the bezel, completing a game of four points. He also commits an anti-sports foul, but still remedies by hitting from outside for the 72-61 with which you enter the fourth final.
Nurkic returns to the white jersey quintet and after Thompson’s florater for +13, the long who recently moved to the Utah Jazz hits with a triple front. It will be a quarter as a driver, his, because in this fraction he creates 12 points with 4/6 at the shot, but in the partial 8-0 that reports the bosniaci in contact, Lazic and Gegic are also determined. Difficult moment for Italy and it is here that Fontecchio updates his best performance in blue. In addition, Thompson first forces Nurkic to the fourth foul, then he uses a flaw in the Bosnian defense: basket, free extra and new +8. Fontecchio in the lunette restores the double figure of advantage, Pajola joins the party from the arch and two minutes from the end, the scale returns to hang clearly from the side of Italy, which touches 90.
The Azzurri will only put two baskets, but they will be two pieces of history for Italian basketball: two Triples in Fontecchio, to climb 39 points and update the name to the best scratch box in single game for Italy at Eurobasket, after 14 years. On the other hand, Nurkic does (the only basket of this phase) and dysfà (two lost balls), but the credits are already scrolling: It is an encore for Italy in Limassol, it is record for Fontecchio. But above all, they are two victories in three games, waiting for Spain.
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