EuroBasket 2023: Jokic & Lithuania Eliminated – Results & Highlights

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The dramatic conclusion of the match Serbia – Finland

The Serbian basketball players in Riga against Finland did not help even 33 points of star beer Nikola Jokic. 29 points Lauri Markkanen participated in the victory of the Finnish team.

An important role was played by Elias Valtonen, who scored 10 points in the final four minutes. He just gave only three.

“They played a great match. We weren’t ready for them from the beginning. I don’t, too,” said Jokic, whose team lost 1:11.

The Finns succeeded after a series of eight defeats with the Serbian team thanks to 20 offensive rebounds. “This is absolutely unacceptable,” he commented on this statistics of Denver pivot.

“We knew how they were playing, we were well prepared, we saw a video, but they still managed to play us,” said the three -time NBA player.

The Finns will repeat the quarterfinal participation from the last championship in 2022, when they achieved the seventh place of the greatest success since 1967.

Their other rival will be France or Georgia. The Serbs finished in the eight -final round as well as at the previous European Championship.

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Conclusion of the match Turkey – Sweden

The Swedish team surprised the favorite Turks with a bold and fast game, thanks to which he led 42:37 at half -time.

In the third quarter, however, the Turkish team switched to higher speed AI thanks to the line 14 points turned the development of the match. On the contrary, the Swedes managed to score only 13 points in the third part.

But the Scandinavians did not give up and approximately six minutes before the end they reached their opponent. However, the Turks confirmed the role of the favorite and managed the tense conclusion of the match thanks to 24 points and 16 rebounds Alperen Sengün of Houston. The best Swedish scorer was with 16 points Ludvig Hakanson.

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Threes of Germany from the last quarter

Even in the second eight -final round, the course was not only one actor. Although the Germans were a favorite, they could not burst and chase a significant lead on their opponents. Both teams dragged on the lead and after twenty minutes they even led by the Portuguese 32:31.

In the third quarter, the Germans also got into the lead thanks to the losses of the Portuguese, which increased compared to the previous parts. But it was a leading 52:51.

Both teams went to the last quarter of the match almost in the same condition. In this, the favorites showed that they had more experience with difficult matches, kept their heads cool and began to bounce their opponents.

In the construction of the final lead, they also helped them to hit the missiles for three points that had not been very good until then. Germany eventually defeated Portugal with a big difference of 85:58.

“It wasn’t easy. Portugal made us very difficult for us. If you don’t hit, it gets into your head,” said German team coach Alan Ibrahimagic.

After 16 points, Franz Wagner and Dennis Schröder gave traditional drivers. The Portuguese did not help double doubles Queta, who scored 18 points and 11 rebounds.

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Conclusion of Lithuania – Latvia

Lithuania has already reached a ten -point lead during the first quarter.

In the second quarter, Latvians pushed and pulled down, but the conclusion was again Lithuania, so after twenty minutes the difference was still ten points when the home team lost 37:47.

Even in the second half of the match continued balanced basketball. Whenever Latvians managed to withdraw the lead of Lithuania, then came the point cord of the leader and after three quarters of Lithuania increased its lead to 12 points.

The final quarter has already been much influenced by the high intensity of the match. Fatigue was apparent on both sides. The Lithuanians managed the end tactically very well. They didn’t push anywhere, but when they were needed, they scored.

The Latvians wringed themselves, put the most points in one quarter for the whole match, but on the lead, but the lead that the Lithuanians held from the first part of the match was not enough.

The great performance of Kristaps Porzingis, who scored 34 points and 19 rebounds, did not help. Lithuania led to the first quarterfinals at the European Championship after ten years Arnas Velička 21 points and 12 assists.

Results of the eight -final round of the Basketball Championship:

Turkey –⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Sweden 85:79 (20:23, 37:42, 63:55), Germany –⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Portugal 85:58 (17:12, 31:32, 52:51), Lithuania –⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Latvia 88:79 (28:18, 47:37, 66:54), Serbia –⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Finland 86:92 (24:28, 48:44, 66:68).

Here’s a breakdown of the provided HTML code, focusing on the video and surrounding elements:

Overall Structure

The code snippet represents a section on a webpage, likely related to a video or news article about basketball. It’s structured using semantic HTML tags and CSS classes (e.g., videopreview, caption fz-m). The content focuses on a German basketball game and then presents related video content.

Key Elements and Meaning

  1. videopreview Div: This is the main container for the video preview. It uses the sm-no-gutters class, which is highly likely part of a CSS framework (like Bootstrap) to remove horizontal padding (gutters) on small screens.
  1. videoimage w-100 Button:: contains an button element that upon clicking, would play the video

image Div inside Button: Contains the actual image, which is a placeholder with a data-src attribute. This indicates the image is loaded lazily (using JavaScript) to optimize page load times. The data-src will be used to fetch the actual image when the video is to be played

videoimageExpired w-100: This div’s contents will be displayed if the video has expired.

image div inside videoimageExpired: contains the same lazy-loaded placeholder image.

videoexpiredPlaceholder: This div contains a few elements:

video__expiredPlaceholderIcon icon icon--video-expiration: An SVG icon indicating the video has expired.

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: A message explaining why the video cannot be played.

  1. figcaption: This element acts as the caption for the video, containing:

The title of the video “Threes of Germany from the last quarter”.

It uses CSS classes fz-m and mt-12 mt-md-16 to control the font size and margin to align with the image.

  1. Article Text Following the initial video preview and the caption is the descriptive textual contect describing the basketball game.
  1. videogallery: This likely represents a gallery of related videos. It uses a data-ctcomp and data-ctcomp-data attributes that indicate that it is a custom component loaded. The data-ctcomp-data likely contains the data needed to populate the video gallery.

Inside the videogallery is an array of items. Each item likely represents a video with the video’s detailed data.

title: The title of the video.

duration: The length of the video.

video: Contains the video’s meta-data.

previewImageUrl: The URL of the video’s preview (thumbnail) image. Also base64 dummy placeholder.

data: This is a nested object containing the video’s technical details.

source: The source (where the video is hosted).

playlist: Holds the info of the video, including ID, title, quality, DRM, duration etc.

settings: Configuration settings for the video player.

expiration: The end date, after which the video is not available.

Vital Features and Technologies

Lazy Loading: The use of data-src on the images is a key performance optimization technique. The browser won’t load the full-resolution images until thay are likely to be on screen i.e. the user has scrolled down.

Responsive Design: Classes like w-100 help with responsiveness, ensuring the image/video takes up 100% of its container’s width. The use of the mt-12 mt-md-16 suggests different margins for different screen sizes.

CSS Framework (Likely): The presence of classes like sm-no-gutters, fz-m, and col-sm-10 suggests use of a CSS framework.

Nielsen and Ad Settings: The settings object includes configurations for Nielsen (for audience measurement) and ad integrations (AdOcean).

API Integration: The settings object also reveals URLs for different API endpoints as well like the playlist and live streaming.

Custom Component based on data-ctcomp and data-ctcomp-data. This setup enables dynamic content loading.

In Summary

This HTML code describes a content section designed for displaying a preview of a basketball game,including a video “Threes of Germany from the last quarter”,a descriptive text,and a selection of related videos in a gallery format. The developers have implemented best practices for web performance (lazy loading), and used a CSS framework to ensure a responsive design. It leverages features like custom components to display rich media content retrieved from the website’s API. If the video has expired or cannot be played, a customized message will be displayed rather.

Aiko Tanaka

Aiko Tanaka is a combat sports journalist and general sports reporter at Archysport. A former competitive judoka who represented Japan at the Asian Games, Aiko brings firsthand athletic experience to her coverage of judo, martial arts, and Olympic sports. Beyond combat sports, Aiko covers breaking sports news, major international events, and the stories that cut across disciplines — from doping scandals to governance issues to the business side of global sport. She is passionate about elevating the profile of underrepresented sports and athletes.

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