{"id":186844,"date":"2025-09-07T16:37:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T14:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=186844"},"modified":"2025-09-07T16:37:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T14:37:40","slug":"sensation-at-eurobasket-a-serb-continues-to-fight-for-a-medal-dzikics-georgia-shocks-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/sensation-at-eurobasket-a-serb-continues-to-fight-for-a-medal-dzikics-georgia-shocks-france\/","title":{"rendered":"SENSATION AT EUROBASKET: A Serb Continues to Fight for a Medal, D\u017eiki\u0107&#8217;s Georgia Shocks France!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>The Georgian national basketball team pulled off another surprise at Eurobasket, defeating France 80-70 in the round of 16.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After Finland shocked Serbia on Saturday night, Aleksandar D\u017eiki\u0107&#8217;s team created another sensation in Riga, setting up a quarter-final match against the Scandinavian team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For most of the game, Georgia held the lead against the two-time Olympic champion, thanks to amazing performances by Kamar Baldwin and Tornike Shengelia. The duo then broke the &#8220;Tricolores&#8221; in a tight finish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the score at 68-68, Shengelia hit a three-pointer, and then Baldwin made three free throws after drawing a shooting foul in the last second of the shot clock. The pair then sealed the victory from the free-throw line against Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Fauthoux&#8217;s squad, securing a historic spot in the quarter-finals!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More soon\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong>Sportal <strong>Photo:<\/strong> FIBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Georgian national basketball team pulled off another surprise at Eurobasket, defeating France 80-70 in the round of 16. After Finland shocked Serbia on Saturday night, Aleksandar D\u017eiki\u0107&#8217;s team created another sensation in Riga, setting up a quarter-final match against the Scandinavian team. For most of the game, Georgia held the lead against the two-time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":100000194452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8402,1129,2863,1402,38],"class_list":["post-186844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-aleksandar-dzikic","tag-basketball","tag-eurobasket","tag-georgia","tag-serbia","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186849,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186844\/revisions\/186849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}