Key Storylines<\/p>\n
Lithuania set tournament record for most assists in a single game (41) while scoring 137 points;<\/p>\n
Italy handle defending champs Germany; <\/p>\n
Hosts Serbia, France, Slovenia, Spain cruise to easy win<\/p>\n
Top Performers <\/p>\n
Slovenia didn’t waste any time in their opening game with a dominant 105-52<\/a> triumph over Belgium. Ian Lazarevski<\/a> scored 18 points as he made 7 of 9 shots as well as 2 of 3 free throws to go with 6 rebounds, 5 assists, 3 steals and 1 block. All that gave the forward an efficiency of 30 off the Slovenian bench. <\/p>\n A big performance by Aldin Turkoglu<\/a> was needed for T\u00fcrkiye in their Group B opener against Austria with the favorites up by just two points late in the third quarter. But Turkoglu ended up with 18 points on perfect 8 of 8 shooting from the field while also gathering 11 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal and 1 block for an efficiency of 29 in a 92-67<\/a> victory. <\/p>\n Spain had little trouble in defeating Latvia 103-73<\/a> in Group D and one of the reasons was Diego Niebla<\/a>. The power forward poured in 22 points and also picked up 9 rebounds and 2 steals in producing an efficiency of 27. <\/p>\n Lithuania put together a historic 137-62<\/a> win over North Macedonia with a record 41 assists while nine players scored in double figures. One of them was Ignas Urbonas<\/a>, who collected 16 points, 2 rebounds, 7 assists (with 0 turnovers) and 4 steals. That resulted in an efficiency of 25. <\/p>\n France also rolled to an easy victory in their opener, beating Sweden 94-43<\/a> in Group B. Adam Atamna needed only 15 minutes to tally 18 points – with 3 three-pointers – 3 rebounds, 1 assist and 5 steals to register an efficiency of 23. <\/p>\n Results of the Day Group A<\/p>\n Italy 85-71<\/a> Germany Group B<\/p>\n Sweden 43-94<\/a> France Group C<\/p>\n Lithuania 137-62<\/a> North Macedonia Group D<\/p>\n Belgium 52-105<\/a> Slovenia FIBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BELGRADE (Serbia) – The exciting summer of action continued with opening day of the FIBA U18 EuroBasket 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-24514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24514\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIsrael 80-67<\/a> Bulgaria <\/p>\n
\nT\u00fcrkiye 92-67<\/a> Austria<\/p>\n
\nGreece 63-96<\/a> Serbia<\/p>\n
\nSpain 103-73<\/a> Latvia<\/p>\n