The last ticket to the Olympics is for the impressively dominant Czech national team

After sensationally and dramatically beating the Canadian hosts in the semi-finals, the Czech basketball players crossed paths with another European team, Greece, like a roller in the final.

Czech basketball players have achieved more than a guaranteed victory 97:72 (32:22, 18:21, 31:11, 16:18).

Ronen Ginzburg’s students won the first quarter with a double-digit advantage and finally secured a victory in the third quarter, scoring 20 more points than their rivals.

Patrick Auda scored 20 points for the Czechs, Jan Vesely – 16 (9 reb.), Jaromir Bohachik – 15, Ondrej Balvin – 14, Tomas Satoransky – 12 points.

Overall, Satoransky was voted the most useful player on the Canadian Olympic team.

The Chicago Bulls defender scored an average of 16 points per game in Canada, recovered after 5.5 rebounds and gave 5.5 assists.

“It doesn’t matter how much I played individually. Yes, it was great, but we just came here for an Olympic ticket, and one of my dreams and that of the team came true, ”said the basketball player.

In the fight under the board, the Czechs won 35-23, throwing three points. precision (11/25), outperformed their competitors 127-65 in terms of overall efficiency.

Georgios Papagiannis scored 14 points, Giannoulis Larentzakis and Konstantinas Mitoglou 12 points each.

Greek coach Rick Pitino announced immediately after the game that he would be leaving the team as a strategist, noting that the future of basketball in the country is bright and that there are many great coaches in Greece who can get the job done.

It has been a fabulous run coaching the Greece players. They have a great passion and I will always support them from afar. The principles and style have been learned and the future is bright!

– Rick Pitino (@RealPitino) July 5, 2021

We remind you that the hosts were unable to win any of the four Olympic qualifiers. If the Czech Republic triumphed in Canada, Slovenia won the national team in Lithuania, Germany won Croatia and Italy was sensationally eliminated by Italy in Belgrade.

When the Czechs got a ticket to the Olympics, all the groups in the Olympic tournament were clear.

Group A.

All men’s Olympic groups:

It should be noted that the Olympic basketball tournament system has been modified compared to previous years. If previously teams were divided into six groups of two, at the Tokyo Olympics, teams are divided into four groups of three.

From each group, the top two teams will advance to the playoffs – the quarterfinals, and two of the top three teams ranked third in the group will also advance to this stage.

From that moment on, the competition will take place in the usual “one minus” system. The teams that win the quarterfinals will advance to the semifinals, the semifinals to the final, and the team that wins the finals will win gold medals.

Compared to previous Olympic tournaments, the champion team will have to play 6 games instead of 8 (3 in the group and 3 in the playoffs). So far, only the Olympic tournament teams have played 5 matches.

The Tokyo Olympics will begin on July 23. and will last until August 8.

Interestingly, the basketball tournament match for the Olympic bronze will take place after the grand final. The third place team will compete on August 7 at 1 pm and the championship title on August 7 at 4 pm 30 minutes. Lithuanian time.

The Lithuanian team, which lost to Slovenia in the final 85:96 of the Kaunas tournament, did not enter the Olympics for the first time since the country’s restoration of independence. Immediately after this fiasco, Darius Maskoliūnas resigned as head coach of the national team.