Blue-yellows lost chances to get to Paris
Ukrainian national basketball team lost Croatia in the semi-final match of the Olympic pre-qualification and lost all chances to get to the Olympic Games-2024.
The Croatians almost immediately established a lead of 7-8 points and kept it plus or minus the entire first half of the game. The teams went to the big break with a score of 42:36, which left Vitaliy Stepanovskiy’s wards with chances for a comeback.
The third quarter was decisive. Her Croatia won by 10 points and in fact already became unattainable. The maximum that Ukrainian athletes managed was to win the last quarter with a minimum margin.
Defender Oleksandr Kovlyar became the most productive player in the Ukrainian team – 20 points, 8 assists, 4 rebounds.
Let us remind you that earlier Ukraine guaranteed itself an exit from the group ahead of schedule, beating the teams of Bulgaria and Iceland in the starting rounds of pre-qualification. In the battle for the first place, Stepanovsky’s team lost to Turkey.
Thus, the Ukrainian men’s national team dropped out of the fight for the Olympic ticket. Only the winner of the pre-qualification tournament will be admitted to the main Olympic qualification. Croatia will challenge this title with the winner of the Sweden-Türkiye pair.
- Basketball. Olympics 2024. Pre-qualifying tournament. semi-final
Croatia – Ukraine – 85:70 (24:17, 18:19, 26:16, 17:18)
Source: Sportarena
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