Greece managed to beat the hosts of the Olympic Games 2008 in Beijing grabbing third position in Preliminary Group B with score 3-2. Thus, Greece will play against the reining Olympic champion Argentina in the quarterfinals. China ended first stage as a fourth ranked team in Group B with 2 wins and 3 defeats. It is already magnificent success for the Chinese, which will meet Lithuania in the quarterfinals. It will be for sure one more interesting game in Beijing.
This one is decided already in the first half. Vassilis Spanoulis (193-G-82, agency: Beo Basket) entered into the game furiously leading his team to 27-15. He scored 11 of his 19 in the first quarter. Very soon Petros Bourousis (203-F-87) and Antonis Fotsis (210-F-81) joined him taking care for the points at the offensive end. Chinese struggled with their stroke during the first twenty minutes having also many troubles with running the plays. Greece is experienced team which knew how to exploit that. At the half time Greece set the margin on 22 points, 46-24. China treated in third period through Ming Yao (226-C-80) and Wang Zhizhi (214-C-79) coming on 58-48 in 27th minute but Greece quickly answered with 6-0. For the rest of the time Greece kept advantage of 10 or more points steady.
Tandem Petros Bourousis and Vassilis Spanoulis paced Greece to victory in this game. Each of them drained 19 points while Petros Bourousis had 9 more rebounds. Except of 19 points, Vassilis Spanoulis dished out 5 assists for 26 minutes. China's hero Ming Yao shined again nailing 16 points and grabbing 5 boards for just 18 minutes. Wang Zhizhi followed him with 14 points and 8 rebounds while Wang Shipeng (197-F/G-83) and Jianlian Yi (212-C/F-87) added 11 points apiece.
Greece - China 91-77
(27-15, 19-9, 23-30, 22-23)
Greece: Petros Bourousis 19 (9 rebs), Vassilis Spanoulis 19 (5 as), Antonis Fotsis 17 (4 rebs)
China: Ming Yao 16 (5 rebs), Wang Zhizhi 14 (8 rebs), Wang Shipeng 11, Jianlian Yi 11
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