Men s Basketball European Cup: After the first round, there are three major upsets, Doncic is the most helpless

The 2025 Men's Basketball European Cup officially started under the gaze of everyone. After the first round, 24 teams in 4 groups fought against each other. There were many upsets in 12 games, fully interpreting the value of "Europe has no weak teams". Among the three unpopularities, there are FIBA's world rankings with a total of 21st, the weak defeated the strong, the defending champion's in-place defeat, and the star players' two fists are hard to beat four hands. Let's review these three games next. In Group A, which was first in Group A, the match between the Czech men's basketball team and the Portuguese men's basketball team was originally regarded as a match without any suspense. After all, at the 2019 Men's Basketball World Cup, the Czech Men's Basketball Team scored sixth place as a dark horse. With such a family background, they ranked 17th in the world, while the Portuguese Men's Basketball Team ranked only 38th in the world. However, as soon as the game started, I found that this was not the case at all.

Absolute core Sartorins was absent from genetic injury, and another main player, Veselli, was also unable to go with the team due to injury, which greatly reduced the overall strength of the Czech team. These effects are also intuitively reflected on the court. The Czech team directly became a three-point jumper team. In the game against Portugal, their outside shooting efficiency was only 6 of 30, and their scored only 50 points in the game. Even though the Portuguese men's basketball team's offensive efficiency was not good, they still beat the Czech team with a full 12 points.

For the Czech team, the Atlanta Hawks' three-point shooting - No. 27 Kreich, averaged 7.2 points per game last season and had a three-point shooting percentage of 43.2%. The team was counting on him to output. As a result, the young man lost his standard, made 2 of 8 sports games, scored only 10 points, and made 3 mistakes. In contrast, the Portuguese team, Queta, who played for the Boston Celtics, performed much better, with 11 of 15 sports games, scoring 23 points and 18 rebounds, demonstrating the dominance of NBA players. The performance of the two also became a microcosm of this game, and the first unpopular event in this game was created.

The defending champion lost in the first game and lost 14 points in a focus match in Group C, the Spanish men's basketball team won the last European Cup, facing the Georgian men's basketball team. Although the Bullfighters are the defending champion, 22 years are the last afterglow of the golden generation. Now there is only one NBA player in the team, that is Aldama, who plays for the Grizzlies. During the warm-up match, the world's fifth-ranked Spanish team only had 1 win or 5 losses, and they were not optimistic about this match. But the world's No. 24-ranked Georgia team has a worse result - 0 wins and 6 losses, and they have become the only team that has not won the warm-up match. Unexpectedly, the defending champion fell in the first game and lost a full 14 points.

Aldama failed to play dominant power during the World Cup and Olympics, with 5 of 15 shots and only scored 12 points and 3 rebounds. The personal plus and negative value was embarrassing -24. The Hernan Gomez brothers were not able to turn the tide behind him. Georgia's inside Georgia's Gemini, Bitaze of the Orlando Magic, made 6 of 11 shots in the sports game, contributing 15 points, 5 rebounds, 2 assists and 1 steal; Mamuklashvili, who played for the Toronto Raptors, also made 6 of 11 shots in the sports game, handing over an all-around report card with 19 points, 7 rebounds, 6 assists and 1 steal. The ratio of free throws between the two teams is 13 to 26, and Georgia is twice that of Spain, which is also an intuitive reflection of the inside comparison between the two teams. Therefore, it is not unfair to lose the defending champion.

Doncic's all-round performance is hard to support it, compared with the first two games, the Slovenian men's basketball team, ranked 11th in the world, lost to the Polish men's basketball team, ranked 17th in the world, and it seems that the gap in strength is not that obvious. But the leader of the Slovenian team is Luca Doncic. In the NBA, it is also one of the five active players. His first loss still attracted a lot of attention.

In this game, Doncic's personal performance was impeccable, with 7 of 14 shots in the sports game, 17 of 18 free throws at the free throw line, and handed over a report card of 34 points, 4 rebounds, 9 assists, 5 steals and 2 blocks. It is obvious that the slimming effect this summer is very significant, and Doncic's speed on the defensive end has also been improved, which is no longer a defensive loophole on the court. Unfortunately, the Polish team's performance was more perfect. Although they did not have active NBA players because of Sohan's absence, the naturalized Lloyd once played in the NBA. In this game, 9 of 14 shots and 7 of 8 three-pointers were magical, and they scored 32 points to compete with Doncic. In 2019, Bonetka, who completed a steal against Zhou Qi, made 8 of 13 shots, scoring 23 points and 7 rebounds.

Doncic felt the helplessness of having two fists against four hands. Although he was not satisfied with the results of the warm-up match, as the leader, he had been furious in the locker room and encouraged his teammates to cheer up, but obviously on the technical level, the current Slovenian team is still a certain gap with the team that topped Europe. And watching the rise of Poland teams has made fans feel that losing to them is not that difficult, but it also feels a pity - how good it would be if we hadn't had that mistake.