European Championships, Day 3

by Dan Casey Our final day from the Torwar Arena – we only planned this as a short break, and it worked out well for us as the British team limped out with a lackluster display and a 59-77 defeat. Nenad Krstic and Milenko Tepic led the Serbs with 17 points each while the British had 21 points from guard Nate Reinking and 16 points from Pops Mensah-Bonsu but unfortunately, not much else. Further evidence of Slovenia’s fan domination was that the two games were flip-flopped so that Slovenia-Spain could start early, allowing the Slovenia fans to leave after the game and find a bar where they could watch the Slovenia-Poland soccer match. Slovenia’s win in the soccer match topped a great week for them, adding to their success in this group. The only black mark for them was losing tonight’s game, but even then, they managed to push the Spanish to overtime (to the dismay of the Slovenians who wanted to leave in order to watch the soccer!!). Some controversial calls in ov...