2023-06-03 15:09:08
Like the red-white-red women, Austria’s male team also made it into the quarter-finals at the 3×3 World Championships on Vienna’s Rathausplatz. After the group phase, the team from the host country had to go into a play-in duel with European runners-up Lithuania, against the team from the established basketball country there was a 22:18 win with strong support from the public before the end of the season. Quarter-final opponent is Serbia.
Mathias Linortner, among others, shone on the host team with a number of long-range goals, each of which was rewarded with two points. The last basket of the game also went to his account. “We’re still a young team, we make a lot of mistakes,” said teammate Nico Kaltenbrunner in an ORF interview after breaking away from the home crowd. “But we also showed heart and showed what we’re made of.” Everything is possible against the favored Serbs, world and European champions. “They have been very dominant in recent years, but we believe in it.”
On (today’s) Saturday from 9:40 p.m., the semi-finals will be played. The Austrian women’s team, which entered the knockout phase as group winners, will meet the play-in winners of the USA from 8:45 p.m.
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