EuroBasket Women 2009 audio after match comments Styliani Kaltsidou from Greece will be joining Bourges Basket in France next season.
She is happy with the way things are going at the EuroBasket Women Championship for Greece.
She would have liked for Greece to have had more games but is now focusing on the all important final Qualifying Round game with the Slovak Republic on Monday, 15 June 2009.
Evanthia Maltsi is looking ahead to the match with the Slovak Republic. She believes that they are the most complete team at EuroBasket Women this year.
She concludes that at this stage of the competition this is the last chance for Greece so it is now all about winning and will.
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EuroBasket Women 2009 audio after match comments Elisa Aguilar explained that Poland played very well during the first period and caused them problems.
However during the interval they discussed possible solutions which were executed during the second half of the match.
She added that as a team they did have to work on starting to play from the start and not wait for 20 minutes.
On a personal note she added that the EuroBasket Women 2009 competition was going well because they were winning.
The team has good chemistry and it does not matter which player steps up on any given day.
Agnieszka Bibrzycka explained that Poland had not qualified for EuroBasket Women 2007. So it was great to be here. It was a young team with not much experience.
She said that they had won some matches and lost some like the game against Spain which she believed they could have won.
She went on to say that all is not lost and that in the last group game they would give it all for 40 minutes.
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Katerina Elhotova intercepted a pass at the start of the second period and held off her marker with a reserve spin to lay up for the Czech Republic.
Both sides exchanged three-pointers with Zoi Dimitrakou connecting for Greece before Tereza Peckova did the same for the Czech Republic.
The Czech Republic started to win offensive rebound but neither team scored for almost four minutes until Maltsi hit a long range jumper for two points.
However Petra Kulichová was quickly down the other end to score.
Greece, still leading (21-18), kept on looking for opportunities to break their opponents' defense. Dimitra Kalentzou managed to get a pass to Maltsi who sneaked in through the back door to score.
Maltsi then fired in her third three-pointer of the game and 16th point of the game (27-18).
This resulted in Milan Veverka, the head coach from the Czech Republic, calling for a time-out.
Dimitrakou scored the fifth three-pointer for Greece to lead by 12 points. However Greece conceded 2 late baskets and went into the locker room with only an 8-point lead (30-22).
Greece were handicapped early in the third period because Pelagia Papamichail picked up her third personal foul and had to return to the bench.
The Czech Republic managed to keep Maltsi quiet as they came back to draw level (34-34) with five minutes played in the third period.
However on drawing level they left Maltsi free who went on to score her fourth three-pointer of the game.
Veselá and Vitecková did most of the offensive work for the Czech Republic to bring the score down only for Greece to respond with a three-pointer.
Greece went into the final period leading (42-38).
It was all about end to end basketball at the start of the final period. Papamichail was back for Greece and made her presence felt offensively. Maltsi was causing mayhem and scored again from behind the arc.
For the Czech Republic it was Veselá who showed her skills in the art of three-point shooting.
Yet Greece continued to control and was leading (51-43) with five minutes to play.
Dimitra Kalentzou struck the ninth three-pointer of the game for Greece.
This was quickly followed up with an assist for Papamichail. This action brought an end to the game as a contest (56-45) with 2:48 remaining.
The Czech Republic used two time-outs but were unable to find any solution. So Greece savoured the victory with a flourish of baskets at the end (62-45).
Styliani Kaltsidou from Greece will be joining Bourges Basket in France next season.
She is happy with the way things are going at the EuroBasket Women Championship for Greece.
She would have liked for Greece to have had more games but is now focusing on the all important final Qualifying Round game with the Slovak Republic on Monday, 15 June 2009.
Poland made the first break with back to back scores from Agnieszka Bibrzycka (left) and Magdalena Leciejewska to move ahead (13-9) with a little over six minutes played.
Evaristo Pérez, the Spanish head coach, made some changes to the players on court.
With no improvement he called for a time-out with 90 seconds remaining in the first period.
Poland weathered the storm to edge the first period (15-13).
Spain were more aggressive at the start of the second period and drew level through Isabel Sanchez.
Justyna Jeziorna was called for an intentional foul (unsportsmanlike foul) on Sanchez which resulted in an extra free-throw for Sanchez.
She connected and Spain went in front. But they were not comfortable and Krzysztof Koziorowicz, the Polish coach, changed things around. His players started playing fast break systems and scored 6 unanswered points (26-21) to regain the lead.
Sanchez was the only Spanish player that kept her cool and hit a baseline three-pointer for Spain.
Anna Montañana was everywhere for Spain.
However Poland were not intimidated with Ewelina Kobryn fighting for everything in the paint, crisp passing from Daria Mieloszynska and scoring by Agata Gajda.
Poland went into the interval ahead (39-31) after hitting a trey with less than six seconds to the end of the quarter.
Kobryn got the Polish fans jumping for joy as she somehow scored with her back to the basket to open the scoring in the third period.
However the joy was short lived as Spain fired in back to back three-pointers by Elisa Aguilar and Alba Torrens.
Aguilar (right) scored again and Krzysztof Koziorowicz, the head coach from Poland, called for a time-out.
Spain completed a 11-0 run through Torrens to go into the lead with a little over three minutes played in the third period (42-41)
Laia Palau was throwing herself all round the court picking up crucial rebounds and setting up scoring opportunities.
She dished out a pass for Aguilar to hit a baseline three-pointer and another for pass inside the paint for Laura Nicholls who scored in the paint (47-43).
The Polish coach decided to call his second time-out of the quarter with just under three minutes to play.
Spain kept up the pressure and Anna Cruz concluded a fast break on the buzzer to take Spain into the final period leading (53-45).
Nicholls was having a tough battle with Kobryn but stuck to her task which eventually led to the Polish coach taking Kobryn out of the game after three minutes of the final period.
Nicolls next task was keeping Leciejewska quiet before being taken out of the game with five minutes remaining.
Spain leading (60-49) continued playing the player to player guarding system but used up more time before shooting.
Poland on the other hand went to zone defense and attacked quickly.
Poland used their last time-out with three minutes left to play. Yet whatever the coach asked for was not executed: Poland were unable to score. Instead Spain extended their advantage (65-53).
Spain’s unbeaten EuroBasket Women run continues as they won (67-55) with Montañana leading the way with 16 points.
Pokey Chatman, the coach from the Slovak Republic, called for an early time-out.
The Slovak Republic continued to hustle. When Regina Palusna won a battle with Anda Eibele and scored it was the turn for the Latvian coach to call a time-out.
With the clock running down, Latvia worked the ball out to Basko who then fired in a shot from beyond the arc on the buzzer.
