The international Acropolis tournament tipped off yesterday in Athens with the participation of Lithuania, Russia, Serbia and Greece. In gameday 1 Greece and Lithuania beat Serbia and Russia respectivelly.
Lithuania had an easy evening against Russia who seems lost without Andrey Kirilenko and JR Holden. Without evening playing at full potential the Lithuanians won 78-61 while the margin even reached 20 points in the last quarter.
Lithuania: Mazutis 3, Kalnietis 2, Maciulis 3, D.Lavrinovic 12, Lukauskis 2, Delininkaitis 2, Jasaitis 5, Kleiza 9, K.Lavrinovic 15, Jomantas 4, Petravicius 14, Javtokas 7
Russia: Voronchevic 5, Kurbanov, 6, Fridzon 8, Sokolov 3, Khryapa, Vialchev 5, Monya 11, Ponkrashov, McCarty 13, Shved, Kaun 2, Mozgov 8
In the second game of the evening Greece escaped with the win in the end playing fantastic defense in Serbia's final posession while the hosts even lost double digit margins during the game.
Greece: Calathes 2, Bourousis 13, Zisis 15, Spanoulis 15, Tsaldaris, Fotsis 2, Printezis, Kaimakoglou, Papanikolaou, Koufos 3, Perperoglou 5, Schortsanitis 11
Serbia: Popovic 3, Tepic 3, Radulica 9, Erceg 7, Kecman, Bjelica, Tripkovic 4, Teodosic 10, Krstic 8, Perovic 5, Paunic 11, Macvan 5
