Where to watch Lithuania vs Greece: Giannis and Valanciunas battle it out in FIBA EuroBasket 2025 Quarter Finals
- → Game to take place at Arena Riga, Riga on Tuesday, September 9 at 21:00 Local Time (UTC+3)
- → Form check: Greece beat Israel 84–79 as Giannis Antetokounmpo erupted for 37 points and 10 rebounds; Lithuania handled Latvia 88–79 behind a commanding frontcourt, with Ąžuolas Tubelis starring on the glass.
- → Winner of this contest will meet Poland or Türkiye in Final Four
A superstar meets a superstructure
Vassilis Spanoulis has simplified the menu and sharpened the knives for this FIBA EuroBasket 2025. Greece’s offense is built on first-strike transition and early post-ups for Giannis before the defense is set, then a steady diet of angle pick-and-rolls that hunt the creases. The spacing has been purposeful: one strong-side shooter parked deep in the corner to punish tags, a second playmaker lifting into handoffs to keep Giannis moving, and a steady flow of 45-cuts to punish overhelp.
When the game slows, Giannis has been decisive—middle seals, baseline spins, and short-roll reads to cutters flashing behind the wall. The supporting cast matters in the margins. Kostas Sloukas steadies the end of quarters, manipulating bigs with pace changes; Tyler Dorsey’s corner threes force defenders out of the lane; the wings bring the grit—screening, crashing, and closing space defensively so Giannis can freelance as an eraser. If Greece keep the turnover count down and win the free-throw volume battle, their athletic ceiling becomes suffocating.
The defensive blueprint is a classic for this Greece team: shrink the floor, take away the first pass, and trust Giannis as a one-man fastbreak off the board.
Rimas Kurtinaitis’ Lithuania is a machine built from the inside out. They’ll test your body first: clean the defensive glass, widen the paint with strong-side seals, and make you live inside a phone booth. Valančiūnas remains the anchor—punishing deep position, punishing the rim on rolls, and drawing fouls at scale. The emergence of Tubelis in Riga has added a dose of mobility and extra rebounding punch, giving Lithuania a double-big look that can toggle between bully-ball and pace.
Perimeter creation flows through composed guards who are comfortable feeding the post, rejecting screens, and finding shooters like Deividas Sirvydis on the drift. In the Round of 16, the X Factor was Arnas Velicka: the Neptunas point guard more than filled in for injured Jokubaitis and filled the stat sheet with 21 points and 12 assists, leading The Green Death to a famous Baltic derby win in Riga.
A FIBA World Cup rematch with Final Four as the prize
Greece are chasing their first EuroBasket medal in over a decade and have the tournament’s most overwhelming force in peak rhythm. Lithuania are hunting a return to the podium and trust the thing that’s always traveled for them: size, discipline, and resilience. One will break the other’s shape.
How to watch Greece vs Lithuania
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