Daily highs: Dimitrijevic sets new scoring mark, Satoransky shines

MUNICH (Germany) - An eight-game Monday saw the highest scoring individual performance of the FIBA EuroBasket 2025 Qualifiers so far.

Nenad Dimitrijevic was unstoppable, leading North Macedonia to an impressive win over Poland - scoring 32 points in that win, hitting 8-of-13 shots from inside the arc and 3-of-9 from beyond the arc, while staying perfect on his seven free throw attempts. The only other player who reached the 30-point mark in this term was Klemen Prepelic of Slovenia, getting exactly 30 points in his first game.

The North Macedonia guard was closely followed by Iffe Lundberg and Vasileios Toliopoulos. Both of them scored 26 points on the day, Lundberg in Denmark's defeat to Finland, Toliopoulos in Greece's slim win over the Netherlands.

Estonia had one of the upsets of the millennium, picking up their first ever win over Lithuania. Maik-Kalev Kotsar pulled down 13 rebounds, the most on the day in all of Europe, gathering a double-double with 11 points to his name, too.

Four other players had 10 rebounds on Monday including Croatian duo Roko Prkacin and Mario Hezonja. Kotsar joins Yordan Minchev and Darral Willis at the top of the rankings in this edition of the Qualifiers, they are the only three players with 13 boards in a single game.

In assists, the only two guys in double digits actually faced each other in a single game. Czechia defeated Great Britain, thanks to 10 assists from Tomas Satoransky. He also had 21 points, 4 rebounds and 3 steals, while Carl Wheatle was not far behind with 17 points, 10 assists and 6 rebounds for Team GB. Not enough to dethrone King Tomas in Czechia.

 

 

A familiar name showed up at the top of the steals department. Ethan Happ did a bit of everything for North Macedonia, finishing with 19 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists and a day-high 5 steals. Sacha Killeya-Jones picked Czech pockets four times, seven other players had 3 steals on Monday.

Three was the magic number in terms of blocks. Three guys with three blocks were Serbia's Filip Petrusev, Greece's Kostas Antetokounmpo and Great Britain's Killeya-Jones. He was the only one on the losing side in this trio.

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