TURKEY BOUND - Greece's Fotsis on target

ATHENS (2010 FIBA World Championship) - When it comes to the big tournaments in international basketball, the Greeks are always dangerous.

Greece won gold at EuroBasket 2005, silver at the 2006 FIBA World Championship, reached the semi-finals at EuroBasket 2007, the last eight of the 2008 Olympics and captured European Championship bronze last summer.

One of the key men in their success has been Antonis Fotsis, and he will no doubt be ready to contribute at the FIBA World Championship in Turkey.

The 2.09m Panathinaikos power forward can mix it up with the big guys down low, but also kill teams with his long-range shooting.

Fotsis did the latter on Wednesday night for Pana, connecting on all four of his shots from behind the arc en route to a 13-point night as the Greens destroyed Olympiacos 73-54 in the opening game of the A1 Ethniki play-off finals.

The 29-year-old Fotsis, who played only 17 minutes, also had five rebounds.

Here's a look at how other national team stars possibly headed to Turkey performed.

Team USA

• Dwight Howard - The Orlando Magic center scored 21 points, hauled in 10 rebounds, swatted five shots and came up with two steals as the Orlando Magic won Game 5 of the NBA Eastern Conference finals over Boston, 113-92. Orlando trail in that series, 3-2.
• Kendrick Perkins - The Boston center, who was named in the USA Basketball national team squad for 2010-12, had two points and four rebounds but was ejected in the second quarter after picking up his sixth and seventh technicals of the NBA play-offs.

France

• Mickael Pietrus - The Orlando sharpshooter connected on two of his four attempts from long range and finished with eight points in 24 minutes. Pietrus also had a steal and a block.

Serbia

• Milos Teodosic - The Olympiacos point guard was voted Euroleague Player of the Year but he had an off night on Wednesday, missing all six of his shots from three-point range. He ended up with 10 points, two assists and four turnovers in the heavy defeat to Panathinaikos.
• Milenko Tepic - The young forward of Panathinaikos took just three shots and failed to score in eight minutes.

Lithuania

• Linas Kleiza - The high-scoring Kleiza was zero for five from behind the arc and two of nine from the floor overall. He made nine of 11 free-throws and finished with 13 points.
• Sarunas Jasikevicius - The Panathinaikos playmaker made a pair of free-throws, accounting for his two points in almost 10 minutes of action.
• Martynas Gecevicius - The Lietuvos Rytas scoring machine was voted MVP of the LKL Finals after guiding his club to the Lithuanian title. Gecevicius averaged better than 15 points in the seven-game series against Zalgiris Kaunas.

Croatia

• Nikola Vujcic - The Olympiacos center had three points in less than eight minutes.

Greece

• Vassilis Spanoulis - The Greek sharpshooter was two of four on his three-balls and scored seven points for Pana.
• Stratos Perperoglou - The Panathinaikos guard had six points on an efficient two-of-three shooting from the floor, including one of two from long range.
• Kostas Tsartsaris – Possibly the most underrated big man in Europe, the Greece big man had 10 points and three rebounds for Pana.
• Dimitris Diamantidis - The leader of the Greece backcourt, Diamantidis had nine rebounds and five assists to go with his seven points for Panathinaikos.
• Nick Calathes - The Panathinaikos reserve missed his only shot in 3:18 off the bench.
• Theo Papaloukas - The Olympiacos veteran point guard had four rebounds, three assists and three steals to go with his four points.
• Ioannis Bouroussis - The Greece center finished with nine points and four rebounds for Olympiacos.
• Sofoklis Schortsanitis - The Greek big man, a central figure in his country's 101-95 upset of the United States at the 2006 FIBA World Championship, had six points and three rebounds for Olympiacos.
• Kostas Kaimaglou - The Maroussi forward hit one of his two shots from long range and finished with nine points and four rebounds in a 75-70 victory over Panellinios.
• Mihalis Pelekanos - The guard scored eight points for Maroussi.

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