Ukraine National Team started the additional qualifying round for Eurobasket-2007 with a 45:70 loss to Belgium.

 

Following the Friendship Cup in Kiev and a friendly tournament in Estonia, team morale seemed to have boosted within Ukraine, unfortunately, it didn’t show in the disappointing loss to Belgium.

 

The start of the game did not indicate the trouble was coming for the hosts. Point guard Artem Butskiy kept beating his man 1 on 1 on the offensive end, Oleksiy Poltoratskiy entered the game off the bench and his overwhel ...   »»