Highlights: Slovenia vs Japan in Men's Basketball Olympic Games (116-81)

Argentina-Japan 

Spain-Slovenia

Rui Hachimura - 34 points and 7 rebounds

Yuta Watanabe - 17 points and 7 rebounds

Luka Doncic - 25 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists

Zoran Dragic - 24 points

Slovenia 116 x 81 Japan

Cebasek scores two consecutive three-balls

On the counterattack, Dragic goes for the tray.

Cancar hits only one free throw.

Rupnik notes another three-ball.

With less than 4 minutes left in the game, Doncic goes back to the bench.

Beautiful ball movement that ends with Blazic's three-ball.

LUKA! Beautiful basket of three from Doncic.

Luka converts both free throws.

32 points for Hachimura.

Vlatko Cancar converts both free throws.

Watanabe notes two more points.

Doncic and Hachimura with plays for three points each

Hachimura makes the lob for Watanabe.

Slovenia 80 - 64 Japan

Slovenia 80 - 64 Japan

In a worked play, Dragic notes on the tray. Hiejema answers with the three ball.

After much prodding, Zoran Dragic gets the two points for Slovenia.

Timeout Slovenia.

Watanabe scores a three ball.

Hachimura got the block, but they gave the goaltending and the points to Dragic.

Mike Tobey dunks and is fouled. Timeout Japan.

In the mid-range, Hachimura notes another basket.

What a block from Doncic on Yudai Baba

Two more points for Doncic.

Fantastic assistance from Doncic for another three-ball from Cancar. 

Two consecutives three ball for Slovenia and the lead is back to 13.

Vlatko Cancar notes two more points.

Hachimura scores two more points and is the top scorer with 19 points.

Slovenia 53 - 41 Japan

Field goals: 54% x 43%

2 points: 77% x 45%

3 points: 24% x 40%

Free throws: 64% x 60%

Rebounds: 25 x 17

Turnovers: 5 x 6

Assists: 12 x 6

Slovenia 53 - 41 Japan

Mike Tobey grabs the offensive rebound and notes the tray

Two points for Rui Hachimura.

Timeout Japan.

Yudai Baba scores on the counterattack, leaves Japan with a 6-0 run and forces Slovenia's timeout.

Nikolic scores on the tray

Watanabe scores for three points

Doncic converts two free throws.

Prepelic scores his first three ball.

Klemen Prepelic gets the basket after a pass from Doncic.

Slovenia 29-23 Japan

Slovenia 29-23 Japan

Dragic scores another three-ball for Slovenia.

Hachimura scores his third three-ball.

Dragic scores on the tray and forces Japanese timeout

Slovenia with 70% shooting, and Doncic already has 9 points.

Hachimura scores another three ball.

AND 1! Doncic makes the tray, is fouled and converts the free throw.

Hachimura hits Japan's first three-ball

Zoran Dragic makes a three ball.

Doncic hits both free throws

Zoran Dragic hits both free throws

Jaka Blazic scores for the first time.

Slovenia - Japan

Daiki Tanaka, Yudai Baba, Rui Hachimura, Gavin Earl Edwards e Yuta Watanabe.

Luka Doncic, Jake Blazic, Zoran Dragic, Vlatko Cancar and Mike Tobey.

Aleksandar Glisic (SRB), Michael Weiland (GER) and Ferdinand Pascual (PHI).

Daiki Tanaka, Yudai Baba, Rui Hachimura, Gavin Earl Edwards and Yuta Watanabe.

Luka Doncic, Jake Blazic, Zoran Dragic, Vlatko Cancar and Mike Tobey.

Besides Hachimura, Yuta Watanabe, who plays for the Toronto Raptors, also had a great performance despite a losing debut. The forward scored 19 points, grabbed 8 rebounds and also had 5 steals.

Besides Doncic, Mike Tobey also stood out in his debut: the pivot; he scored 11 points, grabbed 14 rebounds and had the second highest +/- of the team behind only the team's star player.

On the other hand, the home team had a very bad first half against Spain, had a small reaction but could not avoid the defeat by 88 to 77. The young pivot; from the Washington Wizards, Rui Hachimura, was the star of the Japanese team with 20 points.

In his Olympic Games debut, Luka Doncic scored 45 points to lead his country to an impressive 118-100 victory over Argentina.

1- Slovenia - 2 points
2- Spain - 2 points
3- Japan - 1 point
4- Argentina - 1 point

Slovenia vs Japan - 12:40am - Saitama Super Arena

Spain vs Argentina - 8am - Saitama Super Arena

We are now covering Slovenia-Japan in the second round of the Men's Basketball Group C at the Tokyo Olympics. The ball will go up this Sunday (29), at 12:40 am, at the Saitama Super Arena, in Saitama, which is part of Tokyo. Come join us!