The Israeli youth team lost tonight (Saturday) to Italy 75:67, and will play tomorrow against Lithuania for seventh place in the European Championship held in Izmir.
Following the loss, the chance to reach the under-19 world championship next summer, to which the first five places in the championship will go, was lost.
The game was mostly even.
At the end of the third quarter, Israel still led, but the fourth was under Italian control.
Israel was not helped by the record performance of Noam Yaakov, who scored 35 points, more than half of the team's points.
In addition, he gave 6 assists, took 5 rebounds and finished with an index of 36. Israel scored only 5 of 24 threes (19 percent) and allowed the Italians 16 offensive rebounds.
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