Puerto Rico falls against Greece in FIBA World Championship 2010:

ANKARA, Turkey - The last quarter again prove costly to Puerto Rico, which fell on Sunday against Greece 83-80 in a tight end, marked by a series of fouls that condemned the whole boricua.Accumulates two defeats Puerto
Rico in the FIBA world championships, but still has options to reach the second round.

“It was a great game. Greece is the best team from the line staff,” admitted coach Manolo Cintron. Cintron’s team took the field without Carlos Arroyo base, injured his left leg in the day on Saturday.

However, Jose Juan Barea, with 20 points, made him forget his companion, allowing Puerto Rico to dominate the scoreboard for much of the match.
After a first half equalizer, Puerto Rico in the third quarter got a lead of nine points, which, however, was quickly reduced by an inspired Vasileios Spanoulis, the game’s leading scorer with 28 points. The two evenly matched teams reached the final 10 minutes, exchanging minimal benefits of one or two points. In the absence of three minutes, center Peter John Ramos, who scored 16 points, had to leave after committing his fifth personal foul.

Since then, Puerto Rico was punished with more personal, some of them were protested by the players. In total, Puerto Rico was punished with 29 fouls to 20 for Greece. A minute from time, in a failed attack action by Puerto Rico, Cintron angrily demanded an alleged violation staff and arbitrators billed a technical foul.

Spanoulis The veteran guard made no mistake from the free throw line and led Greece to its second win of the tournament. “It was a good game until the last quarter,” said Barea. “Greece is a great team. We could not keep them away from the line staff and made his free throws.”