Another sell-out crowd tonight at the Tampere Deck Arena. 12,900 on hand as hosts Finland looking good to advance to the @EuroBasket round of 16. They lead Montenegro 50-37 with a minute played in the third.

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Sweden ends near 12-year wait for @EuroBasket win as Pelle Larsson stars in win over Great Britain. Report:

Sweden beat @gbbasketball 78-59. GB's chances of qualification now hang by a thread. Up next: The world champions and unbeaten Germany, who qualified for the Round of 16 earlier today with a win over Lithuania.

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.@gbbasketball trails Sweden 35-30 at the half. Jelani Watson-Gayle hits a three-pointer on the HT buzzer.

.@gbbasketball trails Sweden 19-13 at the end of a very scrappy first period. Nelson and Hesson lead GB with 3 points, who are shooting just 4/13 from the field. Ludwig Hakanson leads Sweden with 7pts.

.@gbbasketball starting five vs Sweden: Luke Nelson, Jubrile Belo, Akwasi Yeboah, Myles Hesson and Carl Wheatle. Sweden: Larsson, Hakanson, Gaddefors, Pantzar and Birgander (Larsson and Birgander return after sickness kept them out of yesterday's game vs Germany).

Germany becomes the first team to advance to the Final Phase of @EuroBasket with a clinical showing against Lithuania. Report:

Lithuania and Germany are a combined 9/12 from three-point land to start. Germany has the edge with 2:21 left in the first, up 21-18.

Germany (2-0) vs Lithuania (2-0) starts off day 3 of action at @EuroBasket in Tampere. Winner of this game heads to Riga for the next round.

.@gbbasketball guard Luke Nelson on tonight’s loss to Finland: “We fought as hard as we could. But when you go up against a player like Lauri, and he’s doing that. It’s always going to be hard. But we have to forget this game now, and move on. We keep going.”.

Markkanen on his 43-point game: “I always give credit to my teammates. They give me good screens, they find me in an open spots and the end result is when you get good shots and knock them down. I was in a groove.”

My recap on Finland’s win over Great Britain as Lauri Markkanen steals the show with his second @EuroBasket career 40-point game

.@gbbasketball lose 109-79 to Finland. Lauri Markkanen erupts for 43 points. Luke Nelson paced GB with 13.

.@gbbasketball trails Finland 81-56 after three. Lauri Markkanen has 40 points. Thats all that needs to be told.

As Finland and Great Britain go away for half-time, I just got word that it is a 12,900 sell-out tonight here at the Tampere Deck Arena.

.@gbbasketball trails Finland 58-42 at HT. GB showed a lot of promise. That was until Markkanen splashed a four-point play with 11.9 seconds left in the half. Big blow and now it's a question of how GB will respond in the 3rd. Nelson has 11 for GB, Markkanen, 29pts for Finland.

Strong spell for @gbbasketball, who have reduced the deficit to 49-41 with 1:26 remaining in the half, thanks to a driving lay-up from Luke Nelson. Finland had control, but the last two minutes have seen GB the stronger of the two sides.