The Georgian national basketball team will finish preparing for EuroBasket 2015 with the Tbilisi tournament which will be hosted by Tbilisi Sports Palace on August 2-4. Great Britain, Belarus and Moldova will participate in the mentioned tournament with Georgia.

The following 19 basketball players were in the expanded composition of the Georgian national team: Nika Metreveli, Otar Pkhakadze, Duda Sanadze, Zaza Pachulia, Giorgi Tsintsadze, Levan Patsatsia, Viktor Sanikidze, Beka Burjanadze, Giorgi Sharabidze, Tornike Shengelia, Beso Lejava, Beka Tsivtsivadze, Mikheil Berishvili, Giorgi Shermadini, Manuchar Markoishvili, Ricky Hickman, Akaki Dvalishvili, Irakli Chlaidze and Revaz Rogava.

Markoishvili and Hickam are injured and they were replaced by Lasha Pargalava and Mikheil Chochua. Dvalishvili, Chlaidze, Rogava and Pargalava have already left the meeting. Now 14 players are in the team: Metreveli, Pkhakadze, Sanadze, Pachulia, Tsintsadze, Patsatsia, Sanikidze, Burjanadze, Sharabidze, Shengelia, Lejava, Tsivtsivadze, Berishvili and Chochua.

Central forward Giorgi Shermadini could not participate in the meeting due to injury. He will join the national team on August 4. After the tournament head coach will name those 13 players who will play at EuroBasket 2015.

The national team started preparing on June 23. After the Tbilisi meeting they departed for Slovenia on July 5. The Georgians held some friendly games. They lost to Lithuania 51:82 and 54:81.

In EuroBasket 2015 qualifying round Georgia will face Czech Republic, Hungary and Portugal. Here is the schedule of the Tbilisi international tournament:

August 2

Great Britain – Belarus 15:30

Georgia – Moldova 18:00

August 3

Belarus – Moldova 15:30

Georgia – Great Britain 18:00

August 4

Great Britain – Moldova 15:30

Georgia – Belarus 18:00

Roland Labuchidze