Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A EuroBasket 2007, masu kare kambun Turai sun ci gaba zuwa wasan kusa da na karshe inda suka fuskanci masu masaukin baki da kuma masu rike da kambun duniya Spain, a wasan karshe na karshe a shekara daya da suka gabata. Girka ta zo kusa da ɗaukar fansa amma daga ƙarshe ta yi asara 82<unk>77, kuma ta buga wasan lambar tagulla inda suka ci Lithuania. A Wasannin Wasannin Olympics na 2008
, wani rashin nasara na biyu na karshe 80 zuwa 78 ga Argentina a wasan kusa da na karshe ya jagoranci Girka zuwa na 5 a sake. A EuroBasket 2009, an canza ƙungiyar ta ƙasa da ƙarfi, tare da gungun matasa 'yan wasa kuma ba tare da manyan' yan wasa Theodoros Papaloukas da Dimitris Diamantidis ba, da kuma Panagiotis Vasilopoulos da Kostas Tsartsaris, gasar ta zama abin juyawa ga Girka bayan manyan nasarorin da suka samu kwanan nan. Koyaya, bayan shan kashi na huɗu a jere ga Spain a wasan kusa da na karshe kuma shekaru sittin bayan na farko, kuma na ƙarshe, lambar tagulla sun sami damar ɗaukar podium a matsayi na uku a kan rashin daidaito, tare da nasara mai ban sha'awa 57<unk>56 a kan Slovenia, yana dakatar da la'anar da aka ci nasara a duk wasannin lambar tagulla a tarihin su.