 Complete the following phrase:  During preparations for EuroBasket 2011, new head coach, Ilias Zouros, faced one of the greatest challenges in the history of the Greek basketball team, with the absences of no less than 9 key players including star players: Dimitris Diamantidis, Theodoros Papaloukas, Sofoklis Schortsanitis, and Vassilis Spanoulis. Zouros had to assemble a team mostly made of young players half of the teams players had never participated in the EuroBasket, with little time to prepare. The new national team, featuring some of the next generation Greek players Generation X, exhibited promising signs during friendlies, beating Russia 8380, Germany 6956, and Turkey 6238. At the EuroBasket, Greece managed to reach the quarterfinals, where they lost to the eventual silver medalist France 6456. Subsequently, the victory against Serbia 8777, and the loss to Lithuania 7369, led Greece to 6th place, thus securing participation in the 