With a defeat, the fifth in six matches, the AEK this year’s adventure in the Basketball Champions League losing 81-69 to Treviso in Italy.
Already excluded, without Pappas and Mavroidi, with only four foreigners and with Stefanos Dedas grabbing Brian Angola in the first half out, the “Union” fought as much as possible but did not avoid the παρά fatal despite the effort in the second half.
Unable to do anything more, the “Union”, which traveled with nine players to Italy and between these young people Saxioni and Carli. Eric Griffin with 23, Ian Hammer with 16 and Brian Angola with 15 points were saved.
Dwayne Russell with 17 and Michal Sokolovski and Giordano Bortolani with 14 points stood out from the winners.
Turn for AEK in the quarterfinal of the Cup with Peristeri on Sunday in Liosia (20:00).
The match
The good start of AEK (2-7) quickly faded. The serious shortcomings, especially in the line of the tall ones, “shouted” and Treviso, constantly renewing attacks (9 offensive rebounds in the first half) with a 12-0 took control (14-7). Stefanos Dedas exploded in the timeout against his players with the main recipient being Angola, whom he accused of not following the game plan and withdrew. The Italian team starring Kilo reached 19-10 before the end of the first period and in the first three minutes of the second half was 30-15. The 5-0 of the “yellow-blacks” did not have continuity, as the defensive weaknesses could not be covered with the belt and the difference shot to +19 (42-23) shortly before 45-29 of the half.
The “Union” started transformed in the second half and with a quick 7-0 approached the nine (45-36) forcing Massimiliano Menetti to call a time out. The counterattack continued with Griffin nailing the difference to six (55-49) in the two and a half minutes before the end of the third period. Despite the limited rotation, the guests continued to fight (67-61), but the three-pointers by Sokolovski and Kilo removed the hosts to 77-61 and essentially “cleared” the game.
Ten minutes: 19-12, 45-29, 59-53, 81-69
See here the statistics of the match
Referees: Marks (Portugal), Deman (France), Mategek (Czech Republic).
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