This time she was “Queen” and she didn’t… wrong herself!
With a full, spirited and serious appearance throughout the match, the AEK bent her Galatasaray inside Istanbul with score 81-71 for the second matchday of the “16” phase of the Basketball Champions League, and it entered the qualification stage with vigor!
His reading of the match was excellent Ilias Kanzouris, which saw many of the players develop into protagonists and come forward at crucial points.
The leader for “Union”, which climbed to the top of the group with a 1-1 record, was Achille Mitchell with 19 points and 13 rebounds, while closely followed by Strelnieks (18p., 3r.) and Flionis who reached the triple-double (11 points, 10 points, 9 assists)!
For the team of Andreas Pistiolis (1-1 record), who shot me just 37% in the field (10/36 sq., 28%)Ennis stood out with 18 points.
The match:
Enough balanced was the game in the first minutes, with the AEK to appear read in “Sinan Erdem”, limiting Galatasaray’s perimeter line, but also the home team’s ball circulation.
By Dimitris Flionis scoring six straight points and Miles hitting a 3-pointer, the Union led by 16-15 at 8′. Russell and Koksal, however, brought the home team to +3 (19-18), with Xanthopoulos reducing to a point, for 19-18 in the first period.
The advent of Jankovic and Strelnieks in the top five of AEK, they gave offensive “breath” to the team of Ilias Kanzouris, which combined with the dominance in the area of ​​rebounds, brought the “Union” to a driving position. With Jankovic scoring five straight points and the Lithuanian seven more, AEK took the lead for the first time with +5 for 33-28 at 17′!
But somewhere in there, he lost it clean mindwith Galata taking advantage of the mistakes of the Greek team, and with two back-to-back difficult step-back three-pointers by Ennis to go ahead (34-33). Mitchell’s layup and McGee’s shots sent Galata to the locker room with short header in the score (36-35).
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The derby continued in third period, where the match acquired… a demonic pace (21-26 individual score), as both teams… shot up their shooting percentages. AEK entered the second half very focused, and with them Mitchell and Papadakis to lead the attack, “Union” led with +4 and 50-46 at 25′.
The three points of Kolgiaro and Koslal brought the match to one more tie (52-52), with Williams and Strelnieks next, to… pay with the same coin the Turks for the 58-52 in the 27th minute, making Ilias Kanzouris on the bench burst into celebrations! In the last three minutes of the period, AEK played good defense, closing the quarter at +4 and 61-54.
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More in a while…
The quarters: 19-18, 36-35, 57-61, 71-81.
See here the live of the match.
See here the match statistics.
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