Historic qualification to the quarter-finals of this year’s Eurocup was taken by Prometheus!
The Patras team prevailed 89-75 of French Bourges in “Tofalos” of Patras for the first knockout phase of the tournament, ensuring its presence in the quarter-finals, where next week in Latvia it will face the Ukrainian It foresees. If she qualifies again, she will face the winner of the Ulm-Turk Telecom/Brescia match in the semi-finals.
The Patrinos performed very well and had the “upper hand” from the start of the match, eventually triumphing with their top Kulboka and Cowanwho scored 20 points each!
On the other hand, Floyd (16p), Mike (13p) and Pelos (12p) stood out for the losers.
The match
THE Prometheus he was the one who entered better in the first minutes of the match, with Hogg hitting a three-pointer for 5-2 and Murato making it 8-3 with a basket and a foul. The Patrinos had very good accuracy rates and led 14-5 in the 6th minute, while with consecutive points by Dangubic and Gikathe home team took their first double-digit lead late in the first period (24-13).
The two teams were very misguided at the beginning of the second quarter, with Prometheus not finding a basket in the first 4:40, but maintaining the big difference in its favor, having as its “weapon” its very good defense. Chasang with a basket and a foul cut it to 26-19 for the guests, before o Kulboka with consecutive three-pointers make it 34-23. The difference in favor of Christopoulos’ team reached up to +13 (41-28), before Palmer reduced it for 41-33 of the first half.
THE Bourges came back from the locker room to go on a short 7-3 run and close to -4 (44-40), but Prometheus responded with a 9-0 run of their own, retaking a double-digit lead (53-40). With consecutive three-pointers from Pelos, Curby and Julien, Bourges came within striking distance (58-55), before Cowan’s three-pointer of his own shaped the 61-55 of the third period.
THE Prometheus entered the fourth quarter determined to… finish the match and with a 6-0 run went ahead again with +12 (67-55). Then keeping the lead close to 10 points, the visitors cut it to 78-71 on a three-pointer by Floyd, but that was as close as they got as Prometheus held on, eventually winning with 89-75.
The quarters: 24-13, 41-33, 61-55, 89-75
The match statistics
Source: Sport Fm
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