He put a stop to the invincible streak of Prometheus and Dijon was left alone first!

He lost in France and experienced his first defeat in Europe this year Prometheus of Patras!

Elias Papatheodorou’s team was defeated 88-80 by Dijon as part of his 3rd matchday Basketball Champions Leaguein a match that “paid” for the bad third period, which gave a big lead to the French and proved to be the “key” to get the pink card in the end.

Absolute protagonist for the winners o Holston who stopped at 25 points, with four assists, while his worthy supporters were Cover and Hrovat with 14 and 12 points respectively. On the other hand, Mr Cowan tried to the end for the visitors with 22 points, three rebounds and as many assists, while Kofi scored 11 points with seven rebounds.

Thus, the Patrinos fell to 1-2 for their first defeat and fell to the second place of the second group, while the French team continued with the absolute victory (3-0) and remained alone first at the top.

The match:

THE Prometheus made it 4-0 at the start with the points of Koniari and Hale, while the Dijon “ran” a 7-0 (7-4) that gave her the lead and then took the difference to +8 (17-9), finding the Patrina defense disorganized. Hale and Stephens they reduced the difference to -3 at 8′ (17-14), with Caver and Ducote, however, taking the French team to +5 (24-19) at the end of the first period.

Prometheus may not have taken the lead in the score, however, they did not let the hosts build double-digit differences, while four of his points Reynolds Ilias Papatheodorou’s total reached -3 (28-25).

In fact, at the end of the half his seven points Croatian gave Dijon a seven-point lead (39-31), with the guests “responding” with Kofi and bring the game to balance (39-39). In the last minute, however, Prometheus seemed to have a blackout in defense and attack, conceded six points and went to the locker room to finish the first half at -6 (45-39).

In the second half, Dijon with +11 took a double-digit difference for the first time in the game (50-39), a decisive point that Prometheus “paid for” afterwards. And this because he was misplaced in his offensive efforts and with him Holston scoring three three-pointers, the difference in favor of the French went to +16 (59-43). The Patrinos did not find solutions to reduce the score to single digits, with the third period ending at -13 for Ilias Papatheodorou’s team (71-58).

At the beginning of the last quarter o Roussel jumped the difference to +16 for Dijon (76-60), with Prometheus, however, “responding” with a 9-1 that dropped the score to 77-69, having leaders in the attempt to overthrow Kofi and Cowan. Despite this, the French were not affected, they found the points, which took the difference, again, to double digits (82-70) and Prometheus was misguided in attacks that could have left him alive in the claim of the match.

In the 38th minute, the team of Patras reduced to -8 (82-74), but did not have time to claim the match, with the result that in the end the Dijon with 88-80 to get the pink card and continue her unbeaten run in the second group of the Basketball Champions League.

The quarters: 24-19, 45-39, 66-51, 88-80

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