Trailing by as much as -22 in the third quarter, Prometheus Patras lost 81-90 in Murtia to the local team in the second matchday of the BCL’s ninth group of ’16’ and suffered its first loss in the group after the victory over AEK in the premiership last week, with the Spaniards making it 2 in 2.
The Patrinos made 17 errors and played poor defense, they fell behind with -22 in the third period and the 23-35 individual score in the fourth period simply reduced the final difference.
The Spanish leaders were Enis, Todorovic with 20, Radovic with 12 and Sliva with 11 points. For Elias Papatheodorou’s team, Hale played alone with 29 and Cowan with 20.
The match
Sliva made it 6-0 for Murcia and back-to-back 3-pointers from Ennis in Prometheus’ unacceptably poor perimeter defense made it 12-3 afterwards, with the Spaniards maintaining +8 to +10 for the Spaniards afterwards. Mistakes on both sides maintained the 17-7 lead for a long time and Todorivic “stuck” it. Coupein made it 21-9, Cowan’s run cut it to 21-13, Sliva made it 26-15 and Hale’s 3-0 run made it 26-18 at the end of the first quarter.
A 4-0 run by Prometheus at the beginning of the second period brought the score to 26-22 for the Patrinos, but the continuous mistakes and bad defense in the racket gave Murtia a 4-0 run. Prometheus’ Americans cut back to -4. Radovic with his own 4-0 run made it 34-26 and at 34-28 new frivolities of Patrina brought a 6-0 run for 40-28 and 42-30 with Radovic as the protagonist. Two steals by the Spaniards on the “sleeping” Prometheus guards in the center of the court made it 46-32 for the home team with easy layups, with Etzenike ending the half at 46-34.
A 5-0 run by Murcia at the start of the third period made it 51-34 for the Spaniards. Despite the 4-0 of Prometheus, Murtia went to 54-38 and an 8-0 run by the home team brought it 62-41 with the right choices in the home racket and, with the difference going up and down +19 to +21, the thirty minutes ended at 65-46.
Copain’s 3-pointer made it 68-46 early in the fourth quarter. Three-pointers by Koniaris and Hale reduced the score to -18, the home team’s 4-0 run brought +22, but Hale’s efforts brought the 7-0 run for -15 for Papatheodoros’ players. A 5-0 run brought the +20. At 83-63, Hale’s eight points of his own fueled a 12-0 run for 83-75 and the margin fluctuated between +7 and +10 for the final 90-81 by Kuruks.
The quarters: 26-18, 46-34, 65-46, 90-81
The statistics
Source: Sport Fm
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