New beginning with a new coach for him Prometheus. His debut Elias Zourou on the bench combined with the team’s first victory in the Eurocup, with 83-80 in overtime against Bursaspor in “Tofalos”, for the 4th match of the second group.
Patras was disappointing in the first half, were also found at -15 at the beginning of the third period, but then they recovered and although they lost a difference of nine points to go to extra time, they dominated in the extra five minutes.
Top of the winners o Jeray Grant with 18 points, 6 rebounds and 5 assists, while Ray, Rogavopoulos and Giannopoulos scored 14 points each. Alerik Freeman with 20 and Derek Needham with 19 points stood out from the team of Bursa, which fell to 2-2.
Next mission in the Eurocup, next Wednesday (17/11), in Germany against Ulm.
The match
Gaddy, Ray, Rogavopoulos, Miles and Grant started the match for Prometheus. The Greek international with five points and one assist led his team to a good start (7-5), however Bursaspor took the lead and highlighted the defensive weaknesses of Patras. He closed the ten minutes at +7 (12-19) and before completing the three minutes in the second period he reached a double-digit difference, 16-26 and “climbed” to +14 (19-33). The hosts were annoyingly misplaced, but at least they managed to limit the damage and close the half at -10, 30-40.
The image of Prometheus did not initially improve in the third ten minutes. Freeman continued to hurt the home defense, with Dusan Alibijevic’s team reaching +15 (30-45). Somewhere there, however, the match started to turn around! Ray’s first three-pointer dropped the difference to single digits (40-49) and the Achaeans took the lead approaching the shot, 51-53, with Agravanis’s three-pointer in the final of the season. The overthrow ended with a three-pointer and a foul by Giannopoulos 6:48 before the end (60-57), while another of his “bombshells”, as well as a goal foul by Hunt, threw Prometheus at +9, 68-59. The hosts, however, were left without a score in the last 4:46 of the match, allowing the Turkish team to return and equalize with Touren at 46 ”. Agravanis and Ray missed a winning shot for Prometheus and the match was led to extra time.
In the extra five minutes, the hosts took a four-pointer with Ray and Grant, while a goal-foul by the American center with 1:53 remaining on the timer led Prometheus to 80-73. The guests approached 24 ” and 6.6 ” before the end, but Rogavopoulos with 1/2 shots gave one last hope to Bursaspor (83-80). Hunt’s foul was rightly not given unsportsmanlike at 2.9 ” before the end, but Brown inadvertently missed the first and obviously intentionally in the second shot, with Prometheus winning.
Ten minutes: 12-19, 30-40, 51-53, 68-68, (ref.) 83-80
See here the statistics of the match
Referees: Pereth (Spain), Mikic (Slovenia), Radojkovic (Croatia).
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