Impressively started this year’s racing duties in the Basketball Champions League or AEK!
On the court where a few weeks ago the Our national team He wrote a story with the conquest of the bronze medal in Eurobasket 2025, his team Dragan Sakota celebrated great double at the BCL premiere, dominating with characteristic comfort Riga’s 69-53 score in Latvia!
There were two “pillars” that brought the victory to the “Union” … One was the its excellent defense throughout the matchafter holding the Riga below 13 points in three of the four minutes (!), while the one stood out Polyphony in attack.
Top for the winners was the Dimitris Katsivelis With 13 points and 6 rebounds, with Gray (6p, 4p, 8s), Kuzminskas (9p), Flion (8p, 5p) and Charalampopoulos (6p, 3p) to offer valuable help.
The match:
OR AEKwho started the game with Flionis, Bartley, Arms, Ray and Silva in her original five, entered the match very dynamically and imposed her own pace early. With Gray To distribute the ball and ARMS, Flion and Silva to find their way to the opposing basket, the “Union” led 9-4 in the first three minutes of the match. OR Stripe He reacted and taking advantage of two Greek team errors, equalized 9-9 a minute later.
However, thanks to its very good defense but also the rapid movement of the ball, his team Dragan Sakota He didn’t miss the lead. On the contrary, with Gray’s two-pointer, a Silva goal and a Kuzminska three-point from the top, the “yellow-blacks” preceded with +7 for 19-12 In the 8th minute. Charalampopoulos took the baton, who with four shots uploaded the score to the score to come to come Katsivelis in ‘dead time’ and with an unlikely buzzer beater from 9.5 meters to form 26-12 of the period!
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With two apt Petcarsky shots for the maximum value of the difference and 28-12 started the second quarter, Before Angevs cut off the “yellow -black” series at 14 points and finds a score for the hosts After almost 4.5 minutes! AEK continued to have complete control of the match, with Dimitris Katsiveli to find six gathered points on the stadium where he won the bronze medal a few weeks ago, for the national team, for +16 and 34-18 in the 14th minute!
Then the pace of the race fell significantly, but without changing much about the status of the score, as the “queen” with Kuzminskas and Arsenopoulos was able to maintain the result in favor. In fact, with a large three -point Lithuanian at the end of the team’s attack on the finale of the period, AEK arrived at +17 and went to the locker room with the Impressive 41-24!
To third quarter The Riga racing explosion came, as the “Union” presented some … dead intervals in its game with quite lost shots, but also many fouls, which created a problem with the high line. It is characteristic that AEK needed 6:11 ‘racing minutes In the period to achieve the first in its field (!), At a time when she had only found a score with the shots of Silva and Flion. At this time, the hosts rejected aggressively and with the Zahir Porter At the spearhead, they were able to drop the difference at single digit prices (38-47 at 26 ‘) after an hour.
The whole of Dragan Sakota though … awakened the rest of the quarter and Restored the class in the “Xiaomi Arena” parquet! With Gray, Charalampopoulos and Kuzminskas scoring in the last two minutes, the “yellow-blacks” ran an 8-0 run in the finale of the season, again equalizing the maximum value of the difference For +17 and 57-40 of the quarter!
With AEK having the psychology and the momentum on its side began the fourth and final period. There, the “yellow -blacks” may not have stepped foot in the “Gazi” and did not get their performance, however, they managed perfectly in favor of their effect and easily reached the Pink sheet match with the final 69-53. As in the first 30 minutes, as well as at this time, the “Union” got a high degree in its defense and rightly reached the first European victory of the season!
The quarters: 12-26, 24-41, 40-57, 53-69.
See the statistics of the race here.
Source: Sport Fm
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