Baskonia starring him Matteo Spaniolo defeat her Anatolou Efes with 86-75 and picking up their second straight win after the one against Dubai BC, improved their record to 2-6. On the other hand the Turks who were unstable they fell to 3-5 after the 8th matchday of the Euroleague.
The top scorer for the winners was Louvavu-Cambaro with 20 points and 5 rebounds, while the outstanding Matteo Spaniolo added 19 and dished out 6 assists. For Ephesus Larkin tried harderwho with 23 points emerged as the game’s top scorer.
The match:
The match started quite nervously with both teams showing misfires. Larkin unstick her effects, scoring his team’s first six points for the 6-4. Her answer Baskonia was immediate and with Louvavou-Cambaro and Sendekerskis as protagonists, ran a 6-0 run and went ahead (10-6), 4 minutes before the end of the first period. The tough game in the first quarter continued with Baskonia finding solutions in the face of Spagnolo, who with his own offensive crescendo gave the home team a seven-point lead (16-9) with 1’22” left. The Basquesdespite trailing by four, managed to finish the first quarter with a +11 (22-11).
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His team Kokoskov worked better on offense at the start of the second quarter with the Osmani and Wyler-Bubb finding easy points under the Spanish basket, closing the gap to six points (24-18). Back-to-back 3-pointers by Spagnolo and Nowell pushed the margin to its biggest (+12) for 32-20 midway through the second period. With them Lloyd, Larkin and Wyler-Bubb hit a three-point shot, Efes managed to cut it to 37-41 and in the next phase get even closer with the marked Lloyd passing to Larkin and he writing the 39-41. With the home side having the last attack and Spaniolo hitting from the penalty line the first half score read 43-39.
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Failure and nervousness characterized the third period with the Anatolou Efes needing three minutes to score her first basket, when Osmani hit under the basket for 46-41. After the first bad three minutes, the Turks they rolled better in the attack, but Galbiati’s team kept the difference in their favor with the shots of Louvavou-Cambaro and Sendekerskis making it 56-49. Spaniolo with two mid-range shots, he once again extended the lead to double digits (+12) for the 64-52 two minutes before the end of the third quarter. Kokoskov’s team, running a partial 6-2 in the last minute managed to reduce to 65-58.
The fourth quarter started with the Basques running an unanswered 7-0 run and sending the difference to its biggest value (72-58). It took Efes about four minutes to score in the final period with Osmani again with a 3-pointer to cut it to 72-61. The home team maintained good margins until the end and managed to take the pink match sheet with 86-75.
The quarters: 22-11, 39-41, 65-58, 86-75.
Editor: Thanos Kostas
Source: Sport Fm
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