EUROBASKET NEWS REPORT - 2/26/2008
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*****************************************************Gabriel Diaz got injured and will miss the rest of the season so the team decided sign Fernando Malara (194-F-80, agency: Interperformances). Fernando played in sionista this season.
On the other hand Kevin Sowell (190-G-81) was allowed to play by the Lebanese club and FIBA. It's a good new for central because he is an important scorer.
Central have lost too many games in the last weeks so they will need both players to play in a good level.
Ural Great Perm, former superclub from Russia, had a tough time against Estonian champions TU/Rock in Game 2 of FIBA EuroCup quarter-final but managed to take 68:61 victory and force a deciding Game 3. It will be playd in March 4th, in Tartu.
The hosts bounced back from a 75:78 loss in Game 1, starting with a 9:0 spurt in first five minutes. Rock came back thanks to their big men Cusworth and Talts and took the lead in 2nd quarter after a three-pointer from Tsintsadze. Three-pointers by Belov and Zozulin secured a 32:28 half-time lead for the hosts who were led by 11 points from Brindley Wright.
In 2rd quarter, Rock made a 10:2 run thanks to 2 three-pointers by Tein, and went ahead 38:36. Sadly for Estonian team, this was the last happy moment for them today. Ural Great made 3 three-point attacks in 2 minutes, combined an 14:0 run and went up by 12 points. They held a double-digit lead for most of the 4th quarter and back-to-back baskets from Zozulin secured the victory with two minutes left.
Wright led the hosts with 18 points and 10 rebounds. Wisniewski, Zozulin and Plisnic added 10. Cusworth led Rock with 15 points and 7 rebounds. Tein added 13. Rock made 25 three-point attempts.
In Game 1, Estonian champions led for the most of the time, showing very disciplined game in both offence and defence, whereas Ural Great tried to score from a long range and had managed to keep the game even only thanks to enormous shooting by Plisnic and successful hunting of offensive rebounds. Rock won the first half 40:37 and made an 11:1 run in 3rd quarter, going ahead 52:42. Three minutes later it was even, 53:53 but a three-pointer by hot-handed Tein took the 3rd quarter 59:54 for the hosts. He started the 4th quarter with another triple and with 7 minutes left to play, Rock led 69:54! But it was not over yet. Wright and Zozulin made most of the damage and with 3 minutes left, Rock led only 73:69. Wisniewski made a crucial 2+1 with 34 seconds left, cutting hosts' lead to three - 78:75. Kullamae missed on the next attack and perm had the chance to tie the game. Luckily for the hosts, Wright missed.
Tein scored 18 for the winners, Tsintsadze added 16, Cusworth and Kullamae 13. Janar Talts cheered the crowd with 6(!) blocks. Plisnic made 5 three-pointers and led his team with 19 points.
Korisliiga, Round 34: Monday night, only one (TV)game, where # 1 Team Torpan Pojat (Helsinki) hosting and as the visitor YMCA Lappeenranta.
Yes, all folks saw on TV, that ToPo's game is in disorder right now. Team is missing Jerald Fields a lot. And Team needs quickly a good player to
replace Fields. There are only a few days time to find a new American player. ToPo did not have a slightest chance tonight vs Lappeenranta. The
game was over in 10 minutes. Visitor was better in everything. Rebounds 36-53 and shooting %: ToPo shot treys 9,5% (2/21)! Visitor's Pasi Riihela (199-F-75)
made six treys out of eight shots. Riihela finished with 34 pts.
Torpan Pojat - YMCA LPR 56-100 (22-53) (Iiro Tenngren 20, Josh Gonner 9 - Pasi Riihela 34/10, Ivan Harris 18).
Feni Industri gan a very valuable victory away from home, in Bitola, beating Swisslion Pelister 80:78 in a game from Round 23 in the First Macedonian league.
Zlatko Gocevski and Donald Cole led the scoring, with 18 points each for Feni Industri.
Champions Strumica 2005, playing without suspended players Miljan Pupovic and Ivan Bosnjak, beat easily Vardar Osiguruvanje 84:67.
Macedonian NT forward Dime Tasovski lead Strumica 2005 with 28 points.
Last season runners up Ferspred Rabotnicki suffer their fourth straight defeat, going down to Amak SP in Ohrid 78:83. Jarrid Frye scored 25, while Vojdan Stojanovski added 22 points for Amak SP.
MZT FON Univerzitet Skopje proved they are in a great form, beating bottom of the league Karpos Sokoli 2000 115:91.
Srdjan Zivkovic scored 26 points for MZT, while home crout favourite Muhamed Thaci scored 24.
After 16 weeks unbeaten, Panathinaikos lost the game in the Alexandreion Melathron and the deficit between Panathinaikoas and Olympiakos minimised. The reason of this defeat was simply an ex Green player, Giorgos Kalaitzis (195-G-76) was magnificent last night, the experienced ex Panathinaikos player was the MVP of the 17th week after his amazing performance against the permanent champions of Obradovic. Not only his points but his amazing passion, very good defence and truly leading role in Aris's team, Giorgos Kalaitzis was most certainly the man of the game and the man of the week. Giorgos Kalaitzis scored 18 points, 6 rebounds, 5 asssits and 5 steals in 30 minutes with nearly perfectly shooting percentages. The final score was 82-75. The quarters of the game were: 23-19, 52-36, 65-63 and the final 82-75. Top scorer of the game was Jeremiah Massey (202-F-82, college: Kansas St.) who added another amazing game in his career, this time the American power forward stopped at 21 point and 12 rebounds with 2 steals and 2 block shots. Wright was also very good with his 20 points. On behalf of the worst team of Panathinaikos only the Lithuanian Sarunas Jasikevicius (192-G-76, college: Maryland) tried to continue the winning tempo of the Triple crowners by scoring 15 points followed by Dikoudis's 14.
In the other games of the 17th week we had the first victory of Coach Dragan Raca and Olympiada Patras over AEL 1964 which created a lot of troubles for the Larissa team, the very crucial victory of Kolossos Rodou over their rivals from Crete, Rethymno, the very important win of Coach Angelou and AEK Athens over Panionios and the road win of Coach Panagiotis Giannakis over his ex team Maroussi. The results and the top scorers were the following:
Olympiada Patras - AEL 1964 81-75
Top scorers: Necovic, Dewayne Jefferson (191-G-79, college: Miss.Valley St.) and Periklis Dorkofikis (206-F-80) 15 per head, Dragan Ceranic (212-C-76) 24 points.
Head Coach Kostas Pilafidis resign just after the game.
Egaleo - Panellinios 87-80
Top scorers: Prodromos Nikolaidis (201-F-78) 23, Anthony Grundy (189-G-79, college: N.Carolina St.) 20.
Kolossos Rodou - Rethymno 85-80
Top scorers: Giorgos Diamantopoulos (195-F-80) 17, David Young (196-G/F-81, college: N.C.Central) 30.
Olympia Larissas - PAOK 80-69
Top scorers: Mike King (193-G-78, college: George Washington) 25, Kutluay 17
AEK - Panionios 72-62
Top scorers: Christos Tapoutos (208-F-82) 18, Giannis Giannoulis (207-C-76) 14
Maroussi - Olympiakos 66-75
Top scorers: Jarod Stevenson (200-F-75, college: Richmond) 19, Costas Vasiliadis (200-G/F-84) 18.
(194-G/F-76, agency: Gross Zeev ISA, college: Wyoming) and Sergerio Gipson
(193-G/F-80, agency: 540 Sports, college: Arkansas) who combined to make 20 of 22 total free throws. Roberts scored a game-high 30 pts., with Gipson adding 24 and Mohammed Abukar (208-F-85, college: San Diego St.) scoring 20. In all, MyGuide shot 63.4% FG, made 9 of 17 threes and shot 27 of 32 from the free throw line. Kevin Melson
(199-F-78, college: Wright St.) led Donar with 23 pts. It was MyGuide's 8th straight win and improves its record to 25-4, while Hanzevast falls to 16-12.
(195-G/F-81, agency: R.H.Consultancy) led all scorers with 22 pts., with new recent addition Frank Young
(196-F-84, agency: Pro One Sports, college: W.Virginia) adding 17, and Chaz Twan Briggs (201-F-80, college: W.Virginia) adding 12 pts. and 12 rebounds. Lawrence Hamm
(198-F-84, agency: Court Side, college: Towson) led Aris with 16 pts. The Rotterdammers forced 24 Aris turnovers. Rotterdam Challengers are now 15-12 and a half-game out of 5th place in the FEB standings.
(198-F-85, college: Canisius), Landstede wins its 3rd in a row and 6 of last 8, winning over Matrixx Magixx by the score of 82-73. Wilson put on his hard hat and took his lunch pail, scoring a season-high 32 pts., with 12 rebounds, 5 steals and 3 assists. Wilson got good help from Robby Bostain
(191-G/F-84, agency: Sports Plus International, college: Furman), who added 17 pts. and 5 assists, and Gerad Punch
(193-G/F, college: Furman), who added 18 pts. with 4 three-pointers. Antoine Jordan
(195-G-83, college: Siena) led Matrixx with 15 pts. Landstede also forced 27 Matrixx turnovers. With the win, Landstede continues its ascent in the FEB standings with a 12-17 record and a half-game from Upstairs Weert in the FEB standings.
(183-G-81, college: St.Augustine) led the Giants with 22 pts., with ' Mr. Double-Double' Devonne Giles
(203-F-83, agency: Worldwide Hoops, college: Texas Tech) adding his 21st double-double of the season, with numbers of 17 pts. and 10 rebounds. Darrell Tucker
(206-F-80, agency: Hart Sports Mngm, college: USF) led all scorers with 26 pts., with Kees Akerboom
(199-F-83, agency: Court Side) adding 21. West-Brabant Giants wins its 6th straight and improves to 21-9.
(201-F/G-84, agency: Court Side, college: Niagara) scored 24 pts. to lead Den Helder, with Robert Kulawick (191-G-86) and Bradley Strickland
(206-F/C-85, agency: Court Side, college: Evansville) adding 16 pts. each. Den Helder are now 4-24.Caracas, Venezuela.- Cocodrilos de Caracas (Venezuela) ended at first place of Group A in Liga Sudamericana 2008, after successfully earning a triumph over Boca Juniors (Argentina) in matchday 3 at Naciones Unidas Park, with a final scoreboard of 91-79. Meanwhile, Universo BRB (Brazil) maintained options to advanced as one of the best lucky loosers squads in third place with a comfortable 120-68 victory over Regatas de Lima (Peru).
Cocodrilos de Caracas 91 - Universo BRB 79
COCODRILOS (VEN)= 91 (14+26+22+29)
, Kelley McClure (186-G-74) 20 points, Victor David Diaz (195-F-68) 14 points, Juan Herrera (197-F-81) 6 points, Luis Bethelmi (200-C-86) 12 points, Kevin Freeman (201-F-78) 4 points (Starting Five). Henry Paez (184-G-70) 14 points, Jesus Centeno (190-G-85) 0 points, Kevin Palacios (203-F/C-84) 15 points, Kenji Urdaneta (188-G-85) 3 points, Jhoyfer Diaz (196-F-87) 0 points, Rosmel Blanco (205-C-76) 0 points, Boris Urbina (195-G/F-84) 3 points. Coach: Nestor Salazar
BOCA JUNIORS (ARG)= 79 (19+14+24+21)
Gustavo Orona (196-G-75) 7 points, Luis Cequeira (180-G-85) 2 points, Leonardo Gutierrez (200-F-78) 18 points, Devon Ford (193-G-77) 20 points, Gabriel Fernandez (204-C-76) 3 points (Starting Five) Alejandro Alloatti (203-F/C-84) 11 points, Jamal Robinson (196-F/G-73) 7 points, Fernando Funes (193-G-83) 10 points, Juan Sartorelli (190-G-83) 1 point, Raymundo Legaria (178-G-80) 0 points, Federico Aguerre (203-F/C-88) 0 points, Leonel Schattmann (194-G-87) 0 points. Coach: Gabriel Picatto