Basketball
European Cup. Skapintsev, who had a productive match from Kovlyar, helped Hapoel to defeat
On December 16, the 11th round of the EuroCup regular championship started.
In Italy, “Trento” hosted “Buducnost” and won a tough victory with 4 seconds left before the end of extra time in the equality match, where the leader changed 16 times and neither team could gain a lead of more than 7 points.
Buducnost sent the game to overtime thanks to Ferrell’s accurate three-pointer with 24 seconds left in regulation time (80:80). At exactly the 5th minute, the American player again became the hero of the Montenegrins and equalized the score with an accurate three-point shot 14 seconds before the siren, but the guest team could not defend cleanly and Stewart made one of the two free throws to bring Trento a 91:90 victory.
Buducnost’s second most productive player Alexander KovlyarThe player who made 12 points (4/5 free throws, 1/2 two-point shots, 2/4 three-pointers), 1 assist and 3 steals and 3 fouls in 27 minutes on the field.
Cedevita Olimpia played in a home match against Hapoel Jerusalem and lost.
In the first half of the match, the away team behaved better, quickly seized the initiative and kept their opponents a few points away. As a result, they won the first half 84:81. As the second half progressed, Olimpia gradually reduced the gap but failed to at least equalize the score, although the game was close at 81:84 at the end.
I spent 7 minutes on the pitch with Hapoel Dmitry SkapintsevDuring this time, he recorded 4 points (1/2 free throw, 0/1 two-point, 1/1 three-point), 2 rebounds and 1 assist with 2 turnovers and 1 foul.
European Cup. Regular season. 11th round, 16 December
Trento – Buducnost – 91:90 Overtime (16:17, 26:19, 12:21, 26:23, 11:10)
Trento: Jones (19 points + 2 rebounds + 3 assists), Stewart (14+3+4), Jakimovski (13+8 rebounds), Niang (11+1 rebounds), Yogela (10+1+2), Baee (9+6+1), Bettle (7+2 rebounds), Aldridge (5+6 rebounds), Hassan (3+1 rebounds).
Budućnost: Ferrell (23+5+3), Kovlyar (12+1 assists), Tanaskovich (12+4+1), Sulaimon (11+2+6), Mace (9+5+2), Morgan (7+6 rebounds), Butey (6+5+2), Butsiel (6+8 rebounds), Jovanovic (2+1 rebounds), Slavkovic (2).
Cedevita Olympia – Hapoel Jerusalem – 81:84 (15:20, 18:24, 16:15, 32:25)
Cedevita Olympia: Nikolic (27+2+4), Gibson (18+4+4), Blazic (11+5+2), Girard (8+1+1), Kennedy (6+4+2), Hugaz (5+5+1), McNair (4+2 rebounds), Skara (2+3+1).
Hapoel Jerusalem: Harper (21+2+4), Lamb (14+4+4), Carrington (11+2+3), Winston (8+1 assists), Wiley (8+13 rebounds), James (7+5+1), Smith (6+2 rebounds), Hoover (5+1+2), Skapintsev (4+2+1).
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Source: Sport UA
Ralph Bean is a writer for Sportish. Ralph has written about sports news for the last two years, and is currently an author on the site. He enjoys writing about sports, and hopes to cover more stories in the future.
