Bennet Cantu, Fenerbahce Ulker and SLUC Nancy win – Euroleague Group A 4th week Review – Part 1
During the fourth week of the Turkish Airlines Euro league, three games took place in Group A. Here is a brief review of the games:
Bennet Cantu 64 – Olympiacos
Piraeus 63
Giorgi Shermadini hit a game-winning free throw with 7.8 seconds remaining as Bennet Cantu registered its third consecutive home victory with a 64-63 win over Olympiacos on November 9, in Desio, Italy. Cantu improved to 3-1 in
Group A while Olympiacos dropped to 1-3, sharing a fifth-place tie with Bizkaia Bilbao Basket.
Maarten Leunen led Bennet with 12 points and six rebounds while Denis Marconato did not miss a single shot and ended with 10 points and six rebounds. Vassilis Spanoulis led all scorers with 23 points on a perfect 9 for 9 shooting
from free throw line and Marko Keselj had 11 points and four rebounds in the second consecutive defeat for Olympiacos.
Cantu dished out 19 assists, including a team-high six by Andrea Cinciarini while Olympiacos dealt out just eight.
Olympiacos Piraeus got off to a better start and held a 14-9 lead with three minutes to go in the first quarter. Shermadini dunked to cut the margin to three but Martynas Gecevicius hit a pair of free throws to push their lead
back to five, 16-11. Shermadini made a free throw to close the opening period, making it 16-12 after the first 10 minutes of action.
Piraeus continued to keep Cantu at bay in the second period and stretched their lead to seven points, 34-27, with one minute to go in the quarter. Andrea Cinciarini hit a free throw and Gianluca Basile however scored a three-pointer
to cut Olympiacos lead to 34-31 at halftime. Olympiacos managed to maintain a four-point lead, 49-45, after three, but failed to hang on in the fourth.
Bennet improved at both ends of the floor in the fourth quarter and tied the game at 63 in the last moments of the game. Shermadini was fouled while rolling off a screen and he hit the first free throw to get Cantu ahead by one.
Kyle Hines had a chance to win the game for Olympiacos with few seconds remaining but he missed an easy shot from the two-point range.
Fenerbahce Ulker 73 - Bizkaia Bilbao Basket 70
On November 09 at the Bilbao Arena, Fenerbahce Ulker recorded their second straight victory of the Turkish Airlines Euroleague regular season with a 73-70 victory over Bizkaia Bilbao. With this victory, Ulker improved to 2-2 and
strengthened their chances to go into the top 16. Bilbao, meanwhile, has dropped to 1-3, with three consecutive defeats. In order to remain in the competition, they now need to bounce back in their game against the Caja Laboral next week.
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