Latvian basketball player Artūrs Kurucs remained in reserve on Thursday ULEB Euroleague in the last, 34th round game, while his Vitoria TD Systems Baskonia suffered a loss and said goodbye to hopes of playing in the playoffs.
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With a score of 81:86 (21:25, 23:14, 15:21, 22:26), the Vitoria club recognized the superiority of its direct competitor “Valencia”.
Before the last round of the game, there were 64 different scenarios for how teams could rank from fourth to eighth. The Baskonia team had to win to continue to qualify for the playoffs, but it did not do its job.
In the third quarter, the guests had a nine-point advantage, but the home team cleared it, and in the fourth quarter, the fight was one point. Less than four minutes before the end of regular time, Vanja Marinkovič put Valencia ahead of the Valencian team with two free throws (74:72) and did not regain the reins of Baskonia.
In the ranks of “Baskonia” with 19 points, seven assists and seven provoked violations of the rules, Pierre Henry stood out, Roks Giedraitis scored 17 points, and Akille Polonāra scored 16 points.
Derik Williams had 16 points in the Valencia club, but Clement Prepelich, Mike Tobias, Nikol Kalinich and Boyan Dublevich had 14, 13, 12 and 11 points. Tobias and Dublevich also each have seven rebounds.
Baskonia is in tenth place in the tournament table with 18 wins in 34 games. Valencia is eighth with 19 successes, but will only play in the play-offs if St. Petersburg’s Zenith loses in at least one of its two remaining battles.
Kurucs played 21 Euroleague games this season, scoring a total of 14 points, winning seven rebounds and making eight assists. On average, he spent just over four minutes on the pitch.
Meanwhile Jānis Strēlnieks on Thursday, he scored seven points, while his Moscow CSKA, represented by him, defeated the United States of America in Willerban 88:70 (18:15, 24:21, 16:24, 30:10).
The archer played for 17 minutes and 30 seconds, during which he realized two of the three two-point shots and one of the two long shots. He also won four rebounds, scored three times, made one mistake, violated the rules three times and scored eight efficiency points.
Ife Lundbergs was the most productive for the Muscovites with 23 points, Michael Michael with 21 points and nine rebounds, and Johannes Foitmans with 13 points. Opponents had 23 points in Gershon’s Jabuse account, while Noriss Kouls scored 15 points.
CSKA is second in the tournament table with 23 wins in 33 games.
Prior to that, in another game, the play-off was secured by Real Madrid, which was 93:76 (23:11, 26:25, 18:21, 26:10) superior to Istanbul’s Fenerbahce Beko.
Nicolas Laprovitola stood out in the Madrid team with 18 points and ten assists, Fabien Cozer scored 20 points and Gabriel Deck had 19 points. Nando de Colo scored 23 points for the home team, and Lorenzo Brown had 16 points.
Meanwhile, the victory in the last Euroleague game of the season was won by the Lithuanian club Kaunas “Žalgiris”, which at home with the result 93:78 (27:14, 25:33, 22:13, 19:18) prevailed over Athens “Panathinaikos Opap”.
Luks Lekavičs scored 20 points for the home team, but 18 points were at the expense of Tomas Velkaps. Nemanja Nedovičs scored 17 points for the guests, but Ben Bentil scored 13 points.
In another duel, Berlin’s “Alba” won the “Crvena zvezda mts” in Belgrade with the result 81:58 (24:22, 25: 8, 17:16, 15:12).
The German club scored 17 points and eight assists for Peiton Siva, 13 points for Simon Fontekio and 12 points for Markus Erikson. Marko Simonovičs scored 12 points for the Serbian team, but Lendrija Nnoko had seven points and 11 rebounds.
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