Jerusalem “Hapoel”, Istanbul “Galatasaray” and Thessaloniki PAOK are one game away from finding out their opponents in the Champions League subgroup G. The Portuguese “Benfica” and the Norsköping “Dolphins” team represented by Edgar Jeromanova for a long time will compete for a place in the group together with the three teams mentioned above. The Swedes managed to overcome the rake of the Danish bears, against which “Ventspils” also hurt their foreheads at one time.
The teams represented by two Latvian basketball players met in the first round of the second qualification group. In the ranks of the Dutch team “Heroes Den Bosch” with Roberts Stumbris, he stood out with 17 scored points (2p. 2p. 5/6, 3p. 2/5, 1p. 1/3), six won balls and five assists in the victory over “Gottingen” – 96:84. The success of the Dutch team cut short the hopes of another Latvian basketball player, Kārļis Šiliņš, about competing in the group stage of the Champions League. Šiliņš, who spent the last season in “Liepāja”, scored nine points (2p. 3/4. 3p. 1/2), grabbed two rebounds and finished the game with five personal notes.
The next test for Stumbra’s team will be the Italian team “Brindisi”, against whom they will have to fight in the second match of the qualifying tournament on Friday.
FIBA Champions League qualification on September 27
Gr. Game Result 1. Bakken Bears (Denmark) – Norrkoping Dolphins (Sweden) 68:78 Benfica (Portugal) – AEK Larnaca (Cyprus) 87:592. Cholet Basket (France) – Antwerp Giants (Belgium) 76:72 FMP (Serbia) – Varese (Italy) 71:73 Brindisi (Italy) – CSM Oradea (Romania) 77:74 Heroes Den Bosch (Netherlands) – Göttingen (Germany) 96:84
2023-09-27 22:14:00
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