Latvian basketball player Jānis Blūms on Monday scored five points in the Italian Super Cup game, helping Reggio di Emilia “Unahotels” team to celebrate the victory.
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The team represented by Bloom defeated “Vanoli” of Cremona in the group B game with the result 78:71 (18:26, 19:14, 11:19, 30:12).
The Latvian basketball player spent 28 minutes and 19 seconds on the court, during which he broadcast one of the three two-point shots and one of the four long shots in the basket. He also won two rebounds, made three assists, made one mistake, broke the rules three times and scored one efficiency point.
The winner with 22 points was Joshua Bostik, who also stopped during his career “VEF Riga” a team.
With two victories in four games, the Reggio di Emilia team takes second place in the group.
Artūrs Strautiņš also scored five points and Ingus Jakovičs added three points, conceding Kant’s Acqua S. Bernardo with 72:81 (18:22, 17:19, 19:21, 18:19) “team.
Strautiņš played for 13 minutes and 44 seconds, taking all five free throws, but missing one two-point throw and a “threesome”. The attacker won four rebounds, returned one assists, made two errors, violated the rules three times, provoked two remarks and scored four efficiency points.
In the 16 minutes and 49 seconds he played, Jakovich hit one of the three long shots in the basket, but missed all five two-point shots. His account also includes three assists, three notes and one provoked rule violation.
Argentine basketball legend Luis Skola stood out in the unit represented by Latvians with 26 points.
Varese’s team with one victory in four games in group A takes the third place.
All 16 teams are participating in the Italian Super Cup, which plans to start in the A series of the local championship this season. The teams are divided into four groups, but after the group tournament there will be semi-finals, for which the winner of each group will qualify.
The Final Four tournament will be played from September 18 to 20.
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