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Latvian basketball player Andrejs Gražulis on Sunday scored 12 points in an Italian A-series game, but that was not enough for Trieste’s Allianz team to celebrate victory.
Trieste basketball players gave way to Brindisi’s Happy Casa with a score of 76:79 (22:23, 18:22, 21:16, 15:18) on their field.
Gražulis spent 23 minutes and four seconds on the court, during which he sent six of the nine two-point shots to the basket, but missed all three long shots. Koknesietis also won seven rebounds, scored twice, blocked one shot, scored five points and scored 11 efficiency points.
For homeowners with 14 points and eight rebounds, Dāvide Alviti was the most productive.
It has already been reported that Ingus Jakovičs scored 13 points on Saturday and Artūrs Strautiņš added nine points and nine rebounds, while his representative Varese “Openjobmetis” lost to Bologna “Virtus” team with 73:85. Meanwhile, Jānis Blūms scored three points in Reggio di Emilia’s “UnaHotels” victory 83:67 over Brescia’s “Germani”.
Reggio di Emilia’s team with six wins in five games is sixth, while the Trieste and Varese teams have achieved two successes, giving them ninth and 11th place respectively. There are 16 teams playing in the A series this season.
Spain
Latvian basketball player Rolands Šmits scored 15 points in the Spanish Premier League (ACB) game on Sunday, helping the Barcelona team to celebrate the victory.
The Barcelona beat the Andorran MoraBanc team with 82:71 (19:12, 22:18, 22:24, 19:17) on their field.
After a cure from Covid-19, Nikola Mirotičs returned to the square on Sunday, but Šarūns Jasikēvičs entrusted the place in the starting five to Smith, justifying the hopes placed in Valmiera.
The Latvian basketball player spent 20 minutes and 14 seconds on the court, during which time he realized four of the five two-point shots, two of the four long shots and one of the two free throws.
He also won two rebounds, intercepted one ball, violated the rules once, provoked two remarks and scored 15 efficiency points.
Schmidt was the most successful player of the match. Mirotičs also scored 14 points for the Barcelona team, but Nik Kalates had 12 assists.
It has already been reported that on Saturday, the “Joventut” of Badalona, represented by Artūrs Žagars, beat the “TD Systems Baskonia” of Vitoria, represented by Artūrs Kurucs, at 83:82. Kurucs played for more than ten minutes, but did not score points while Žagars remained on the reserve bench.
The game of the seventh round with the participation of UCIN of Murcia represented by Rinalds Malmanis and “San Pablo” of Burgos is planned for November 4.
With six wins in six games, the Real Madrid and Tenerife Iberostar teams are at the top of the ACB standings. Barcelona’s basketball players with five wins in six duels are third, the Badalona club with five successes in seven battles is fifth, the Vitoria team has won four games in seven games and is seventh, while the Murcia team has achieved three successes in six matches.
Due to the Covid-19 team, ACB have played a different number of games.
United Basketball League
Latvian basketball players Rolands Freimanis and Jānis Bērziņš scored 15 and 14 points in the United League game, respectively, on Sunday, but the Polish team Zelona Gura “Stelmet Enea” represented by them suffered a loss.
The unit represented by Latvians in their square with the result 99: 114 (25:28, 26:22, 25:32, 23:32) acknowledged the superiority of Krasnodar’s “Lokomotiv-Kuban”.
Freimanis played for 24 minutes and 48 seconds, playing six of the seven two-point shots and one of the three “threes” in the basket. He also had one rebound, one assists, two errors, one intercepted ball, four remarks, one provoked foul and 13 efficiency points.
Meanwhile, Bērziņš spent 25 minutes and 31 seconds on the court, realizing both two two-point shots, three of the seven long shots and his only “penalty”. He also won four rebounds, scored twice, made one mistake, blocked one throw, made two remarks, provoked one foul and scored 16 efficiency points.
Jeffrey Grossele was the scorer with 18 points. Elans Williams was unstoppable to his opponents, who scored 34 points and won 13 rebounds, but 11 points and 17 assists were scored by Lithuanian Mantas Kalnietis.
With four losses in four games, “Stelmet Enea” takes the last, 13th place in the tournament table.
As in the previous season, 13 teams will start in this regular tournament – nine from Russia, as well as one unit each from Estonia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Poland. For the second season in a row, the VEF Rīga team is not participating in the tournament.
The 2019/2020 league season ended prematurely due to a pandemic caused by the coronavirus, without finding out the champion. At the time of the termination of the championship, the first place was taken by the Khimki of the Moscow region, but the second place was taken by the Moscow CSKA.
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