La Laguna Tenerife triumphed this Wednesday at home in its debut in the FIBA Champions League against Turkish Karsiyaka (76-87) in a game that was tied in the first three quarters, but that the islanders ended up deciding in the last ten minutes.
SUMMARY
76 – Karsiyaka (23+16+18+19). Web III (15), Sipahi (11), McDermott (5), Boutsiele (8), Jefferson (9) -inicial-, McCollum (16), Russell (8), Sayili (-), Yasar (4).
87 – La Laguna Tenerife (23+23+19+22). Fipitaldo (16), Kramer (8), Scrubb (5), Doornekamp (5), Guerra (20) -initial-, Willis (19), Diop (-), Costa (-), Sastre (9), Shermadini ( 3) y Abromaitis (2).
Referees: Rosso (FRA), Vulic (CRO) and Aunkrogers (LAT).
incidences: First match of the regular phase of the FIBA Champions League, played at the Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Karsiyaka Spor Salonu (Türkiye), in front of about three thousand people.
The island team reacted correctly the moment their rival pressed and got it right. He knew how to be patient and in the final stretch he brought out his best version to take the victory in this first game of Group C.
Fran Guerra and Payton Willis, with 20 and 19 points respectivelywere two key players in the team’s victory today in Türkiye.
Karsiyaka started more involved in the game than La Laguna Tenerife and warned that they wanted to control the match from the beginning (11-5, min.4), until the exterior success of the Tenerife team arrived, starting with Kramer (11-8 ) and followed by Fitipaldo and Doornekamp’s points from outside the three-point line.
With the match already balanced, the two teams tried to control the game, but they did not succeed and they reached the first break with a tie at 23.
The Turkish team, as in the first quarter, came out with greater intensity and a triple from Russell, accompanied by eight points from McCollum, put the game back under control against a Tenerife team with a lack of defensive intensity. The differences in this second quarter reached seven points (38-31, min. 6).
But the island group knew how to react again. By improving your defense. Fran Guerra was also successful in attack, as was Joan Sastre, who knew how to find, more easily, incursions towards the basket.
Change of dominator and Tenerife managed to go into halftime with a small lead of seven points (39-46).
The island team did not want surprises at the beginning of the third quarter and pressed their defense to prevent the rival from taking the initiative. The visitors responded well to the locals’ success and thus maintained that advantage between five and eight points, even nine after a triple by Willis (45-54, min.23)
It would be in the final moments of this third quarter when Karisyaka would manage to take advantage of Tenerife’s doubts and errors to equalize the score again (55-57, min. 27).
A visiting timeout meant redirecting the situation again and reaching the end of this third quarter with a difference of eight points (57-65.
Tenerife was the clear dominator in the last quarter. Karisikaya’s strength failed against an island team better positioned on the court and taking good advantage of their attacking actions (70-81, min.37).
In the final stretch of the match, Kariyaka made the last attempt to turn the match around with successful actions by Sipahi, Web III and McCollum, but it was already insufficient to win the match.
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