Latvian basketball player Marc Steinberg scored ten points Tuesday in the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) Champions League in the match, but did not save the Spanish club Manreza “Baxi” from the first defeat of this tournament.
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In the fourth match of the tournament, “Baxi” lost at home to basketball players of Lisbon “Benfica” with the result 82:92 (17:27, 16:21, 27:21, 22:23).
In this duel, Steinberg spent 21 minutes and 33 seconds on the court, during which he made two of three two-point shots and two of four long shots. The Latvian also had one rebound, one assist, four fouls, two steals, a negative +/- (-5) and 11 points of efficiency, which was tied for third place on the team.
Jerick Harding was the home team’s leading scorer with 18 points, while Aaron Broussard had 23 points for opponents.
On Wednesday, in the same subgroup, the Latvian champion”FEV Row” will visit the basketball players of Limoges CSB.
In subgroup F, the teams from Manreza and Lisbon achieved three victories in four games each, “VEF Rīga” won one game out of three, while the Limoges team lost in all three duels.
Meanwhile Artūrs Strautiņš scored five points and grabbed four rebounds when the Italians of UnaHotels of Reggio Emilia defeated the Turkish Pinar Karsiyak at home 74-70 (19-13, 16-20, 22-20, 17-17) in a meeting of the Group B. .
In Group B, Bonn’s “Telekom” unit managed two wins in three games, the teams of Reggio Emilia and Karšijaka each won two in four games, while AEK Athens, represented by Jānis Strēlnieks, are fourth with one victory in three duels.
Five points were also scored by Jānis Bērziņš, whose Warsaw representative “Legia” defeated Ostend “Filou” 71:66 (24:19, 20:19, 14:16, 13:15) in the away match of group C.
In subgroup C, the Holon team “Hapoel” had three wins in three matches, the basketball players “Galatasaray” from Istanbul had two hits in three duels, while the Warsaw and Ostend clubs each won in the four matches played .
On the other hand Kaspar Berzins scored two points and hit three field goals in a game in which he represented and the head coach of the Latvian national team Luca Banki led “Strasbourg” prevailed over Bursa “Tofas” away with the result of 79:75 (22:20, 14:25, 17:16, 26:14).
With three victories in four games, Strasbourg basketball players are the leaders of subgroup A, the Murcia UCAM team has two victories in three games, and the Sombatheya clubs “Falco” and “Tofas” have one victory in three and four games respectively.
The format of the competition remains unchanged: 32 teams compete in eight groups of four units. The group winners advance straight to the round of 16, while the runners-up and third-placed teams compete in the “play-in” series in January 2023.
In the quarterfinals, the teams will play duels to win two in April, and the season will conclude with the “Final Four” tournament in May.
