Joventut Badalona grabbed its third consecutive victory in Group A by topping Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar 100-77 at Palau Olimpic de Badalona on Wednesday. Joventut improved to 7-2 in the standings while Lokomotiv dropped to 6-3.
Brodziansky leads Joventut in rout of Lokomotiv, 100-77
Vladimir Brodziansky led the winners with a career-high 31 points, Pau Ribas added 18, Ferran Bassas 12, Joel Parra 11 and Guillem Vives 10 for Joventut. Errick McCollum led Lokomotiv with 23 points, Stanislav Ilnitskiy added 14, Johnathan Motley 13 and Darius Thompson 10 scored for the visitors. Joventut led 50-46 at halftime before the hosts found a go-to guy in Brodziansky, who scored 12 third-quarter points. Parra and Ribas also stepped up to break the game open, 80-58, at the end of the quarter as Lokomotiv never recovered.
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Motley got Lokomotiv going with a layup and Ilnitskiy soon added a corner triple for a 0-5 lead. Ribas stepped up with a backdoor layup but Motley and McCollum boosted the lead to 2-9. After Vives hit a triple, Thompson found Ilnitskiy for a jumper and scored off a steal for a 5-13 Lokomotiv margin. Ribas kept pushing Joventut and Brodziansky scored down low to make it 12-16. Brandon Paul bettered McCollum's floater with a bomb from downtown and Ferran Bassas also hit a triple to bring the hosts closer, 18-20. Motley and Kidd fueled a 0-6 run, but Parra and Derek Willis brought Joventut within 22-27 after 10 minutes.
Parra scored in the low post early in the second quarter and Bassas buried back-to-back three-pointers to put Joventut ahead, 30-27, after a 12-1 run. Thompson took over with a coast-to-coast slam, but Parra matched it with a layup, A red-hot Bassas added a shot from beyond the arc and Ante Tomic hit a jump hook for a 37-29 score. Motley and McCollum stepped up for Lokomotiv. Tomic hit a jumper and Ribas added a coast-to-coast layup for a 41-37 Joventut lead. Kidd answered with a power basket but McCollum and Thompson helped Lokomotiv take a 43-44 lead. Ribas downed a big three-pointer and got help from Brodziansky to give Joventut a 50-46 lead at halftime.
Brodziansky took over with a three-point play soon after the break. Ilnitskiy banked in a fadeaway jumper and soon added a three-pointer in a 0-7 Lokomotiv run, as Tomic left the game with a double technical foul. Vives answered from downtown and Brodziansky added a jump hook for a 58-53 Joventut lead. Motley scored in the paint but an outstanding Brodziansky gave Joventut its first double-digit lead, 66-55. McCollum buried a jumper, but Parra followed a driving layup with a jump hook and Ribas fired in his third three-pointer to break the game open, 74-58. Willis soon added a layup and Ribas scored in penetration to make it 80-58 after 30 minutes.
Brodzianskiy kept pushing Joventut early in the fourth quarter and his jump hook capped a mammoth 18-1 run that sealed the outcome, 84-58. Kidd buried a three-pointer and McCollum bettered Pep Busquets's floater with a three-point play, as Joventut tried to use longer possessions to run the game clock down. Willis buried a three-pointer before Lokomotiv called timeout down 94-66 with less than 6 minutes left. Little changed after that, as Joventut kept a safe margin until the final buzzer, allowing its fans to celebrate a convincing win.