### Joventut Badalona head coach Carles Duran:

"Venice is a great team. I think we played well, but in the last minute or so, we did some stupid things. But I am happy because with good effort and played good basketball. I think it was a very good game. It was important for us to stay high in the standings in this group. But this group is very competitive. It is difficult to play great basketball every game, but this is a good win for us tonight."

### Umana Reyer Venice head coach Walter De Raffaele:

"It was a great game, both teams played good basketball. We lost because of the details, 1 three-pointer made, 1 foul called. That's basketball. They won, congratulations to Joventut, but also congratulations to my team."

### Joventut Badalona forward Henry Ellenson:

"They hit a tough shot to tie with 6 seconds left and we did a good job of inbounding the ball quick. Pep pushed the floor and was able to find me in transition, and you know what, it was a lot of fun to hit that shot and a lot of fun to get that win. It is just a great feeling right now. They are a great team, they played tough all night, we had to grind that one out. We switched leads back and forth there in the fourth quarter. So, to be able to protect home court and to come out with a win in front of this crowd, it was awesome."

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Coach Duran, Joventut: 'This group is very competitive'

Joventut Badalona v Umana Reyer Venice (2022-12-14T19:15:00.000Z)

### Germani Brescia head coach Alessandro Magro:

"For sure it’s a win to give us confidence. We lost the last four games and it was important to show we are able to compete on the road. It’s a good boost in confidence for us.

“It was an important game for both teams because we are at the bottom of the standings. We came here in a period when Cedevita was playing pretty good. Now they have a complete roster it’s a totally different team, very offensive-oriented. We were able to take away some three-point shots. They usually shoot the ball 30 times, today it was just 22. Edo Muric was killing us, an incredible performance, and like every game we have played until now, we decided the game in one possession. 

"It was a very tough game and I’m very proud of my players. Everyone who stepped on the court gave his all, it doesn’t matter if it was for 3 minutes or 25. Everybody fought really hard to get the win. We had the will and desire to get the win. We came by bus and it’s a long trip so I would like to thank the club who allowed us to come two days ago to prepare for the game.”

### Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana head coach Jurica Golemac:

“We didn’t have focus for 40 minutes. We had a 7-point lead in the last 2 and a half minutes but we didn’t manage to keep it with some very not smart mistakes in defense to give them a couple of easy free throw shots to get back in the game. In the end, we missed an open shot, congratulations to Brescia."

### Germani Brescia guard CJ Massinburg:

“It was really important. We were struggling in EuroCup. This was a good win on the road against a good team. We stayed and fought together and we’re going to keep building on this. I stepped up when my team needed me. In the last domestic game, we went on a cold stretch with 4 minutes left in the game when we needed somebody to step up. I said, man, I don’t want that to ever happen again, and tonight we were able to get it done."

Coach Magro, Brescia: 'This win gives us confidence'

Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana v Germani Brescia (2022-12-14T19:00:00.000Z)

### Prometey Slobozhanske head coach Ronen Ginzburg:

"We changed \[our\] attitude \[in the second half\]. We got really aggressive on defense, it started with local players Lukashov and Lypovyy, and continued with the foreigners. Attitude, that's it. Balvin and Kennedy asked for a replacement, they were tired. They played great today.

"These were the best scoring teams in the EuroCup, and the team that would start playing defense would win this game. And we started playing defense in the second half."

### U-BT Cluj-Napoca head coach Mihai Silvasan:

"I spoke the guys at halftime, if we play with the same intensity in the second half, we have no chance to win. We did the same and they played with a much higher intensity. For us it is just embarrassing to lose the last two quarters with a 29-point margin. Congrats to Prometey for the win. For us, we just need to be better. we cannot present any type of game like we did in the second half.

"We need to look good at ourselves and we need to play with more pride, for sure. We still have huge expectations from this competition. It is just one game, but the way we lost should it put us in a position to think about at a lot of things."

### Prometey Slobozhanske center Ondrej Balvin:

"I am finally trying to understand my teammates and getting along with them. It's a really new team. Also I came from Japan where it is completely different basketball. I think me and my teammates are just getting to know each other and they are able to find me and I am able to provide for them. You win the game with defense, and that's what happened in the second half. We can score 105 points and we can still lose. That can happen. But in the second half, we played defense together as a team, and that was key for our victory."

Coach Ginzburg, Prometey: 'Attitude, that's it'

Prometey Slobozhanske v U-BT Cluj-Napoca (2022-12-14T17:00:00.000Z)

### Erdem Can, Turk Telekom Ankara head coach

"First of all, I don't agree \[that the first half and second half were vastly different\]. I would say first quarter and the rest of the game. In the first quarter we only had 13 points. Offensively, we found open shots but couldn’t make them. We stuck with our principles and played aggressively, and then we found our rhythm by making the shots and attacking the rim. Finally, our guys were really figures, so it's a really important win for us."

### Ryan Schmidt, London Lions head coach

"We didn't compete tonight. Credit to them, that's a really good team, but we didn’t compete. That's embarrassing."

### Nathan Sestina, Turk Telekom Ankara forward

"Individually \[I succeeded by\] just trusting what I do each day and having the belief from the coaching staff and my teammates as well. They all believe in me and pump me up before the game. As a team, executing what Coach wants from start to finish. We had a bad first half last week, so we had to make sure that didn’t let that happen this week and just execute what Coach needs."

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Coach Can, Turk Telekom: 'We stuck with our principles and played aggressively'

Turk Telekom Ankara v London Lions (2022-12-14T17:00:00.000Z)

Prometey Slobozhanske shifted its potent offense into a top gear and downed U-BT Cluj-Napoca 105-82 on Wednesday night behind a strong second half. In a battle of a pair of EuroCup newcomers, Prometey used 15 three-pointers and six double-digit scorers to get back to winning ways, snapping a two-game losing streak and improving to 4-4 in Group B. Cluj remained winless in its four road games and dropped to 3-5 on the season.

Ondrej Balvin had 23 points and 6 rebounds, while DJ Kennedy tallied 23 points, 7 assists, 5 rebounds and 4 steals. Gian Clavell finished with 17, Oleksand Lypovyy netted 13, Issuf Sanon scored 12 and Denys Lukashov had 10 points in the victory. Patrick Richard posted 19 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists for the visitors. Leonardo Meindl scored 17, Andrija Stipanovic had 12 of his 14 points in the first half, and Emanuel Cate also scored 14 in a losing effort.

Prometey opened the game hot from long range. The hosts made five of their first six attempts in less than 5 and a half minutes, including a pair from Sanon and one from Kennedy that made it 22-16. But Cluj had its offense clicking early, especially from close range. Stipanovic strung together 8 points bridging the first and second quarters to put Cluj up, 28-31. Stipanovic scored 4 more points, and Victor Sanders a triple to extend it to 33-40, but Kennedy and Lypovyy quickly erased the deficit. Cluj, however, did well getting to the line and restored the lead, taking 51-57 into halftime. 

Kennedy fueled a 9-0 run for the hosts early in the third quarter to re-take the lead, 60-59, and then Balvin took over, stringing together 10 points, including a triple and a three-point play, to help make it 79-67.  Richard and Stipanovic cut it to 79-72 at the end of the third, but Lypovyy netted 2 more three-pointers for the hosts early in the fourth, fueling a 12-2 run to open a 91-74 margin. Two triples from Clavell broke the 20-point barrier, 99-79, as Prometey was cruising to victory.

Prometey's offense slams Cluj with big second half

Turk Telekom Ankara is now leading the standings in Group B in this year's 7DAYS EuroCup after beating the London Lions 102-74 at Ankara Spor Salonu on Wednesday evening. This victory advanced Turk Telekom to 6-2, whereas London saw its three-game winning run come to an end as it dropped to 4-4.

Nathan Sestina and Jerian Grant were Turk Telekom's star performers on the night, with the former scoring 20 points and the latter contributing 18 points and 9 assists. The hosts also had Erkan Yilmaz score 15 points, and Axel Bouteille and Tyrique Jones had 13 apiece. For London, Sam Dekker and Kosta Koufos were the team's leading scorers with 20 and 13 points, respectively, while both also grabbed 7 rebounds.

London came into this contest on the back of a three-game winning run, and it used that momentum in the early stages. Koufos and Dekker were both involved early for the visitors, combining to score six points to open an early 2-6 lead. Turk Telekom soon began to find its feet, though, with Grant coming to the fore with 7 points to swing the momentum, 13-12. In the final minute of the first quarter, however, back-to-back triples by Vojtech Hruban and Dekker helped London end the first 10 minutes ahead, 13-18. London managed to hold its lead until just over seven minutes into the second quarter, with Koufos making life difficult for the hosts in the paint, but turnovers began to hinder the visitors' chances. First, Tony Taylor drained a three-pointer to tie the game, 31-31, with 2:57 to go until halftime. Then, Sestina provided an added boost of energy to give his team the lead, which they held until the break, 40-36. After London had won the first quarter 13-18, Turk Telekom responded by outscoring head coach Ryan Schmidt's team 27-18 in the second. Turk Telekom came out for the second half on fire, with Jones completing an alley-oop play from Taylor to quickly get the fans off their seats once again. Grant began to take more of a back seat for the hosts, with Ridvan Oncel, Yilmaz and Sestina all making big plays, particularly from the three-point line. London trailed by just four points at the break, but midway through the quarter, it was down by 15, 57-42. Jones kept finding a way of grabbing rebounds and putting points on the board, which only aided Turk Telekom's efforts, as it entered the fourth quarter ahead 72-54. Yilmaz and Bouteille continued the scoring for Turk Telekom late on, as it coasted to a 102-74 victory.

Turk Telekom caught fire to down London

Not many players in the 7DAYS EuroCup have done a better job of scoring in recent weeks than ratiopharm Ulm swingman [Karim Jallow](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/eurocup/players/karim-jallow/005422/).

The 25-year-old made his EuroCup debut with FC Bayern Munich as far back as the 2015-16 season, but his first full campaign in the competition came last year with Ulm. Across 18 appearances in 2021-22, half of them as a starter, Jallow averaged 7.1 points on 54.2% two-point shooting and 2.9 rebounds.

Jallow remained at that average during the first four rounds of this season, a span that saw him post 7.3 points and 3.3 rebounds. He made a total of 10 two-point shots during the first four games and averaged a PIR of 6.5.

Since Round 5, however, Jallow has drastically improved his scoring. He nearly doubled his total of two-pointers made in a Round 5 game against Joventut Badalona, when 7 of his 12 two-point shots dropped en route to 14 points, his first double-digit scoring game of the season.

Jallow followed that up with the best game of his EuroCup career so far. In a 105-106 road win at Prometey Slobozhanske, Jallow finished with a career-high 24 points on a perfect shooting night from the field, going 7-of-7 from two-point range and 2-of-2 from deep. He also pulled down 5 rebounds and recorded a career-high PIR of 29.

Who's Hot: Karim Jallow ratiopharm Ulm

Last week, Jallow continued his impressive set of performances after scoring 13 points, grabbing 4 rebounds and dishing 2 assists, yet it came in a tough 108-78 road loss at Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana.

Over the last three games, Jallow has averaged 17.0 points, which is more than double the figure he posted during the first four rounds of the season. He has also done it on 72.0% shooting, in addition to pulling down 3.7 rebounds. Only 10 players have scored more points since Round 5 than Jallow's 51.

Jallow will try to continue his hot streak on Wednesday night as Ulm hosts Mincidelice JL Bourg en Bresse, who has a EuroCup-best 6-1 record. Should Jallow perform as he has done in the last three rounds, it would go a long way towards helping Ulm take down Bourg and register the team's fourth win of the season.

Who's Hot: Karim Jallow, ratiopharm Ulm

After scoring 15 points in the third quarter against last season’s 7DAYS EuroCup runner-up, Derek Willis of Umana Reyer Venice walked off with the Round 7 MVP honor, and he’s confident that his third team in the competition aspires to great things this season as he said to Eurohoops just before the clash with his former team Joventut Badalona.

The last time Frutti Extra Bursaspor played a 7DAYS EuroCup game in Italy, it didn’t go well for Dusan Alimpijevic’s team. Virtus was at home, with its famous crowd, and the black-and-white team lifted the trophy in Bologna.

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By coming out on top 79-71 in overtime against Buducnost VOLI Podgorica on Tuesday, Gran Canaria maintained its 100% record at home and ensured a continued upwards trajectory in Group B.

Gran Canaria continued its rise in Group B

On Tuesday night, Gran Canaria and Buducnost VOLI Podgorica faced off at Gran Canaria Arena in a battle between the two teams at the top of Group B. Entering Round 8, the hosts were in second place and the visitors in first, yet Gran Canaria's 79-71 overtime win meant that it leap-frogged Buducnost to lead the way in the standings.

By coming out on top, Gran Canaria maintained its 100% record at home – it has won all four of its games at Gran Canaria Arena this season – and ensured a continued upwards trajectory by recording its second win in succession. Those back-to-back wins followed a surprise 75-72 defeat to Dolomiti Energia Trento in Round 6. But that proved a singular blemish. Since Round 2, Gran Canaria has been on a 5-1 run to rise in the standings. 

There have been some impressive wins in that run, but in the last two games, head coach Jaka Lakovic has led his players to victories over Turk Telekom Ankara and Buducnost, both of whom came into Round 8 with joint-best records of 5-2.

Gran Canaria - Buducnost VOLI Podgorica | Round 8 Highlights | 2022-23 7DAYS EuroCup

Although Turk Telekom has the opportunity to climb above Gran Canaria and go into first place with a win over the London Lions this Wednesday night based on overall point differential, Coach Lakovic's side is one of the most in-form teams in the 7DAYS EuroCup and is giving its fans plenty of reason to dream.

Entering the 2022-23 season, Gran Canaria was viewed as one of the favorites to contend for the EuroCup title. There are still some aspects that need to be improved upon, but the last two wins and the way in which they came – clicking on offense in Ankara before showing grit and determination against Buducnost – should provide fans with even more confidence.

What's more, while Andrew Albicy and John Shurna both shined during the overtime period against Buducnost, and big men Khalifa Diop and Aleksander Balcerowski did so in regulation, the likes of AJ Slaughter, Vitor Benite and Damien Inglis can all play better than they did in Round 8. Gran Canaria seems to have found a way to keep winning, and that's a scary prospect for the rest of the teams in Group B.