Virtus Segafredo Bologna went on the road to beat Umana Reyer Venice 72-83 in a clash between Italian League foes in Group B on Wednesday night. 

Virtus beats Italian League foe Reyer, 72-83

The win gave Virtus a regular-season sweep of Reyer and improved it to 8-6 in the fourth place in the standings, while Reyer dropped to 7-6 and fifth place. Virtus took control in the first quarter behind Daniel Hackett playing in his Virtus debut, and never relinquished the lead with big man Mam Jaiteh and playmaker Milos Teodosic in main roles. Reyer was within a single point several times in the third quarter, but Virtus did not allow a single field goal in more than 4 minutes to open the fourth quarter to win the game. Jaiteh shined with 24 points plus 12 rebounds, and Teodosic had 11 points and 13 assists. Isaia Cordinier also scored in double figures with 10 points, while Hackett finished with 8. Jordan Theodore netted 18 points for Reyer, Stefano Tonut scored all 14 of his points in the second half and Julyan Stone added 11 in defeat.

Post-game quotes: Metropolitans vs. Hamburg

### Boulogne Metropolitans 92 head coach Vincent Collet:

“First of all, they were missing some players, so that changed the scenario of the game. We played better defense, especially on Homesley. We stopped their rhythm, of course, he could have made more shots, we didn’t give him the left often, and offensively we shared the ball very well in the first half. They improved in the second half, defending the passing lanes, and we made a few mistakes.”

### Hamburg Towers Head Coach Pedro Calles:

“We have to learn from this game. This is why we came here to Paris, we didn’t come here for nothing, so we must learn from this. We have to recover some players that could not make it for this game and grow from there... They were better from the very first minute. They scored in fastbreaks from our turnovers, and they controlled all game long.”

### Boulogne Metropolitans 92 center Tomer Ginat:

“It’s good how we played today. It helped us finish the game pretty early so everybody could rest a little bit. We have another game in 48 hours and next week we are going to Belgrade to play one of the hardest games in this competition. We are going to take this time to rest. We focus on Friday right now, but definitely, we will come to Belgrade ready to win.”

### Boulogne Metropolitans 92 forward Lahaou Konate:

“I think we made the difference on defense, we followed the game plan, altogether stayed the same way in defense and shared the ball on offense. I don’t know how many assists we had but I think they were like 25, so it was good. We have to keep the same way in the next games”

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Miralem Halilovic - Boulogne Metropolitans 92 (photo Olivier dAlmeida - Metropolitans) - EC21

This is what the protagonists had to say after the Round 14 showdown between MoraBanc Andorra and Joventut Badalona.

Post-game quotes: Andorra vs. Joventut

### David Eudal, MoraBanc Andorra head coach:

“We were almost dead, but the team showed its character that we want to show until the end of the season. And these people \[the fans\] deserve a win, so I am very proud of everybody. We needed this win. We came from three losses in the \[Spanish League\]. I think we were playing good, practicing very well. And we didn’t achieve the results we deserve, I think. At the end we have this win and, fortunately, we will be with more confidence.”

### Carles Duran, Joventut Badalona head coach:

"Congrats to Andorra and we must focus on what's next. We had 20 turnovers, which was 11 more than Andorra, and they scored 1 point more than us. That’s the game."

### Oriol Pauli, MoraBanc Andorra guard:

“We knew that they would come here to fight, to press us because we beat them twice and they tried to punish, to play hard, but I think that we made a great win today, a character win, and I am proud of my team today. I think today we showed character by winning here at home in a difficult game against a good team and we are really happy about this. From here we have to grow and keep winning.”

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David Eudal - MoraBanc Andorra (photo Martin Imatge - Andorra) - EC21

This is what the protagonists had to say after the Round 14 showdown between Umana Reyer Venice and Virtus Segafredo Bologna.

Post-game quotes: Reyer vs. Virtus

### Sergio Scariolo, Virtus Segafredo Bologna head coach:

"It is a game we can be satisfied with. We came here locked in, we had a pretty good start. Unfortunately, we had to go through our injury number 50 so early in the game. It is really frustrating when you see your guys fall like that. It can take your enthusiasm, your energy away. But we reacted. We had an excellent step up from several players. I think when they came back at the beginning of the third quarter, with their good start and our few pretty childish mistakes, they came back within 1, we were able to respond and go back to a 7 or 8-point lead. Which was extremely important. Besides the third quarter, we had a really good defense tonight. I am pleased with the performance of a few players coming off the bench. Sampson had +11, Cordinier +13, Alibegovic +18, it was extremely important on a night when some players were not performing so well and we had Marco out so early. It was an important game for the EuroCup standings, to get 2-0 against a direct opponent and against a really tough opponent who is playing well."

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

"Congratulations to Virtus, they deserved to win this game. Honestly, I had nothing more to ask of my players today. For the physical condition that we had, they really tried to put everything on the court, technically and tactically, and especially on the physical side. While we had energy, we stayed in the game, then we missed open shots and Virtus attacked us on all our weaknesses. But it is important to keep pushing."

### Daniel Hackett, Virtus Segafredo Bologna guard: 

"It feels great. We had to overcome Marco Belinelli's injury early in the game. That was a big blow for us. But overall, the team fought. We talked to each other, we tried to follow the game plan, and we kept a good offensive team like Venice to 72 points on their home court. That is pretty good. We have some work to do, but for me, I just arrived, I feel happy, it is a good start to start with a win."

Niccolo Mannion - Virtus Segafredo Bologna (photo Alessandro Scarpa - Reyer) - EC21

Slask Wroclaw picked the perfect time to find its aim from long range as it used some uncommon three-point shooting precision to book a 77-68 win over Dolomiti Energia Trento.

Telling numbers: Slask finds aim from outside in big win

The hosts knocked down 8-of-17 triples in picking up a massive victory in its fight for the playoffs. Slask's 47.1% shooting was a drastic improvement on its season percentage of 29.2%, which was last in the league coming into the game. Travis Trice drained all three of his attempts from the outside while Aleksander Dziewa had two triples. The team's 77 points scored were 5.2 more than its average through the first 13 games.

Slask was able to rely on one of its strengths - rebounding - as the home team grabbed 41 rebounds compared to 30 for Trento. Slask leads the competition in defensive rebounds and is ranked second in total rebounds and Kerem Kanter, who finished the game with a double-double (10 points, 12 rebounds) raised his EuroCup-leading rebounding average to 8.7 per game.

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Travis Trice - Slask Wroclaw (photo Wojciech Cebula - Slask) - EC21

Slask Wroclaw picked up a huge victory in its hopes of reaching the playoffs by knocking off Dolomiti Energia Trento 77-68 at home on Wednesday in Group A.

Slask powers past Trento 77-68

Slask grabbed its second win in three games to improve to 3-10 while also locking up the tiebreaker over Trento, which had won these teams’ first matchup 81-77. Aleksander Dziewa paced Slask with a career-high 25 points while Travis Trice had 21 points and 8 assists and Kerem Kanter chipped in 10 points and 12 rebounds. Trento lost its ninth in a row for a 1-13 record despite Jordan Caroline scoring 20 points and Cameron Reynolds adding 11 points.

Dominique Johnson opened the game for the visitors with a jumper before Dziewa made a three-pointer at the other side. Dziewa was just heating up as he added two more baskets and Travis Trice made a triple in a 10-0 run to lead 10-2. Caroline’s long ball stopped the surge but he couldn’t slow down Dziewa, who added another triple and moved to 14 points in the first 4:37 minutes for a 17-10 advantage. The lead swelled to 21-12. Then Trento finished the quarter strong as Toto Forray and Reynolds made three-pointers to make it 23-20 after 10 minutes.

Travis Trice scored the first basket of the second quarter, but Trento’s momentum continued with the next 9 points - including another triple by Forray to pull ahead 25-29. Slask snapped a nearly 4-minute scoreless stretch and Jakub Karolak hit from the outside to put the hosts up 34-31. Trento punched back with a 2-9 spurt to nose ahead 35-40 only to see Slask even it at 40-40 at the break.

Andrea Mezzanotte’s 5 points early in the second half were countered by 4 from Kanter. Then Ivan Ramljak and Trice knocked down three-pointers in an 8-0 run for a 54-45 Slask advantage. Trento tallied the final 4 points to get within 54-49 after 30 minutes.

 

Slask had the better start to the final frame with Kodi Justice’s three-pointer establishing a double-digit lead again at 59-49. Caroline and Reynolds both hit triples for Trento to trim the deficit to 61-57. Trice hit from deep and Ramljak converted a three-point play as part of a 10-2 answer to open the biggest lead, 71-59, with 2:30 minutes to play. Trento tried once more to get back into it with Forray and Diego Flaccadori baskets to make it 71-63 with 98 seconds remaining. But that was the closest the guests would get.

DMitrik Trice - Slask Wroclaw (photo Wojciech Cebula - Slask) - EC21

This is what the protagonists had to say after the Round 14 showdown between Slask Wroclaw and Dolomiti Energia Trento.

Post-game quotes: Slask vs. Trento

### Andrej Urlep, Slask Wroclaw head coach:

“I have to say that we are very happy. We knew what this game was about. We had a really good start. We lost a little bit of our focus at the beginning of the second quarter. We let them come back into the game. Then we played very, very good defense in the third quarter. We were able to build up the lead, and we were able to keep that lead until the end of the game. We did two things: we won and we won by more points than we lost by \[against Trento\]. Congratulations to the players.”

### Emanuele Molin, Dolomiti Energia Trento head coach: 

“Looking at the numbers, Wroclaw deserved to get the win. They shot better than us and they outrebounded us. That was enough to get the lead at the end of the third quarter. My team is struggling. We are experiencing a tough moment of the season. We played without one of our main foreigners. I try to look at the positives. They fought and tried to stay in the game - even with some young players. We need to improve our rebounding. One of the common themes of recent games is our opponents outrebounding us and our turnovers. If we are not able to control this, we are going to struggle a lot.”

 

### Aleksander Dziewa, Slask Wroclaw center:

“We picked up our defense and we picked up a lot of easy points in transition.”

Andrej Urlep - Slask Wroclaw (photo Wojciech Cebula - Slask) - EC21

### Slask Wroclaw player Lukasz Kolenda:

"We have a double motivation before the game against Trento, because if we win this match, we will be very close to the next round. It would be a great success for us and the whole club. Of course, we know that we would not be in this position if Lokomotiv was not suspended from the competition, but now we need to focus on Wednesday's game to increase our chances for the top eight. We know that we have a great chance, the more that Trento is not in the best shape lately. That is why we want to take this opportunity and win this important match."

Here are some insightful comments about the game from the protagonists themselves.

Pe-game quotes: Slask vs. Trento

Lukasz Kolenda - Slask Wroclaw (photo Wojciech Cebula - Slask) - EC21

If history is any indication, Wednesday's clash between the Spanish rivals in Group A – MoraBanc Andorra and Joventut Badalona – promises to be a high-scoring affair.

Head-to-Head: Andorra vs. Joventut

Joventut enters this clash with 7DAYS EuroCup's best defense, one that allows just 69.3 points per game, and holds opponents to league-low 47.5% on two-point shots, as well as a second-lowest 31.9% from three-point range. Andorra also does well defending the perimeter, holding opponents to 32.7% on three-pointers, third-best in the EuroCup, but allows a middle-of-the-pack 52.2% on two-pointers and 80.1 points per game.

However, when these two have met before in the EuroCup, they have found it hard to stop each other.

In three previous EuroCup games between them – two in the 2019-20 season and one in Round 5 earlier this season – it was always the home team that won. Coincidentally, that winning home team always tallied exactly 90 points, too.

Joventut has scored 89 points once and 90 points twice in games against Andorra. Joventut did not shoot particularly well from long range across those three games, but it has gone 56.0% on two-pointers, including 25-for-38 (65.8%) in its 90-80 home victory in Round 5. Joventut also dished 24 assists in that game and committed just 8 turnovers.

However, Andorra was able to dish 21 assists in that Round 5 loss,  which is something it does well when playing against Joventut, averaging 20.3 assists over their three previous EuroCup meetings

Andorra will need its offense to be clicking on Wednesday night, too, because in addition to its EuroCup-best defense, Joventut's offense has been hard to stop in the past three months.

Over nine games since their Round 5 clash, Joventut has only lost once, and enters this contest on a season-best seven-game winning streak.

During that winning run, Joventut is averaging 88.1 points per game and knocking down an impressive 41.2% of its three-point shots while distributing 21.9 assists per game.

During that same stretch of seven games, Andorra has three wins and has posted 80.0 points per game. However, in its last game, a rescheduled Round 9 contest against Slask Wroclaw, Andorra scored 99 points, sinking 13 triples and finishing with 23 assists.

Reproducing that kind of offensive display again would go long ways for Andorra against EuroCup's best defense, which so far this season has led Joventut to the best record in the competition at 11-2.