Joventut Badalona became the first team to beat Turk Telekom Ankara in the Turkish capital. Here is how they did it.
Telling numbers: Joventut comes close to its assist record
Joventut took extremely good care of the ball, finishing the game with 29 assists. It was 1 shy of the club's record in the 7DAYS EuroCup; it had 30 against Guildford Heat on December 18, 2007, and not far away from the EuroCup record shared by Aykon TED Ankara Kolejliler and Khimki Moscow Region with 34 assists in respective games against Dinamo Banco di Sardegna Sassari and CEZ Basketball Nymburk in 2014. Guillem Vives was off-target in making just 1 of 7 three-pointers, but had 9 assists without turnovers to play a key role in this game.
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Turk Telekom finished the game with 19 assists and 16 turnovers. Joventut committed just 10 for a fantastic assist-to-turnover ratio of 2.9. It was the second-best mark in club history; Joventut dished 3 assists for every turnover earlier this season, in Round 5 against MoraBanc Andorra. Joventut shot the ball much better inside the arc and that was another big key to this game. The visitors buried 20 of 33 two-point shots (60.6% 2FG) and limited Turk Telekom to just 12-of-27 shooting inside the arc (44.4% 2FG).