Valencia Basket dominated on the boards and was on fire from downtown in beating Mincidelice JL Bourg en Bresse 77-88 on Tuesday.
Telling numbers: Valencia’s great shooting, rebounding made the difference

Valencia left it to late to take care of business in a game that was tied with 4 minutes remaining, but the underlying numbers show what a strong game the visitors played. Valencia not only outrebounded Bourg 20-37, but allowed the home team to take a mere 2 offensive rebounds. Bourg missed 29 shots and only grabbed the rebound on 6.9% of them! Mike Tobey alone had 4 offensive rebounds for Valencia, which as a team collected 10.
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Klemen Prepelic had a strong three-point shooting game with 5 triples from 11 attempts, but his shooting rate was lower than the rest of the team. Altogether Valencia’s players made 15 threes at a 51.7% conversion rate. It was tied for the second-most threes by the club this season and was the second-most accurate shooting night too. Xabi Lopez-Arostegui shot 3 for 3 from downtown for Valencia and Jaime Pradilla was 2 for 2. Eight Valencia players made threes.