Host side U18 Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana started its first-ever Euroleague Basketball Adidas Generation Tournament Ljubljana with a 77-66 victory over U18 Next Generation Team Ljubljana in Group A. Cedevita had a 20-2 run early in the game and never was threatened the rest of the way. Lon Lican collected 18 points and 7 assists to lead the winners while Tomas Belina scored 13 points and Gasper Kocevar picked up 10 points and 10 rebounds. Niv Lempert came off the bench to lead NGL with 13 points with Luis Garcia scoring 11 points and Alvaro Folgueiras tallied 10 points and 11 rebounds and Halvin Dzellat chipped in 4 points and 10 rebounds.
Host Cedevita beats NGL for first win
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Host Cedevita beats NGL for first win
Host side U18 Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana started its first-ever Euroleague Basketball Adidas Generation Tournament Ljubljana with a 77-66 victory over U18 Next Generation Team Ljubljana in Group A. Cedevita had a 20-2 run early in the game and never was threatened the rest of the way. Lon Lican collected 18 points and 7 assists to lead the winners while Tomas Belina scored 13 points and Gasper Kocevar picked up 10 points and 10 rebounds. Niv Lempert came off the bench to lead NGL with 13 points with Luis Garcia scoring 11 points and Alvaro Folgueiras tallied 10 points and 11 rebounds and Halvin Dzellat chipped in 4 points and 10 rebounds.
Kocevar’s free throw opened the scoring while Mario Saint-Supery’s free throw was NGL’s first score after more than 2 minutes. Lican buried two three-pointers at the other end in a 14-0 run to lead 15-1 before Bautista Rodriguez stopped the 4-minute scoreless drought. Cedevita added six straight points and a Luka Smitran three-point play made it 27-8 after 10 minutes. Another triple from Lican pushed the cushion to 30-10. NGL trailed 32-12 when it finally started to score consistently with Folgueiras scoring 10 points and Lempert picking up five points in a 7-19 surge to pull within 39-31. And the score was 42-31 at intermission.
Rok Popovic’s three-point play pushed the advantage to 16 points - 47-31 - to start the second half. Rodriguez and Garcia hit triples for NGL and four straight points from Garcia trimmed the gap to 54-47. Vukasin Todorovic answered with four points and Cedevita was leading 61-47 after 30 minutes. Kilian Brockhoff started the fourth quarter scoring for NGL but Lican, Belina and Smitran hit three straight triples and the advantage was 72-49 with under 7 minutes left. Cedevita went nearly 4 minutes without a point and NGL trimmed the margin to 72-56, but Todorovic ended the drought with a three-pointer. NGL could not get closer than 11 points in the closing minutes.