Name: Aris Midea Thessaloniki-Valencia Basket | Round 7 Highlights | 2024-25 BKT EuroCup
Channel: Euroleague Basketball

Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem overcame important absences to cruise past an injury-hit Umana Reyer Venice by grabbing a comfortable 94-66 victory in Round 7 of the 2024-25 BKT EuroCup campaign on Wednesday. 

Depleted Jerusalem blows past undermanned Reyer, 94-66

Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem overcame important absences to cruise past an injury-hit Umana Reyer Venice by grabbing a comfortable 94-66 victory in Round 7 of the 2024-25 BKT EuroCup campaign on Wednesday. Jared Harper, Nimrod Levi, Austin Wiley, Justin Smith and Kenneth Smith all missed out for the hosts, while Reyer disputed the game without the services of Xavier Munford, Tyler Ennis, Mfiondu Tshimanga Kabengele and Aamir Simms.

After a balanced first quarter that ended with Jerusalem leading 24-20, the hosts pulled away in the second and never looked back. With this win, the Israeli side improved its record to 5-2, while Reyer dropped to 2-5.

A pair of Jerusalem players recorded career-highs in scoring, as Noam Dovrat paced his team with 17 points and Or Cornelius added 14. Khadeen Carrington netted 16 and Jeremy Morgan and Yovel Zoosman finished the game with 14 and 12 points, respectively, for the hosts. For Reyer, Kyle Wiltjer netted 18 points, 16 of which were scored in the first quarter. Jordan Parks chipped in with 15 points and Davide Moretti scored 11.

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Wiltjer netted Reyer’s first 7 points, but Carrington scored 5 of his own, Chris Johnson added 3 and Dovrat nailed a triple for a 10-7 Jerusalem lead. Yet, the guests went on a 0-6 run, with Amedeo Tessitori scoring inside, Wiltjer hitting 2 of 2 from the line and Rodney McGruder sinking a layup in transition to put Reyer ahead, 10-13. The hosts responded with an 11-0 surge, including easy finishes from Cornelius and new signing Derek Ogbeide on the break following Reyer turnovers on offense. Wiltjer netted a floater off the glass to end Jerusalem’s run and trimmed the deficit to 21-15. The Reyer forward was hot both from inside and beyond the arc, adding another 5 points to take his tally to 16, as Jerusalem maintained a 24-20 lead after 10 minutes.

The hosts started strong in the second quarter, as Cornelius and Tessitori traded buckets before a triple from Carrington and an Ogbeide layup opened a 32-22 margin. Dovrat nailed one from deep and Yovel Zoosman scored a hard-fought basket to extend Jerusalem’s run to 14-2. Reyer netted just one field goal in the first 6 and half minutes of the second, before Wiltjer came off the bench to score from inside, 38-24. Yet, Jerusalem went on a 7-0 run to extend its lead to beyond 20 points before a layup from Jordan Parks in transition made it 47-29 at halftime.

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The game turned into a back-and-forth affair in the opening stages of the second half, but Jerusalem maintained a 57-36 cushion following triples from Dovrat and Morgan. Carl Wheatle and Moretti nailed back-to-back threes, but Cornelius netted a layup in transition to end Reyer’s momentum, 59-42. An exchange of blows saw Jerusalem push the margin to 69-47, with Morgan netting a triple and Cornelius adding 4 points to his tally. All Reyer managed to do in the last minute of the third was to cut the difference to 69-51 from the line.

Jerusalem started strong in the closing quarter, going on a 12-2 run to practically finish the game off. A Morgan triple followed a midrange jumper from Carrington before 2 three-pointers from Zoosman made it 81-53. Then, Reyer lost its two bigs, Tessitori and Alessandro Lever, both of whom fouled out, before a Dovrat jumper extended Jerusalem’s lead beyond 30 points, 86-55, with the hosts cruising the rest of the way.

Both teams were missing key players for this fixture

Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem v Umana Reyer Venice (2024-11-06T18:00:00.000Z)

Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana and Cosea JL Bourg-en-Bresse battled hard for 40 minutes in a very physical game. Bourg ended up winning 83-88 behind Jean-Marc Pansa's strong contribution. 


Pansa decided back-and-forth battle in Ljubljana

[Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/eurocup/teams/cedevita-olimpija-ljubljana/roster/lju/) and [Cosea JL Bourg-en-Bresse](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/eurocup/teams/cosea-jl-bourg-en-bresse/roster/bou/) battled hard for 40 minutes in a very physical game on Wednesday, which saw [Bourg prevail 83-90 ](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/eurocup/news/bourg-stops-cedevita-83-90/)behind [Jean-Marc Pansa](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/en/eurocup/players/jean-marc-pansa/009552/)'s strong contribution. 

Pansa is playing his first EuroCup season in five years. In his first experience in the competition, he averaged 2.4 points and 1.3 rebounds in 10 games with Nanterre 92 in the 2020-21 campaign and never scored in double digits. After that, Pansa went to play in the French second division for four years, first for Sharks Antibes and then for Boulazac Basket Dordogne.

Cosea Jl Bourg-en-Bresse center Jean-Marc Pansa Pansa had 13 of his 14 points in the final 16 minutes, hitting 4 of 4 two-pointers and 6 of 7 free throws. He added 6 rebounds, a block and 6 fouls drawn for a PIR of 21, a new career high.

Pansa leads Bourg past Cedevita

At age 27, Pansa is at the prime of his career and compensates his lack of experience at this level with hustle, determination and outstanding physicality. He had a strong EuroCup return, going for 16 points in 19 minutes against Veolia Hamburg Towers. Pansa also reached double digits twice before this game, against Umana Reyer Venice and Aris Midea Thessaloniki. He arguably played his best game of the season against Cedevita, making the difference off the bench.

Pansa was limited to just 1 point in the first 24 minutes but made the difference in the second half. He scored 9 points in the next 6 minutes on a layup, a three-point play and 4 free throws to put Bourg in charge, 68-69, at the end of the third quarter. Pansa also played a critical role in the fourth quarter, as his put-back layup in the final seconds allowed Bourg to seal the outcome.

In the end, Pansa had 13 of his 14 points in the final 16 minutes, hitting 4 of 4 two-pointers and 6 of 7 free throws. He added 6 rebounds, a block and 6 fouls drawn for a PIR of 21, a new career high. After two consecutive losses, Bourg was back in track with a prestigious win at Stozice Arena.

"It was a tough game tonight. We had to bounce back because we lost in the last two EuroCup games, especially the last one at home," Pensa said after the game. "The way we defended in the third and fourth quarters was very important for us. We secured the rebounds, and we know that this team has played really tough.

"We just played our game, that's our identity. We are proud of the job we did tonight and now, we have to keep going."

The 27-year-old center had one of his finest games yet for Bourg

Pansa decided the back-and-forth battle in Ljubljana

Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana v Cosea JL Bourg-en-Bresse (2024-11-06T17:30:00.000Z)

Aris Midea Thessaloniki-Valencia Basket | Round 7 Highlights | 2024-25 BKT EuroCup   

Aris Midea Thessaloniki v Valencia Basket (2024-11-06T18:00:00.000Z)

Cosea JL Bourg-en-Bresse returned to winning ways in Group B by downing Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana 83-90 in the Slovenian capital on Wednesday. 


Bourg stops Cedevita, 83-90! 

Cosea JL Bourg-en-Bresse returned to winning ways in Group B by downing Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana 83-90 in the Slovenian capital on Wednesday. Bourg improved to 5-2 in the standings while Cedevita dropped to 4-3. 

Xavier Castaneda paced the winners with 16 points, Jean-Marc Pansa added 14, Jordan Usher had 13 and Brandon Paul 10 for Bourg. Jaka Blazic led Cedevita with 23 points. Devin Robinson added 15 while Devante Jones had 13 for the hosts.

Usher got Bourg going with a three-pointer and Kevin Kokila matched Robinson's jumper with a layup for a 2-5 lead. Blazic struck twice from downtown, Usher downed his second triple and Joel Ayayi's put-back layup restored a 8-10 Bourg lead. Robinson dunked, Castaneda downed a mid-range jumper and Blazic's three-point play gave Cedevita its first lead, 13-12. Ayayi and Blazic traded layups, Maksym Salash hit a mid-range jumper and Rok Radovic tied the game, 17-17, after 10 minutes.

Paul and Adrian Nelson each struck from beyond the arc and Hugo Benitez buried a jumper for a 19-25 Bourg lead early in the second quarter. Blazic scored in transition, Castaneda nailed a rainbow jumper and DJ Stewart's layup kept Olimpija within 23-27. Robinson dunked again, then Stewart followed a jumper with a layup to complete the hosts' comeback, 29-27. Jones ignited the crowd with back-to-back triples and Martynas Geben's layup caused Bourg to call a timeout at 37-29. Castaneda struck from downtown and Salash added a layup to bring the visitors within 37-34. Geben scored again and Usher dunked before Castaneda hit a floater that fixed the halftime score at 39-38.

Robinson buried a triple soon after the break. Kokila dunked, Geben answered with a power layup and Salash sank a triple that got Bourg as close as 45-43. Geben scored again and Aleksej Nikolic erased Kokila's slam with a driving layup. Nikolic kept pacing Cedevita, Pansa and Robinson traded layups and Salash's jump hook drew Bourg within 54-50. Paul downed a three-pointer and Castaneda soon made it a 1-point game. Pansa stepped up to give Bourg a 60-61 lead. Jones sank a floater and Beringer added a put-back slam, but Paul and Maxime Courby kept Bourg in charge, 65-69. Blazic beat the buzzer with a triple to get Cedevita within 68-69 after 30 minutes.

Ayayi scored in transition early in the fourth quarter, Benitez swished a jumper and Courby struck from downtown to boost Bourg's lead to 72-76. Pansa found space for an uncontested dunk, causing Cedevita to call timeout at 72-78. Blazic rescued the hosts with a three-point play, Usher dunked again and Stewart's dunk gave Cedevita hope at 78-80. Robinson took over with a wild slam and Castaneda drew a three-point shooting foul with 37.8 seconds remaining. He hit all 3 attempts, Benitez split attempts and Pansa's put-back layup sealed the outcome down the stretch.

The visitors improved to 3-1 on the road this season

Bourg stops Cedevita, 83-90

Lietkabelis runs past Hamburg, 91-68

7Bet-Lietkabelis Panevezys clicked on all cylinders in beating the visiting Veolia Towers Hamburg 91-68 on Wednesday night. Registering its second straight win, Lietkabelis improved to 2-4 in Group B, while Hamburg dropped to 1-6 on the season, leaving it in last place.

Lietkabelis took control with an 11-2 run bridging the first and second quarters and never looked back. Mantas Rubstavicius led six scorers in double figures with 22 points, while Andrija Stipanovic shined with 11 points, 7 assists and 6 rebounds. Vytenis Lipkevicius also scored 11, while Martynas Varnas, Marko Pecarski and Oleksandr Kovliar each scored 10 in victory. Kur Kuath had 10 points for Hamburg.

Hamburg got its offense going first, with Kenneth Ogbe and Osaro Rich each sinking a three-pointer to open 8-11 lead. But Stipanovic fueled the efforts of the hosts on both ends of the floor, first defensively, then scoring twice from close range, and also setting up a Varnas fastbreak dunk during a 6-0 run. A triple from Kovliar made it 19-15, but Reece had a three-point play for Hamburg while Leif Moeller and Niklas Wimberg each nailed a long jumper, tying the game. A three-point play from Grantas Vasiliauskas made it 24-21 after 10 minutes.

Rubstavicius single-handedly extended the margin to 32-23 in the first 3 minutes of the second quarter by scoring all the points in an 8-0 run, including a pair of three-pointers. Triples from Lipkevicius and his fastbreak layup extended the margin to 42-27 as Hamburg's offense struggled. Wimberg scored a second-chance basket, but Pecarski and Dovis Bickauskis made sure Lietkabelis took a 48-30 advantage, its biggest lead of the half, into halftime.

Ogbe started the second half with a three-pointer, but Rubstavicius and Stipanovic extended the margin some more and a basket from Pecarski made it 56-35. Hamburg was not going to simply go away, showing effort on defense, but Kuath was the only player managing to do some damage offensively before a triple from Moeller cut it to 58-42. Keondre Kennedy and Varnas traded three-pointers before back-to-back threes from Rubstavicius and Lipkevicius in the final 40 seconds of the quarter made it 70-47.

The margin remained in the 20s in the fourth, as Patrick Heckmann and Kovliar traded triples. Wimberg also had a three for the visitors, but Gabrielius Maldunas dunked on a fastbreak to make it 75-53. Kennedy, Brae Ivey and Ogbe scored for Hamburg, but only cutting it to 77-59 midway through the fourth. However, Rubstavicius and Varnas had back-to-back triples to fuel a 10-2 run as Lietkabelis celebrated its second victory in a row.

It marked a second consecutive win for the Lithuanian squad 

7Bet-Lietkabelis Panevezys v Veolia Towers Hamburg (2024-11-06T17:00:00.000Z)

Led by the effervescent Anthony Brown, the Turkish team overcame a first quarter deficit to snap a three-game losing streak

Turk Telekom roars back to brush Cluj aside, 99-80

Turk Telekom Ankara improved to 4-3 in Group B of the BKT EuroCup and snapped a three-game skid with an emphatic 99-80 home win over U-BT Cluj-Napoca, thanks to a blistering performance from Anthony Brown who posted a career-high 39 points to go with 7 assists and 4 boards.

Braian Angola racked up 21 points and 8 rebounds while Yoan Makoundou added 18 points for Turk Telekom, which rallied superbly from a 22-30 first-quarter deficit and turned the matchup on its head as Brown did damage from all over.

At the other end, Zavier Simpson shined with 22 points, 9 assists and 6 boards and Zach Hankins chipped in with 20 points for Cluj, which saw its three-game winning streak vanquished and slipped to 3-4.

The visitors made a bright start and opened up an 8-point lead as Simpson pierced through Turk Telekom’s defense almost at will and Hankins dominated the paint, with the pair netting 9 points each for Cluj in the first quarter.

However, Turk Telekom came storming back in the latter stages of the second as Brown started firing on all cylinders, propelling the home team into a 20-8 run which turned a 32-39 deficit into a 52-47 lead at halftime.

Turk Telekom found yet another extra gear in the third quarter as the unstoppable Brown poured 14 points in that period, galvanizing the home team into an 80-64 lead ahead of the final 10 minutes. At that stage, the hosts were a staggering 11 of 16 from downtown and it was clear there was no way back for Cluj.

Brown and Turk Telekom kept their feet on the gas in the fourth and the livewire forward sank another three long-range shots to finish on 8 of 10 from deep, having missed only his last 2 attempts when the writing was already on the wall for the visitors.

His monster display was complemented by relentless work all over by Angola and Makoundou, who both facilitated Turk Telekom’s fast-paced offense leaving Cluj with too much work to do.

Led by the effervescent Anthony Brown, the Turkish team overcame a first-quarter deficit to snap a three-game losing streak

Turk Telekom Ankara v U-BT Cluj-Napoca (2024-11-06T16:30:00.000Z)

Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana-Cosea JL Bourg-en-Bresse | Round 7 Highlights | 2024-25 BKT EuroCup   

Rasheed Sulaimon drives and dishes to Nikola Tanaskovic who lowers the boom.

 Tanaskovic lowers the boom! Magic Moment 

 Rasheed Sulaimon drives and dishes to Nikola Tanaskovic who lowers the boom.

Buducnost VOLI Podgorica v ratiopharm Ulm (2024-11-06T18:45:00.000Z)

Euroleague Basketball has announced the following disciplinary sanctions pertaining to incidents that occurred in Rounds 6 and 7 of the 2024-25 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague season.

Latest disciplinary sanctions

**Round 4**

- Joan Penarroya, head coach of FC Barcelona, has been sanctioned with a fine of €5,000 for comments regarding the officiating performance, in accordance with Article 24.2.c) of the Euroleague Basketball Disciplinary Code.

**Round 6**

- Nikola Kalinic, Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade player, has been sanctioned with a fine of €5,000 for comments regarding the officiating performance, in accordance with Article 24.2.c) of the Euroleague Basketball Disciplinary Code.
- Nemanja Nedovic, Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade player, has been sanctioned with a fine of €5,000 for comments regarding the officiating performance, in accordance with Article 24.2.c) of the Euroleague Basketball Disciplinary Code.
- Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade has been sanctioned with fine of €10.000 for comments regarding the officiating performance published on the club official website, in accordance with Article 24.2.c) of the Euroleague Basketball Disciplinary Code.
- Zeljko Drcelic, Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade Chairman of the Board, has been sanctioned with a fine of €10,000 for comments regarding the officiating performance, in accordance with Article 24.2.c) of the Euroleague Basketball Disciplinary Code.
- Luka Mitrovic and Nemanja Nedovic of Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade have been sanctioned with fines of €7,000 and €5,000 respectively for actions that represent a lack of respect towards the referees during their road game against Zalgiris Kaunas under 27.2.b) of the Euroleague Basketball Disciplinary Code.
- The protest submitted by Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade on the occasion of the game against Zalgiris Kaunas has been dismissed.

**Round 7**

- Crvena Zvezda Meridianbet Belgrade has been sanctioned with fines amounting to €32,500 for the behavior of its fans, which includes offensive chants and the throwing of objects onto the playing court, on the occasion of its home game against Panathinaikos AKTOR Athens under 29.2.f and h) of the Euroleague Basketball Disciplinary Code.
- Olympiacos Piraeus has been sanctioned with a fine amounting to €5,000 for the offensive chants committed by its fans on the occasion of its home game against FC Barcelona under 29.2.f) of the Euroleague Basketball Disciplinary Code.

Euroleague Basketball has announced the following disciplinary decisions pertaining to incidents that occurred in Rounds 4, 6 and 7 of the 2024-25 Turkish Airlines EuroLeague season.

Latest disciplinary decisions

Devin Robinson gets the ball from Aleksej Nikolic and dunks in traffic!


 Robinson's huge slam! Magic Moment

 Devin Robinson gets the ball from Aleksej Nikolic and dunks in traffic!


Dovrat connects with Ogbeide, who slams it home!

Ogbeide dunks off a Dovrat alley-oop pass! Magic Moment

7-bet Lietkabelis Panevezys-Veolia Towers Hamburg | Round 7 Highlights | 2024-25 BKT EuroCup   

Turk Telekom Ankara-U-BT Cluj-Napoca | Round 7 Highlights | 2024-25 BKT EuroCup   

What a bounce pass by Noa Essengue, who finds a cutting Karim Jallow for the dunk.

Essengue drops the bounce back dime! Magic Moment

 What a bounce pass by Noa Essengue, who finds a cutting Karim Jallow for the dunk.

Yovel Zoosman pulls up, but Jordan Parks says not with me here!


 Parks stops Zoosman! Magic Moment

Yovel Zoosman pulls up, but Jordan Parks says not with me here!
 

Joel Ayayi sends a quick pass and Kevin Kokila dunks in traffic!

Kokila throws it down! Magic Moment

Joel Ayayi gets the steal and sends a behind-the-back assist to Jordan Usher for a dunk!

Ayayi's behind-the-back pass! Magic Moment

Nathan Laszewski won’t be denied as he drives for a fierce slam!