He Baxi Manresa He easily passed the procedure before the bottom of the Group A of the Euro Cup basketball, the Veolia Hamburgand added his fourth victory in continental competition.
A clash that took place on Friday, an unusual day for the Euro Cupbut a change was made this day due to the dispute of the FI windowsBA.
The Bages team started the match well, especially in attack, thanks to the wrist of Álex Reyes (12-8, min.5).
Against all odds, the Hamburg played some very good minutes and even took the lead after several consecutive positive plays by Zacharie Perrin (14-17, min.8).
The Germans held on to the advantage for a bit and left at the end of the first quarter with the favorable result of 19-20an advantage that would last more than a little while.
In the second period, the Baxi Manresa He put the sixth gear on the accelerator thanks to the youth of Max Gaspà to place the first big advantage on the local side (30-24, min.13).
An advantage that the Catalans no longer let escape at a time when Pierre Oriola made the audience present at the event rise from their seats on more than one occasion. Nou Congost (37-31, min.17).
The visitors did not wake up and the Baxi Manresa He took advantage of it to reach the break time with a more than favorable 50-39 that put the ball in the middle, but without completely ending the match.
At the restart, the Catalans did not take their foot off the accelerator and Marcis Steinberg He quickly put the momentary maximum to leave the bottom of group A more than touched (60-41, min.23).
To the good play of the locals was added the spectacle of 'kao' he'll break, with one of his usual alley-oop dunks, to maintain the great advantage that he had in the light (74-52, min.28).
In the end, the Baxi Manresa It reached the end of the third quarter with a score of 78-58 that left the match practically a verdict.
In the last ten minutes of the match, the match was a pure formality in which the people from Manresa were responsible for letting the clock pass and increasing the difference on the scoreboard to avoid unnecessary scares.
In case there were any doubts at the Nou Congost, a past hoop by Louis Olinde made it 91-62 that already left everything more than closed.
Finally, the Baxi Manresa They beat Veolia Hamburg 99-72 and the Catalans are already thinking about the duel that will be played in less than 48 hours, this Sunday at 12:00 p.m., on the Joventut Badalona court.
Technical sheet
99. Baxi Manresa (19+31+28+21): Pérez (2), Obasohan (9), Reyes (13), Steinbergs (10), Golden (4) -inicial cinco-; Akobundu (6), Benitez (17), Gaspà (5), Ubal (9), Knudsen (2), Olinde (6) and Oriola (16).
72. Veolia Hamburg (20+19+19+14): Wimberg (9), Daniels (7), Gray (2), Ogbe (4), Perrin (20) -cinco inicial-; Thorpe (9), Rich (3), Maronka (4), Mueller (-), Breunig (10) and Turudic (4).
Referees: Eduard Udianskyy, Uros Obrknezevic and Manuel Attard. They eliminated visiting players Rich (min.38), Maronka (min.38) and Gray (min.40) due to five personal fouls.
Incidences: Match corresponding to matchday 9 of the European Basketball Championship played at the Nou Congost.
