64-81: Asisa Joventut achieves its first away win of the season
He Asisa Joventut This Tuesday they achieved their first away win of the season, in Portugal, by defeating the Port by 64-81 in a duel dominated mostly by Dani Miret’s men.
A run of 6-26 in the second quarter was key for the Catalans to add the third victory in the Basketball Champions League to continue undefeated leaders of group H.
Despite Penya’s dominance, Porto was the team that started the match the best, with a successful Childe Dundao, who made it 10-9 in the first five minutes of the game.
In the following minutes there were hardly any baskets, with both teams very imprecise in their respective hoops, and the end of the first quarter was reached with a tight 17-14.
In the second period the script of the game completely changed, with Asisa Joventut who saw how Nico Laprovittola He led the team to achieve the first advantage of the game (19-26, min. 14).
The Portuguese did not react, and Penya took advantage of it with a barrage of triples led by Alex Reyes to set the maximum of the game for his team (19-35, min. 17).
The success in the green and black was maintained, and At half-time the score was 23-40 in favor of Dani Miret’s team. although the crash was by no means doomed.
At the restart, Porto’s best version was seen again and some good minutes from Thomas Bropleh put his team with a disadvantage of so only 11 points (33-44, min. 24).
During the remaining six minutes of the third quarter there was very little scoring and Asisa Joventut managed to close it with a 39-51 in favor after various positive actions by newcomer Nikola Radicevic.
Already in the last quarter, Asisa Joventut once again depended on Laprovittola to get a good profit and put ground in the middle in the Matosinhos Congress Palace (44-58, min. 33).
Technical sheet
64. Porto (17+6+16+25): Dundao (11), Williams (10), Woodard (5), Bropleh (9), Queiroz (4) -starting five-; Voytso (2), Allen (8), Delgado (9), Omlid (5) and Bessa (1).
81. Asisa Joventut (14+26+11+30): Rubio (3), Reyes (12), Torres (1), Cheatham (8), Birgander (6) -starting five-; Kraag (7), Ndiaye (3), Laprovittola (23), Sulejmanovic (7), Radicevic (11) and Nogués (-).
Referees: Wojciech Liszka, Petar Pesic and Ioannis Agrafiotis. No eliminated.
Incidents: Match corresponding to the third day of the group stage of the FIBA Champions League played at the Matosinhos Congress Palace.
The Argentine point guard continued with his particular festival and another three-pointer of his left the game practically in sight with four minutes remaining (49-66, min. 36).
In the end, Asisa Joventut beat Porto at home by 64-81 to add the third victory in the BCL.
