Basketball Eurocup: Niners Chemnitz collapse within the last quarter | EUROtoday

Basketball Bundesliga workforce Niners Chemnitz ended the group section of the Eurocup with a defeat. Coach Rodrigo Pastore’s workforce, which had already certified for the spherical of 16, misplaced clearly 62:79 (36:34) to Turkish first division membership Türk Telekom Ankara on Wednesday night. With 14 factors, Kevin Yebo was the Niners’ greatest scorer, who completed sixth in Group B with 9 wins and 9 losses.

The Chemnitz workforce began boldly and constantly attacked the basket. With a number of defensive effort, additionally they prevented the hosts from exploiting their size benefits. Although the Niners fell behind after an offensive section of weak spot in direction of the tip of the primary quarter, they rapidly recovered and took a 36:30 lead within the second interval with an 11:2 run (18th minute).

After the break, Ankara defended rather more intensively and likewise benefited from some careless ball losses by the visitors. The favourite pulled forward to 51:44 (twenty seventh). Held till 56:62 (thirty fourth). Chemnitz in opposition to it earlier than the hosts pulled away with a 14-0 run to make it 76:56 (thirty eighth).

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