Bilbao Basket gives an exhibition in Turkey and is classified for the Top 16

Euskaraz irakurri: Bilbao Basketek erakustaldia eman du Turkian eta Top 16ra sailkatu da

The Surne Bilbao Basket has been exhibited this Wednesday in Turkey, where it has been imposed with enormous authority on the Bahcesehir College at the Ülker Sports and Event Hall in Istanbul, for 60-92to ensure being champion of the Group D and the ticket to the phase of the 16 best teams in the Champions League with one day to play.

The victory, in addition to giving them a placid last game of the first phase against ERA Nymburk in Miribilla, prevents ‘the men in black’ from the intermediate ‘Play Ins’ that will be played by the second and third classified of the eight groups of the competition and that will give the last eight tickets for the four groups in which the 16 best of the tournament will be divided.

Surne Bilbao, in which the 12 players who took to the field scored, barely gave a few minutes of hope to a Turkish team that already had a difficult assault on first place in the group, for which they needed to win by more than 14 points in the match this Wednesday and also win on the last day of the Regular Phase against Igokea in Bosnia.

Statistically they led the great choral performance of those from Jaume Ponsarnau the interiors Jeff Withey (13 points, 5/5 shooting shots, 8 rebounds and a PIR of 23), Emir Sulejmanovic (16, 5 and 19) and Michael Kyser (11, 5, 2 blocks and 14), who did not stop getting easy baskets, but well worked, and the outsiders Ludde Hakanson (10, 5 assists and 14) and Adam Smith (9, 8 assists and 13), which they directed very well.

opened the score rabasedasomething that the Biscayan team is beginning to repeat a lot, but Bahcesehir responded and went ahead 7-3 in an even first quarter despite the fact that since Sulejmanovic He made it 7-8, domino was always for the visitors.

Bilbao Basket was already beginning to be seen enjoying and flowing, but the locals wanted to keep their faces against the clash without letting those in black escape (12-13). They made a first threat of escaping those of ponsarnau (14-20, 16-23) but the Turks held on at the end of the first quarter (18-23) and also in a stuck first half of the second quarter (26-27).

It was a 0-8 (26-35)elongated to 6-15 at the end of the second quarter (32-42)which marked the beginning of the end for a Bahcesehir unable to stop a Basque team that broke the clash reaching a 20-point lead 5 minutes into the third quarter (38-58).

He threatened to recover the Turkish team (43-58)but ponsarnau calmed down his team and now, after finishing the third quarter with a difference of 24 points (46-70)the only unknown to reveal for the last ten minutes was to know how far the beating went, which was up to 34 points (48-82) 6.23 from the end, and the final result, a 60-92 that faithfully explained what happened on the field.

Data sheet:

60 – Bahcesehir College (18+14+14+14): Hall (4), Jamar Smith (13), Arslan (12), Gist (1) and Boutsiele (8) -starting five-, Shepherd (5), Ozmirak, Baygül (3), Blazic (8), Candan, Savas (4) and Ozdemir (2).

92 – Surne Bilbao Basket (23+19+28+22): Hakanson (10), Adam Smith (9), Rabaseda (3), Sulejmanovic (16) and Withey (13) -starting five-, Radicevic (5), Francis Alonso (7), Reyes (8), Andersson (2) , Kyser (11), Ubal (4) and Rosa (4).

Partial: 18-23, 32-42 (rest); 46-70 and 60-92 (final).

Referees: Boris Krejic (Slovenia), Beniamino Manuel Attard (Italy) and Martin Vulic (Croatia). Eliminated for fouls by Baygül (min. 32).