Bilbao Basket gets twelve advantage points in the first leg against Tofas Bursa (84-72)
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Surne Bilbao Basket has achieved twelve advantage points in the FIBA Europe Cup quarterfinals of the 2024-25 season that is playing Before the Tocas Bursa. The Bilbao team has obtained that income by winning for 84-72 in the round trip match, in Miribillathis Wednesday night. The tie will be resolved in Bursa, in Türkiye, Next Wednesday, in the second leg.
In this context, Bilbao Basket has started overwhelmingly The first meeting of the tie. The Biscayan team, in the first quarter, has reached a maximum advantage of seventeen points, when it won 21-4, after in the first minutes of the game there has only been one team on the court: the Basque team.
Little by little, Tofas Bursa has begun to reduce that differenceand, in the final stretch of the second quarter, the Turkish team has been located four, in 37-33. Kris Bankston, successful in attack, hurt those of Ponsarnau, who, yes, has managed to make the precise adjustments so that the last seconds of that second period have been very favorable for their men: a partial of 7-0 has left the score in 47-35 in the break, with a stellar Harald Frey, author of eleven points in the first half.
The clash has followed a similar line in the third quarter: Bilbao Basket controlled the game and the score, the Tocas Bursa managed to approach, and the Biscay team was distancing again, with advantages around ten points. The last ten minutes of play have begun with those of Ponsarnau winning for fifteen, 65-50, and in the last period Bilbao Basket has had strength not to give in. The 84-72 leaves the ticket for the semifinals closer to the Bilbao team that, in any case, must ratify that classification next Wednesday, in Bursa.
Technical file
84 – Surne Bilbao Basket (26+21+18+19): Frey (15), Abdur-Rahkman (9), Zoran Dragic (13), Ridder (14) and Hlinason (1) -Cinco initial-; Pantzar (7), Cazalon (5), Domínguez (5), Sylla (4) and Jones (11).
72 – Tofas Bursa (14+21+15+22): Alex Pérez (9), Marcquise Reed (12), Gecim (5), Saybir (8) and Pasecnicks (4) -Cinco initial-; Trifunovic (7), O’Brien (10), Kris Bankston (14), Cengiz (3), Gauzin and Berka Demir.
PARTIAL: 26-14, 47-35 (rest); 65-50 and 84-72 (final).
Referees: Marius Ciulin (Romania), Sergii Zashchuk (Ukraine) and Sinisa Prpa (Serbia).
Incidents: 5146 spectators and spectators, in Miribilla.
Source: Eitb

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