Three stats told the story of Prometey's road win in Ljubljana.
Boards, turnovers granted Prometey a much-needed win



Having lost its last two games and also missing some important players because of injuries, Prometey Slobozhanske arrived at Ljubljana looking for a win that could cheer it up, against a team that was winless after three rounds. It was not easy, but Prometey managed to pull out a hard-fought 83-90 win after coming back from a 10-point deficit in the first half.
The visitors based their victory on two factors that many expected to be crucial in this game; rebounds and turnovers. Cedevita had committed more turnovers than any other team in the league, 18 per game, before this game, while Prometey reached Round 4 leading the competition in rebounding, with 41.3 per game. Both aspects were dominated by the visitors, which proved enough to get the victory.
Cedevita slightly cut down on turnovers, losing ‘only’ 16 offenses, but it did so in a consistent way - 4 per quarter - and allowed Prometey to score 16 oints off of them. On the other side, Olimpija gave up 22 offensive rebounds - 16 in the first half, which Prometey converted into 18 second-chance points.
"I think we have to start from three numbers; the first number is that they had 22 offensive rebounds. They are the best team in rebounding of the EuroCup because of offensive rebounds," Cedevita assistant Andrea Turchetto explained in the press conference. "They averaged like 15 or 16 [before this game] and we gave up like 22. It’s too much, especially at the end of the second quarter when we were up by 6-8 points. Second number is our 16 turnovers, honestly, it is a little bit too much, and third is our 25% from the three-point line."
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On the opposite side, Prometey head coach Ronen Ginzburg celebrated how his team managed to bounce back by sticking to the plan and to the words he had shared before the tip-off:
"It was a very important win for us, after losing the last two games and two players," he said. "I told them, at the beginning of the game in the locker room, that the team that showed more character and were more aggressive would win this game."