


Buducnost VOLI Podgorica solidified its place in the middle of Group B with a comeback 82-71 win against visiting Slask Wroclaw on Wednesday. A 29-13 run bridging the final two quarters turned the game around after Slask had led for more than 10 minutes until then. Buducnost improved to 7-4 while Slask fell to a league-low 1-10.
Buducnost got 14 points from J.J. O'Brien, while Trae Bell-Haynes added 13, Petar Popovic 12 and Igor Drobnjak 11. Alpha Kaba had a league-high fifth double-double with 11 points and 13 rebounds. Lukasz Kolenda led Slask with a career-high-tying 23 points while Aleksander Dziewa and Daniel Golebiowski scored 11 each.
Kolenda's 5 points let Slask forge an early 7-7 tie, but O'Brien's second basket and Kaba's first send Buducnost in front again. Cameron Reynolds buried a triple as the lead hit 15-9, but Kolenda stayed hot and fed Golebiowski for a buzzer-beater and a 17-17 tie after 10 minutes. Slask stayed close and soon went ahead 22-23 on Dziewa's inside basket. The lead flipped back and forth, with Kolenda's three-point play and Dziewa's long-range bomb sending Slask to a surprise 29-33 halftime advantage.
Slask boosted its lead to 31-37 before Popovic and Drobnjak reeled it back to 41-41 for Buducnost. Golebiowski answered immediately for Slask but Buducnost eventually tied twice before a three-point play by Bell-Haynes flipped the lead to the hosts, 54-51, after 30 minutes. Buducnost took its run to 9-0 and a 58-51 advantage before Alesander Wisniewski and Popovic traded triples and Bell-Haynes scored at 63-54. But after Kaba made it 73-60 lead with 5 minutes left, Slask had neither the time nor firepower to recover.