Roaring back from double-digit early deficits, Hamburg Towers pulled off a 78-85 road win on the court of MoraBanc Andorra on Wednesday to make the Group A standings even tighter. Hamburg improved to 5-7, three wins clear in the final playoffs spot, while Andorra dropped to 6-5 along with at least two other six-win teams. Jaylon Brown fueled the comeback with 32 points on 7-for-9 three-point shooting to lead the winners. Maik Kotsar did the inside job with 20 points and 8 rebounds, while Max Di Leo added 13.
Hamburg mounts huge comeback to win in Andorra



Andorra got 23 points from Drew Crawford and 15 from Codi Miller-McIntyre, who also dished 8 assists. But despite leading by a high of 25-9 early in the second quarter, the hosts could not stop Brown, the spark who lit Hamburg's rally from that point forward.
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Seth Hinrichs started the scoring with a corner triple for Hamburg but Oriol Pauli's basket and a fastbreak dunk by Victor Arteaga put Andorra in front. The hosts stayed there as Pauli and Crawford buried threes to make it 11-3. Nacho Llovet, from deep, made it a double-digit difference, 15-3. Kotsar ended Hamburg's drought with a put-back and another basket but the hosts still held a 19-7 lead after 10 minutes.
Kotsar struck first in the second quarter, too, before Miller-McIntyre and Moussa Diagne raised Andorra's lead to 25-9 from downtown. But Brown and Lukas Meisner matched them and when Kotsar scored inside on either side of a timeout, it was suddenly 25-19. Brown strung together free throws and another triple to make it 25-24, which is when Miller-McIntyre returned with his own three-pointer and coast-to-coast layup to calm Andorra at 30-24. Brown fed Kotsar around another pair of triples and suddenly Hamburg was up, 30-32. Crawford flipped the scoreboard from deep but Brown hit another. Crawford's back-door layup tied it 35-35, but Brown was fouled on his next shot and hit 2 of 3 free throws to give Hamburg a 35-37 halftime edge.
Di Leo's 4 early points after the break kept Hamburg strong before Miller-McIntyre and Brown traded baskets and then Diagne converted an and-one layup at 43-44. Pauli flipped the lead but Meisner took it back from deep and Brown's sixth three-pointer soon made it 47-50. Crawford came alive for 5 points and a new Andorra league, 53-52. Mario Nakic and Arteaga kept the hosts going to 57-54. As Hamburg kept approaching, Nakic and Guillem Colom protected the lead, but Hinrichs nailed a triple out of a timeout before the buzzer to leave a 62-61 scoreboard after 30 minutes.
Kotsar scored inside, Brown hit his seventh triple and stole to feed Di Leo as Hamburg took charge again, 62-68, early in the fourth. Christen and Kotsar lengthened the difference to 64-71 before Crawford struck from downtown for Andorra. Brown hit unsportsmanlike foul shots after which Kotsar scored again at 67-75. DiLeo hit a huge triple with just under 4 minutes left that Nakic and Crawford copied for Andorra at 73-69. Hinrichs downed a jumper to which Kotsar added a free throw at 73-82, ensuring that this victory was going back to Hamburg.







































































































