The London Lions pounded Veolia Towers Hamburg 75-103 on Tuesday night at edel-optics.de Arena for the club’s first-ever EuroCup win on the road. Tomislav Zubcic led five London scorers in double figures with 22 points on 4-of-6 three-point shooting. Sam Dekker posted 19 points and 7 rebounds, Kostas Koufos contributed 18 points, Vojtech Hruban did not miss a shot and made 4 triples in scoring 16 points and Aaron Best added 10 points. Lukas Meisner and Yoeli Childs led Hamburg with 19 points apiece. The result left both teams with 2-3 records in Group B.
Lions roar in Hamburg, 75-103



It was all Hamburg early as Christoph Phillips and Kendale McCullum opened the game with back-to-back three-pointers. It was 10-2 already after 2 and a half minutes when the visitors called timeout. Dekker got going for London, during which it reeled off 11 straight points. Zubcic’s steal and slam gave London its first lead, 16-17. Best extended the margin to 18-23 after 10 minutes. The visitors broke the game open with a 0-12 second-quarter run during which Dekker dunked twice and Best scored 5 points, including a triple that made it 30-48. Meisner scored 5 points in the last minute of the quarter to trim the Hamburg deficit to 41-55 at the break.
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Little changed after the break as London continued to score at astonishing rates. Zubcic pushed the margin into the 20s, 51-73, though Meisner continued to supply some Hamburg resistance. Free throws by Jonas Wohlfarth-Bottermann made it 59-73 through three quarters. Ziga Samar’s basket in the lane got Hamburg within 63-76, but that was as close as the hosts would get in the fourth quarter. Hruban buried some shots for London which pulled away into the 20s again and put the game on ice.