Gran Canaria led from start to finish in beating Frutti Extra Bursaspor 74-85 on Wednesday night. It is Gran Canaria's fourth consecutive win, which improved the team's record to 4-1 atop of Group B, while Bursaspor dropped to 2-3 on the season.
Gran Canaria downs Bursaspor, wins fourth straight, 74-85



The visitors took control from the get-go and then used two big third-quarter runs to open a 20-point advantage. Bursaspor attempted a late rally, but never got closer than 9 points. John Shurna and Artem Pustovyi scored 20 apiece for Gran Canaria. Pustovyi also had 7 rebounds. Dylan Ennis netted 15, while A.J. Slaughter had 13 points and 6 assists. Allerik Freeman scored 17 points for the hosts, David Dudzinski collected 16 points and 7 rebounds, Andrew Andrews tallied 10 points and 8 assists and Kevarrius Hayes also scored 10 in a losing effort.
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Ilimane Diop opened the game with a triple and a dunk. Derek Needham and Dylan Ennis traded triples before Dudzinski and Chris Kramer traded baskets multiple times. Kramer's driving layup, a long jumper from Slaughter and a floater from Ennis made it 11-22 as Gran Canaria's offense was clicking from the start. Andrews knocked down a pair of three-pointers late in the first quarter to help cut it to 19-26 after 10 minutes.
Shurna and Pustovyi combined to score the first 6 points of the second quarter for a 13-point lead. Allerik Freeman and Anthony Brown hit back-to-back jumpers for the hosts and Brown's transition triple made it 28-35. But Shurna got hot, nailing back-to-back three-pointers to restore a double-digit lead, 32-43. Metin Turen and Andrews helped the hosts cut it to 38-45 at halftime.
Bursaspor got within 43-45 at the start of the third after a put-back dunk from Hayes and a corner triple from Needham, but the visitors had another answer. Diop and Shurna hit mid-range jumpers before Slaughter and Shurna made back-to-back triples to help open a 47-57 lead. Gran Canaria followed that up by finishing the quarter with 12 unanswered points, a run fueled with a long-range dagger from Slaughter and capped by Pustovyi's 6 consecutive points to lead 49-69 at the end of the third quarter.
A basket from Miquel Salvo opened the fourth quarter. Dudzinski snapped a 0-14 run with a dunk and then had a put-back layup. A triple from Freeman made it 58-76 before 2 threes from Dudzinski got Bursaspor to 66-78 with 4:07 to go. An alley-oop dunk from Hayes and a layup from Freeman trimmed the deficit to single digits, 70-79 with 2:55 to go. But that's as close as Bursaspor got as Gran Canaria stopped the bleeding and closed the game out.








































































































