It did not take long for Nico Brussino to set the tone for an excellent personal performance as Gran Canaria breezed past Slask Wroclaw, 87-60, on Wednesday night.
Gran Canaria boosted by Brussino’s long bombs
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The guard scored the first points of the game with his team’s opening possession by sinking a transition three-pointer. And less than a minute later he did it again, netting his second triple for a 6-0 lead that let everyone inside Gran Canaria Arena know that the hosts were fully prepared to take charge of the contest.
Brussino added another pair of three-pointers in the third quarter to ensure that Gran Canaria’s lead would not be threatened and he finished with a team-high 15 points on 4-of-6 three-point shooting as well as 8 rebounds.
It was the ninth time in 17 appearances in this season’s EuroCup that Brussino has struck multiple triples and ended a run of two games which saw him fail to score on 6 attempts from deep. With that kind of long-range shooting combined with the inside dominance provided by Khalifa Diop and Artem Pustovyi, Gran Canaria has a potent package that it hopes can lead it all the way to the title.