Hamburg overpowered Slask at both ends

Veolia Towers Hamburg enjoyed a memorable 100-64 road win at Slask Wroclaw in Group B after thoroughly dominating every department of the game. Notably on the boards, Hamburg denied the home side a single offensive rebound in the opening three quarters.
Hamburg finished the one-sided clash with a whopping 40 rebounds - 10 of them offensive, while Slask managed 26 and all of their 5 offensive boards came in the last quarter when the game was already over as a contest.
Wroclaw head coach Anrej Urlep succinctly summed up his team’s lack of bite: "Hamburg played a great game. After a series of losses ,they showed how you have to compete for your club. On the other side we played a very poor game, completely without energy, especially in the second and third quarter."
Hamburg’s quick and efficient transition was epitomized by an impressive 30 assists, while Wroclaw only had 11. The visitors also shot 30-of-48 from inside the arc (62.5%) and 10-of-24 from three-point range (41.7%), while Slask was 20-of-40 for two points (50%) and a mere 4-of-15 from beyond the arc (26.7%).
Expectably, visiting head coach Benka Barloschky was delighted.
"Obviously very happy with the win, we were able to take care of the ball and that was a big problem the last game," he said. "Today we controlled that in a very good way, we rebounded the ball in a very good way and those were the two aspects that we wanted to do well in."