### ratiopharm Ulm head coach Anton Gavel:

"I think we started both halves very well, in the first quarter and the third quarter. It’s something we put an emphasis on. I think we allowed only 11 points in the third quarter, which is very important, and we built our lead. I think we still have to be able to be better in managing the game and finish it earlier, but we are happy with the win.

"We wanted to put an emphasis on how we started the game and the third quarter, to do it well, which in the last games we didn’t do. I mean, we wanted to show a different face than we showed in the last domestic games. It’s something that I think we did well tonight. We got 23 free throws, we attacked the paint, we still had more threes than twos, which is something I wouldn’t like but we were still able to attack the paint. We reduced the turnovers in the second half, we had 10 in the first and just 4 in the second so we can be happy about that, we rebounded the ball pretty well, we matched their physicality that hurt us in game 1. We are happy that we were able to win the game."

### 7Bet-Lietkabelis Panevezys head coach Nenad Canak:

"Congratulations to Ulm, today they were better in all those things in basketball. They did what we missed, we didn’t run back, we didn’t play one-on-one defense, we didn’t follow the rules about the individual characteristics of their players, and of course, if you don’t follow that and you don’t follow the game plan also, if you don’t have transition defense, if you don’t rebound - they got 14 offensive boards, it is too much. If you don’t do the things we didn’t do today, you don’t deserve to win."

### ratiopharm Ulm head center Bruno Caboclo:

"I’m feeling better \[in my second game in the Eurocup\]. I had to make some adjustments. I was getting in foul trouble in the beginning of the games, that changed my game, but today I could hold off the fouls and helped more my team. I think we stopped their transition well. We were struggling a little bit in the beginning of the games with our scoring and stops but today we did it very well."

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ratiopharm Ulm v 7Bet-Lietkabelis Panevezys (2023-01-18T18:45:00.000Z)

ratiopharm Ulm enjoyed a peaceful 78-69 win over visiting 7Bet-Lietkabelis Panevezys at Ratiopharm Arena on Wednesday night. The hosts used a 17-2 opening run to take charge and outscored the opponent 22-11 in the third quarter to confirm the outcome. Ulm improved to 6-5 and Lietkabelis dropped to 4-7 and remained winless on the road.

 

Yago Dos Santos led all scorers with 21 points, plus 6 rebounds and 8 assists for a PIR of 30. Bruno Caboclo followed with 12 points and 9 rebounds and David Fuchs contributed 10 and 5 for the winners. Jamel Morris scored 16 points in 19 minutes for Lietkabelis.

The hosts had a strong start and held Lietkabelis scoreless for the first 3 minutes of the game, as three-pointers by Thomas Klepeisz, Brandon Paul and Dos Santos helped Ulm build an early double-digit lead that Caboclo soon extended to 17-2. Although Morris tried to revitalize the visitors, Ulm’s backcourt kept punishing the rim and the distance remained big, 27-13, after 10 minutes. 

The visitors improved after the break and found some offensive momentum through Paulius Marauskas and Benas Griciunas to reduce the gap to 32-24 midway through the second period. Ulm tried to get back on the good track by restoring its starting five on court, but turnovers prevented it and Lietkabelis trimmed the deficit to 43-38 at halftime.

Caboclo’s work inside and a couple of triples by Paul returned a safe double-digit advantage to Ulm, 55-40, early in the third quarter. Lietkabelis ended a 5-minute scoring drought with a layup by Vytenis Lipkevicius, but the scoring remained elusive for the guests’ offense. Free throws by Dos Santos and Fedor Zugic, plus a buzzer-beater slam by Fuchs made it 65-49 entering the last stanza. 

A three-point play by Joshua Hawley increased the difference to 17 points early in the fourth period, as Lietkabelis kept unsuccessfully trying to come back from behind the arc. The visitors’ frontcourt produced some buckets inside to alleviate Lietkabelis’s offensive struggles, but Ulm needed just a couple of long-distance shots by Dos Santos and Robin Christen to seta 74-58 advantage that iced the game with 3 minutes to go.

Ulm controls Lietkabelis at home, 78-69

J'Covan Brown made 7DAYS EuroCup history on Wednesday night. In leading its Hapoel Vegan Friendly Tel Aviv to a 95-79 win over the visiting Paris Basketball, Brown tied the single-game competition record with 16 assists.

The 32-year-old point guard tied a mark set by Omar Cook, who had 16 assists on November 19, 2014, when he led Buducnost VOLI Podgorica to an 87-69 victory over Ventspils.

The Hapoel playmaker tied the EuroCup record in only his ninth career appearance since he is playing in his first season in the competition. Brown already had 10 assists at halftime, and then had 4 more in the third quarter. At that point, Brown had 14 assists and 0 turnovers with Hapoel holding a comfortable lead.

Brown tied the mark with 3:21 left in the game, when Tomer Ginat made a free throw after drawing a foul on a layup that Brown set him up for, allowing Brown to enter the EuroCup record books. He was aware of how close he was to setting the record in the closing minutes, but came up short.

"It is actually harder to get \[the record\] when everybody's in your ear telling you to do it," Brown said. "If they wouldn't have told me, just let me keep play, I would've got it."

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Hapoel's J'Covan Brown ties the EuroCup assists record

Hapoel Vegan Friendly Tel Aviv v Paris Basketball (2023-01-18T18:00:00.000Z)

 Buducnost survived scare with late aggressiveness 

It was a tale of two halves on Wednesday as Buducnost VOLI Podgorica rallied to down pesky Slask Wroclaw 82-71 avoid avoid a potential step-back in the Group B standings.

Buducnost could do nothing right in the first half, after which it trailed 29-33 to the same team it had beaten by 40 points on the road back in Round 2. Not only had that been Slask's worst loss ever in the competition, but it was also the worst by any 7DAYS EuroCup team in more than five seasons.

In the first half, however, Slask out-shot its hosts 1-4 from the three-point arc and 6-9 at the foul line while holding its own (21-20) against the league's top rebounders. 

"Buducnost is going to come out more aggressive in the second half and we have to match their energy," visiting head coach Andrej Urlep predicted at halftime.

His team still held a 49-51 edge going into the final minute of the third quarter, but that's when Buducnost struck. A 9-0 run quickly stretched to 21-5, giving the hosts a sudden 70-56 lead from which Slask could not recover.  Guards Tre Bell-Haynes and Petar Popovic accounted for 13 of those points.

Having missed 14 of its first 15 three-point tries, Buducnost found the mark on 4 in the last 14 minutes and used 10 second-half offensive rebounds and 11 total steals, of which Popovic had 4, to tilt the balance.

The turnaround lifted Buducnost into a three-way tie for third place at 7-4, just one victory away from second place, setting up an interesting battle going forward near the top of Group B.

Buducnost survived scare with late aggressiveness

Buducnost VOLI Podgorica v Slask Wroclaw (2023-01-18T17:30:00.000Z)

### Hapoel Vegan Friendly Tel Aviv head coach Danny Franco:

"We had to react after a tough domestic cup loss. I am happy everybody held themselves accountable for that last game and coming into this EuroCup game. It was important for us to try to stick to the top of the group as much as possible against a very good team on a good momentum. I am happy we came out first as aggressive as possible. That determined the game.

"I hope we can build from this game. Not that there were a lot of new things tonight, we moved the ball well and shared the ball well. That's our game, the tempo of the game was our game, and I am happy we played Hapoel Tel Aviv basketball the way we know it."

### Paris Basketball head coach Will Weaver:

"I am disappointed in the way we attacked the game. They made it hard. Credit goes to Hapoel for imposing themselves on the game. But we certainly had a higher gear we can play in, and have been playing in. We were not in that gear tonight.

"I felt like every Hapoel player attacked us, and I think every player on our team got attacked.  And their coach kicked my ass, and their players kicked our players' ass. They deserved to win, for sure, and we must find a way to learn the lessons that we can learn from that, both about our approach and spirit and about the details that help us play good. It's not like I don't know J'Covan Brown is good. I've known him since he was 15 years old. I helped recruit him to the University of Texas and coached him there. Now that the game is over, I am happy for him in what he's been able to do in the country of Israel. He's been a remarkably good player here for a number of years. He controls the game exceptionally well. He has a massive amount of skill, and he is defending enough to have this team winning. I am happy for him, and I am glad we don't have to play against him until the playoffs, when I'll be really excited to kick his ass if I get a chance."

### Hapoel Vegan Friendly Tel Aviv guard J'Covan Brown:

"We knew we had to come out and play a different style of basketball than we did last \[domestic cup\] game. That game we let the fans down, let ourselves down, and I knew it started with me. So I just had to do it from the tip, get everybody involved and just keep it rolling. And when we have a chance to get defense stops, we are a hell of a team to play against. It is actually harder to get \[the record\] when everybody's in your ear telling you to do it. But, if they wouldn't have told me, just let me keep play, I would've got it."

Danny Franco, Hapoel: 'We came out as aggressive as possible'

J'Covan Brown tied the 7DAYS EuroCup record with 16 assists and Hapoel Vegan Friendly Tel Aviv protected its home court with a resounding 95-79 win over visiting Paris Basketball on Wednesday night. The win extended Hapoel's win streak to four games, while Paris suffered its first-ever road loss in the competition, after coming into the game winning the first five games in its premier season in the EuroCup. Both teams now have 7-4 records, though Hapoel's season sweep of Paris gives it the head-to-head tiebreaker. 

Hapoel took a commanding lead in the second quarter and never looked back behind its guard duo of Brown and Jordan McRae who combined for 22 first-half points. Brown also had 10 assists before halftime, and finished the game just shy of a triple-double with 17 points, 16 assists and 8 rebounds. Jordan McRae scored 14 of his 17 points in the first half, JP Tokoto netted 16, Chinanu Onuaku collected 10 points plus 10 rebounds, and Tomer Ginat had 10 points and 7 rebounds in the victory. Ismael Kamagate tallied 17 points plus 12 rebounds and Tyrone Wallace had 15 points in a losing effort.

The teams traded blows early before Brown orchestrated the hosts' first run with a triple from Bar Timor and a pair of baskets from Tokoto to make it 19-12. But Amar Gegic sparked the reply by the visitors and Simms hit a three-pointer to make it 20-20 after 10 minutes. 

McRae and Brown restored Hapoel's lead at the start of the second quarter and McRae's 360 reverse layup opened 33-23. Axel Toupan answered with a four-point play, but Brown, Tokoto, McRae and Onuaku kept filling the visitors' basket, and Xavier Munford scored a pair of buckets in the final 7.5 seconds of the half to open a 55-38 halftime lead.

Hapoel remained in control after the break, with Jaylen Hoard extending the margin to 72-47. Gauthier Denis hit a triple, and Gegic, Wallace and Kamagate sparked the visitors' offense, as they answered with a 1-9 run, and cut it to 77-61 after three quarters. 

But the visitors never got closer, and Hapoel quickly extended the margin to 91-65 behind Onuaku, Brown and McRae. Brown tied the EuroCup all-time record with his 16th assist with little over 3 minutes to go, but ran out of time to set a new mark, as well as remaining just short of completing a triple-double.

Brown leads Hapoel past Paris, 95-79

### Ronen Ginzburg, Prometey Slobozhanske head coach

"We played aggressive, because to compete with this type of team, we need to be in their level on defense. I think the players did a great job, especially on defense. I salute them. We're going game to game, we're not thinking about four \[wins\] in a row or whatever. Any weaknesses, we'll try to improve them. When we start shooting well from the outside, it's tough to stop us. Sometimes we struggle, but we have other weapons. Listen, when \[Issuf\] Sanon makes his outside shots, he's an unbelievable player. The only problem is to fix the furniture in his head; after that, he will be a great player.

"I told the players before the game that if we want to compete against an Italian team, we need to play on their level: intensity, defense, aggressive. In the first half, we were okay, but in the second half, I think we did a great job on defense. My team did a great job against a great team, great coach, and we are happy."

### Alessandro Magro, Germani Brescia head coach

"We were unable to protect the paint, like we did in the first half. Too many deep catches, too many fouls, too many offensive rebounds \[given up\]. We were unable to compete with the proper level of energy.

"I think we played a very good first half, especially with relation to their game plan; we prepared the game to challenge their average shooters, to protect the paint against their drives, offensive rebounds, and I think we did quite a good job at the beginning. In the second half, we didn’t have the same level of concentration. We had too many turnovers, we allowed them to have 17 offensive rebounds. It's too much."

### DJ Kennedy, Prometey Slobozhanske forward

"We knew that they were a physical team and we knew that, for us to win, we had to come out and play physical. The first half was kind of sloppy, but I think, in the second half, we were able to improve the defense, get some stops and finish strong. Definitely \[rebounds were the key\]. We knew that they're an athletic team and we knew that we had to rebound better than the last time we played them. We were able to do a good job on the offensive rebounds today."

Ronen Ginzburg, Prometey: 'When we shoot well from the outside, it's tough to stop us'

Prometey Slobozhanske v Germani Brescia (2023-01-18T17:00:00.000Z)

Prometey Slobozhanske leaned on a big second half to down Germani Brescia 79-72 at Arena Riga on Wednesday evening. By winning its fourth game in a row, Prometey moved up to joint-second in the Group A standings with a record of 7-4, while Brescia dropped to 5-6.

DJ Kennedy and Issuf Sanon led the way for Prometey with 17 points apiece, while Caleb Agada added 11. Veteran center Ondrej Balvin finished with a 10-point, 10-rebound double-double, too. Amedeo Della Valle scored a game-high 20 points for Brescia, who also had CJ Massinburg and David Cournooh contribute 16 and 10 points, respectively.

Prometey took an early lead in the game and managed to hold an advantage until the latter stages of the first quarter, as David Moss nailed a triple with 2:29 remaining to put Brescia ahead, 10-12. The visitors then did enough to maintain an advantage until the end of the quarter, ending the first 10 minutes with a 15-19 lead.

 

Brescia found a way to control the game in the second quarter, with Della Valle coming to the fore in particular. With 2:13 left on the clock, Della Valle's seventh point of the quarter – and his 10th overall – gave Brescia its biggest lead of the game, 27-35. But, Balvin managed to cut the deficit by scoring 4 straight points for Prometey, which saw the halftime score read 31-35.

After the break, Brescia scored early through Nicola Akele, making it a 31-37 game, but then a 9-0 Prometey run allowed the hosts to take the lead, 40-37. Gian Clavell, Sanon and Kennedy were regularly finding ways to put points on the board, but the response of Della Valle, Cournooh and Massinburg ensured that Prometey only had a slender advantage, 54-53, at the end of the third quarter.

Kennedy and Sanon kept their foot on the gas in the fourth quarter, with the former scoring 10 points and the latter adding 7. In particular, back-to-back threes by Sanon seemed to put the game beyond reach for Brescia, as he made it a 71-59 game. Brescia looked to mount a late comeback, but a DJ Stephens dunk all but wrapped up the victory at 77-70 in the final minute. In the end, Prometey won 79-72 to record with its fourth victory in a row and exact some revenge, having lost in Round 2 to Brescia.

Prometey keeps its composure to beat Brescia, 79-72

Turk Telekom Ankara struggled handling the ball at times on Wednesday night, but the Turkish side used its usual dominance inside to get a comfortable win over Veolia Towers Hamburg. 

Turk Telekom committed 19 turnovers but shot 72.2% on two-pointers in a 98-74 win over Hamburg. Turk Telekom only had 5 turnovers in the second half, but an overriding theme was its scoring in the paint. That has been one of the team’s strong points all season as it ranked second in two-point shooting coming into the game at 59.9%. Jerian Grant made 6 of 7 two-pointers as he scored 18 points and Tyrique Jones converted 6 of 8 shots from inside as he tallied 14 points, 

Turk Telekom wasn’t bad from outside either, hitting 39.3% from long range. Coach Erdem Can’s team had connected on 38.3% of its three-point attempts before the game. 

Turk Telekom dominated inside - as usual 

Turk Telekom Ankara v Veolia Towers Hamburg (2023-01-18T17:00:00.000Z)