### **ROUND 9**

Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana vs. Promitheas Patras, March 10, 2022, 20:45 local time.

### **ROUND 11**

Frutti Extra Bursaspor vs. Umana Reyer Venice, March 18, 2022, 19:30 local time.

### **ROUND 13**

Hamburg Towers vs. Lietkabelis Panevezys, April 4, 2022 at 19:30 local time.

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Valencia Basket came to France shorthanded at the point guard spot, but Martin Hermannsson took control to lead his team to a come-from-behind victory over Mincidelice JL Bourg en Bresse.

Hermannsson stepped up and tied Valencia record

Sam Van Rossom and Nenad Dimitrijevic were both missing for Valencia, which meant that head coach Joan Penarroya would have to lean more on Hermannsson. Indeed, Hermannsson led the team in minutes on Tuesday with 25:46. And he used those minutes to tie the club record for assists.

Big-man tandem led Promitheas 

The game's opening basket was an assist from Agravanis to Grant and it was like a fuse was lit for them and Promitheas. They combined on the Greek team's first 10 points and established a routine that would last most of the game.

Promitheas would run its offense through Agravanis, a 2.08-meter power forward, and he would look to Grant, a 2.05-meter center, to clean up inside. The tactic worked to near perfection as Promitheas soared in front 61-48 in the early fourth quarter. A lapse after that saw Ulm get as close as 5 points twice before Promitheas slammed the door on a 79-68 win, its second over Ulm this season.

Grant finished with career highs of 22 points and a 34 performance index rating while also pulling down 11 rebounds. Agravanis skirted triple-double territory with 14 points, 6 rebounds and a career-high 8 assists, the latter a rare number for any player his size. 

The upshot was an even tighter Group B race in the 7DAYS EuroCup, with last-place Promitheas at 4-9, just two victories off the pace from Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana (6-7) and Ulm (6-8), who hold sixth and seventh place, respectively. Only eight teams make the playoffs, but if Promitheas can make up ground and tie Ulm, it would win that tiebreak – and have its two big men to thank for it.

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Promitheas Patras v ratiopharm Ulm (2022-03-08T17:30:00.000Z)

Dimitris Agravanis - Promitheas Patras (photo Kostas Petsas - Patras) - EC21

Partizan came into the game making just 33.3% of its three-point attempts, which ranked 16th in the league. In Panevezys, head coach Zeljko Obradovic's men connected on just 7 of 22 tries from long range, or just 31.8%, and could not keep up with Lietkabelis's hot shooting.

The poor shooting kept Partizan to just 78 points – 7.4 points below its average. That total was also just 1.9 points more than what Lietkabelis had been conceding to opponents so far this season, 76.1 points on average, its defense ranking third overall. What's more, the Lithuanian side had specialized in making three-pointers tough on opponents, whose 35.0% rate from deep against the Lithuanian team was the sixth-worst in the league.

Lietkabelis did not just make life difficult for Partizan from the outside. The guests made just 46.5% of their two-pointers, too, which came as a real surprise since Partizan led the EuroCup coming into the game with 58.7% shooting inside the arc.

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Lietkabelis Panevezys exposed one of Partizan NIS Belgrade's biggest weaknesses while cruising to a 93-78 home win in Group A of the 7DAYS EuroCup on Tuesday.

Lietkabelis exposed Partizan's weakness

Lietkabelis Panevezys v Partizan NIS Belgrade (2022-03-08T17:00:00.000Z)

Dovydas Giedraitis - Lietkabelis Panevezys (photo Karolio Kavolelio - Lietkabelis) EC21

Buducnost VOLI Podgorica had a 7-2 record atop Group B of the 7DAYS EuroCup Regular Season two months ago, in early January. But as its latest loss, a 92-78 decision at Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana on Tuesday, made clear, spotty three-point shooting is dragging the team backward.

Three-point struggles holding Buducnost back

Buducnost shot 43.8% on two-pointers and just 23.1% from long range in the loss to Cedevita. And it wasn't the first time that its three-point shooting percentage has hurt head coach Aleksandar Dzikic's team, which has lost four of its last five games.

The Montenegrin club managed to hit 38.9% of its three-point attempts in its first loss of the season – back in Round 4 at Umana Reyer Venice, 72-67. But Buducnost's percentages from the outside in the team's other five losses were: 21.1%, 15.8%, 25.0%, 28.6% and the 23.1% versus Cedevita.

Not that Buducnost has been lights-out in its eight victories. It has connected on just 30.9% of its overall attempts from long range. That figure was 31.5% coming into Tuesday's game, ranked 18th in the league.

The result is that Buducnost has scored just 72.8 points in its six losses, as compared to 82.5 points in its eight wins, and sits third in Group B at 8-6, with either Reyer or Virtus Segafredo Bologna due to Buducnost when they play on Wednesday.

Watch the Game Highlights from Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana vs. Buducnost VOLI Podgorica, 03/08/2022

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Jaka Blazic - Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana - EC21

Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana v Buducnost VOLI Podgorica (2022-03-08T19:30:00.000Z)

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Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana v Promitheas Patras (2022-03-10T19:45:00.000Z)

Mihajlo Andric - Promitheas Patras (photo Kostas Petsas - Patras) - EC21

Hamburg Towers guard Jaylon Brown has been one of the hottest players in the 7DAYS EuroCup since mid-December.

Who's hot: Jaylon Brown, Hamburg Towers

Playing in his first EuroCup season, like just his club, Brown has been one of the competition's most prolific scorers over his last four appearances.

Brown had an up-and-down start to the season. In his first six appearances, he netted 18 points in three separate games, but averaged 8.4 in the other three. 

However, Brown caught fire in a Round 7 win over Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar in which he netted 21 points in 22 minutes, sinking 5 of 7 three-point shots. He followed that up with 20 points on 5-for-8 three-point shooting in a win over Dolomiti Energia Trento.

After missing a pair of games, Brown returned in Round 11 by scoring 10 points in a loss against Group A leader Joventut Badalona but rebounded to have one of the most impressive scoring performances by any Hamburg player the entire season in a road win over MoraBanc Andorra. Brown scored 32 points on 7-for-15 three-point shooting, adding 6 assists, 4 rebounds and 3 steals to his tally. That performance earned him the MVP of the Round honor, too.

Who's hot: Jaylon Brown Hamburg Towers

Thanks to scoring at least 20 points in three of his last four game, Brown improved his scoring average by more than 7 points, from 13.2 in the first six rounds to 20.8 over his last four games.

He improved in every other main statistical category, too, including rebounds and assists. Brown has almost doubled up on steals, picking up 1.8 per game in the last four games he played, and has averaged a PIR of 17.8, up from 9.7 in the first six rounds of the season.

Where Brown has been particularly hot is from beyond the arc.

After making 11 triples on his first 38 attempts, at an accuracy rate of just 28.9%, Brown has been one of the hottest shooters in the competition. 

He has almost as many attempts in the last four games (37) as he did in the first six (38), but he has knocked down more than half of those shots, 19 triples total, or 3.8 per game, on remarkable 51.4% shooting.

Interestingly, it cannot be said that Brown has found a favorite spot, because those long-range shots of his have been falling from just about every spot around the three-point arc.

As Hamburg returns to action this week on the road against Boulogne Metropolitans 92, Brown will try to get back to the scoring ways he has been displaying since Round 7.

Jaylon Brown - Hamburg Towers (Photo Marvin Contessi) - EC21

Valencia Basket dominated on the boards and was on fire from downtown in beating Mincidelice JL Bourg en Bresse 77-88 on Tuesday. 

Telling numbers: Valencia’s great shooting, rebounding made the difference

Valencia left it to late to take care of business in a game that was tied with 4 minutes remaining, but the underlying numbers show what a strong game the visitors played. Valencia not only outrebounded Bourg 20-37, but allowed the home team to take a mere 2 offensive rebounds. Bourg missed 29 shots and only grabbed the rebound on 6.9% of them! Mike Tobey alone had 4 offensive rebounds for Valencia, which as a team collected 10.

Klemen Prepelic had a strong three-point shooting game with 5 triples from 11 attempts, but his shooting rate was lower than the rest of the team. Altogether Valencia’s players made 15 threes at a 51.7% conversion rate. It was tied for the second-most threes by the club this season and was the second-most accurate shooting night too. Xabi Lopez-Arostegui shot 3 for 3 from downtown for Valencia and Jaime Pradilla was 2 for 2. Eight Valencia players made threes.

Mike Tobey - Valencia Basket (photo Jacques Cormareche - Bourg) - EC21

Alen Omic had nearly a perfect night in Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana’s 92-78 victory at home over Buducnost VOLI Podgorica - including hitting a three-pointer.

Telling numbers: Omic's almost perfect night included a three-pointer

The Slovenian center scored a season-high 19 points on 8-of-8 shooting and 2-of-2 on free throws to go with 8 rebounds, 1 assist, 1 steal and 1 block while committing 1 turnover and 3 fouls. All that added up to another season-high - his performance index rating of 29.

 

In fact, his last made shot was a three-pointer - a step-back triple at that, and a shot that essentially broke Buducnost’s back given that it made the score 90-76 with 89 seconds left.

Cedevita coach Jurica Golemac might have a new weapon as Omic took just his second three-pointer this season - and made his second as well. He drained his first attempt against Virtus Segafredo Bologna in Round 6.

 

The 29-year-old center had not made a three-pointer in his EuroCup career coming into this season - missing his four attempts in the EuroCup: 0/1 in 2014-15; 0/2 in 2015-16 and 0/1 in 2020-21. Omic has connected on 1-of-6 in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague - 0/2 in 2012-13 and 1/4 in 2018-19.

Alen Omic - Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana (photo Ales Ferves - Cedevita) - EC21