This is what the protagonists had to say after the Round 13 showdown between Frutti Extra Bursaspor and Promitheas Patras

Post-game quotes: Bursaspor vs. Promitheas

### Frutti Extra Bursaspor head coach Dusan Alimpijevic:

"Like I said after the game, I will repeat it once again: I am so proud of this group of people. I am so happy because they played like this. I am so grateful to be a coach of this team. This win, this fight and this hustle was for our fans and for Tolga \[Gecim\]. Tolga's injury was a really bad thing for us, for all of us. We are sorry for this and wish him a quick recovery because it is not a small injury. And I will say the last thing: I am so happy for them because don't forget that in the first game, we lost against Promitheas in Patras with three more players on this team. On top of that, we lost one more player today because of this injury, so I have to be proud and I am so happy because of that. And once again, thanks to our fans who made this unbelievable atmosphere. This is the best atmosphere in the time I have been coaching this club and I really enjoyed it, like my players. This is something special. This is something else."

### Promitheas Patras head coach Ilias Zouros:  

"First of all, congratulations to Bursa for the win. I wish them all the best in the next games. And we would also like to say congratulations to my players because they fought until the last second with full energy after a long trip."

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### Frutti Extra Bursaspor guard Andrew Andrews:

"It was a big-time win for the club, a big-time win for Bursa. Once Tolga \[Gecim\] went down, our team just had an extra push. Unfortunately, he went down, we are praying for a speedy recovery and we are just glad that we came out and got the win. We fought hard and will continue to fight hard."

Frutti Extra Bursaspor v Promitheas Patras (2022-02-08T17:00:00.000Z)

Dusan Alimpijevic - Frutti Extra Bursaspor (photo Bursaspor) - EC21-RS13

Kevarrius Hayes added 17 points for Bursaspor, Derek Needham scored 14, Onuralp Bitim 12 and Metin Turen 10. Dimitris Agravanis led the way with 19 points for Promitheas, which fell to 3-9. Kendrick Ray netted 16 and Nikolaos Gkikas had 12 for the visitors. The game came down to the closing minutes as Ray carried Promitheas to within 80-76, but Needham and Hayes took care of business in crunch time.

Dudzinski got Bursaspor going with a turnaround jumper. Andrews hit a mid-range shot and Needham buried a triple in transition for a 7-2 lead. Hayes took over with a tip-in that Ray matched with a reverse layup. Ray kept pacing Promitheas and got help from Agravanis and Jerai Grant to tie it at 11-11. Bitim sank a step-back jumper and Needham struck from downtown to boost the hosts' lead to 16-11. Turen ignited the crowd with a fastbreak layup. Mihajlo Andric found his first points and Trevis Simpson followed a dunk with a three-pointer, but Andrews and Dudznski kept Bursaspor ahead, 23-17, after 10 minutes.

Andrews insisted from beyond the arc early in the second quarter. Gkikas buried back-to-back triples and Simpson bettered Hayes's alley-oop slam with his own shot from downtown. Andric joined the three-point shootout to give Promitheas its first lead, 28-29. Andric nailed a floater and Ray added baseline jumper for a 29-33 Promitheas edge. Agravanis followed a three-pointer with a backdoor layup, but Needham answered from beyond the arc and Andrews added 2 more from three-point range to tie it at 38-38. After Turen dunked, Nikolaos Rogkavopoulos accidentally scored in his own basket and Bitim hit a jumper that gave Bursaspor a 44-43 edge at halftime.

Needham sank a floater and Hayes improved on Grant's layup with an alley-oop slam-and-one for a 49-45 Bursaspor lead. After Agravanis answered from downtown, Andrews hit a floater and Bitim made consecutive three-pointers to boost the hosts' lead to 57-48. Grant kept pushing Promitheas and Gkikas sank back-to-back corner triples in a 2-10 run that brought Promitheas as close as 59-58. Bitim sent the crowd to their feet with a wild put-back dunk and Turen added a turnaround jumper, giving Bursaspor fresh air at 63-58. Andrews followed a three-pointer with a jumper, singlehandedly boosting the hosts' margin to 70-62 after 30 minutes. 

 

Dudzinski's tip-in made it a double-digit game, 72-62, early in the fourth quarter. Agravanis scored in the low post and Ray added a driving layup and a three-pointer, giving Promitheas hope at 73-69. Hayes stepped up with a dunk and Omer Utku Al downed a corner triple. Ray answered from beyond the arc. Hayes and Dario Hunt traded layups and Agravanis made it 80-76, with 3 minutes left. Needham sank a critical three-pointer and Bitim added free throws that boosted Bursaspor's lead to 85-76 in the next-to-last minute. Little changed after that, as the hosts cruised to a much-needed home victory.

Frutti Extra Bursaspor snapped its three-game losing streak by downing Promitheas Patras 87-76 at Tofas Spor Salonu on Tuesday. Andrew Andrews scored a season-high 24 points to lead the winners, who improved to 4-7 in Group B.

Bursaspor downs Promitheas in critical showdown

Onuralp Bitim - Frutti Extra Bursaspor (photo Bursaspor) - EC21-RS13

### [Frutti Extra Bursaspor 87-76 Promitheas Patras](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/eurocup/game-center/2021-22/frutti-extra-bursaspor-promitheas-patras/U2021/129/)

In a key battle to reach the knock-out rounds, Bursaspor snapped its three-game losing streak in Group B by downing Promitheas 87-76 at Tofas Spor Salonu on Tuesday. Andrew Andrews scored a season-high 24 points to lead the winners, who improved to 4-7. Dimitris Agravanis paced Promitheas with 19 in defeat.  The loss dropped the visitors to 3-9.

### [Dolomiti Energia Trento 80-86 Boulogne Metropolitans 92](https://www.euroleaguebasketball.net/eurocup/game-center/2021-22/dolomiti-energia-trento-boulogne-metropolitans-92/U2021/124/)

Metropolitans took a big step toward the knock-out records by edging Trento 80-86 on the road on Tuesday. Will Cummings paced the winners with 21 points and 7 assists as Metropolitans won their fourth straight game to improve to 8-5 in Group A. Jordan Caroline was a bright spot with 19 points for Trento, which lost its eighth in a row and fell to 1-12. 

Despite two other games having to be suspended, the Round 13 action started on Tuesday with one showdown from each group, with all four teams jockeying for their shots at reaching the EuroCup Playoffs.

Round 13, Tuesday: Bursaspor, Metropolitans get wins

Andrew Andrews - Frutti Extra Bursaspor (photo Bursaspor) - EC21-RS13

- LIETKABELIS PANEVEZYS has been sanctioned with a fine of €2,000 for the unjustified registration of less than 10 players on the scoresheet on occasion of its home game against Dolomiti Energia Trento under Article 29.2.d) of the Euroleague Basketball Disciplinary Code.

Euroleague Basketball has announced the following disciplinary sanction pertaining to incidents that occurred in Round12  of the 7DAYS EuroCup regular season.

Round 12 disciplinary sanctions

As one of the most productive players in 7DAYS EuroCup in recent weeks, big man Tomer Ginat has been a big part of Boulogne Metropolitans 92 winning four of its last five games. 

Who's Hot: Tomer Ginat, Metropolitans

After a slower start to the season and an injury that forced him to miss two games, Tomer Ginat has been playing on a high level since the start of this calendar year. By contributing in just about any facet of the game, he has been an instrumental part in Metropolitans' rise up in the standings.

Ginat scored 10 or more points in each of the last four games. He also pulled down at least 6 rebounds in three of those four and had a PIR of at least 19 in each of Metropolitans' last three games, all victories.

Ginat started 2022 with 12 points, 7 rebounds and 2 assists in a road loss against Lietkabelis Panevezys in Round 9. He followed that with his best game of the season, when he posted 13 points, 9 rebounds and 4 rebounds in a home win over Turk Telekom Ankara.

In the team's Round 11 win at Slask Wroclaw, Ginat contributed with 10 points, 6 rebounds, 3 steals and 2 assists, before matching his season-high of 13 points to go with 4 rebounds and 3 assists, in a win over Lokomotiv Kuban Krasnodar.

Ginat scored more total points over the last four games than he did in his first six appearances of the season. It led him to improve from 7.7 points per game in his first six games to 12.0 points per game since Round 9.

But it is not just his scoring average that improved. Ginat failed to score a single three-point shot in his first 7 games and shot just 9 free throw attempts over that span. Since then, however, Ginat has made 3 of 4 triples and has gone to the free-throw line twice as often, attempting 18 free throws in the last three games, making 13 of them.

In addition to all that, Ginat's involvement and role in Metropolitans' recent success includes him dishing 1.5 assists until Round 9, but almost doubling that figure to 2.8 per game since. Also, Ginat had 4 steals in the last four games after getting only 1 steal in the earlier part of the season.

It all led to Ginat being one of the most productive players in recent weeks. Over the last three rounds, Ginat has accumulated a performance index rating of 60. That's second-best on the team and seventh-best in the competition over that stretch.

Such performances have played a big part in Metropolitans climbing to fourth place in Group A standings, and Ginat will look to continue performing at this level on Tuesday when his team visits Dolomiti Energia Trento.

Tomer Ginat - Boulogne Metropolitans 92 (photo Olivier dAlmeida - Metropolitans) - EC21

### Joventut Badalona head coach Carles Duran:

"This is a tough trip for us, not comfortable. Turk Telekom is a strong team at home and they have talented players. We will have to show our best face if we want to have options to win in Turkey. It's true that we are standing in a privileged spot, but we have to stay solid and keep playing as we have done, with ambition. They can beat any team, as they showed by beating Partizan. We have to be as good as we can be."

### Joventut Badalona player Joel Parra:

"This will be a difficult game because they have yet to lose in Ankara this season. Also, it will be a long trip, so we will have to be very focused. Tuk Telekom is a good team and they will punish us if we do not perform. They have a tough roster and even if they started a bit lukewarm in the EuroCup, they are rock-solid in Turkey, with players like Perez, Johnson and Harrison. We will have to be ready to play a good game."

Here are some insightful comments about the game from the protagonists themselves.

Pre-game quotes: Turk Telekom vs. Joventut

Turk Telekom Ankara v Joventut Badalona (2022-02-09T17:00:00.000Z)

Joel Parra - Joventut Badalona (Photo Marvin Contessi) - EC21

### ratiopharm Ulm head coach Jaka Lakovic:

"We will face a strong team from Ljubljana, which has one of the strongest rosters over the last years, in my opinion. They’re also very well-coached. We will have to be very solid defensively and protect the defensive rebounds, to be able to have options for the win."

### Cedevita Olimpija head coach Jurica Golemac:

"Ulm is a very disciplined team and the list of players includes four basketball players who have already played in the NBA in their careers. The team is made up of very good players, and Ulm is having a great season, so it is definitely not an easy match ahead of us. We have to play disciplined and at the same time fast and hard on defense."

### Cedevita Olimpija player Jaka Blazic:

"A tough away game awaits us. Ulm is surprising everyone with their play this season. Our rivals have beaten big teams such as Virtus Segafredo Bologna and Buducnost VOLI. We are heading to Germany with the mindset of winning the match. I hope for the best possible outcome."

Pre-game quotes: ratiopharm Ulm vs. Cedevita Olimpija

ratiopharm Ulm v Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana (2022-02-09T18:30:00.000Z)

The matchup between Valencia Basket's veteran point guard Sam Van Rossom and his Virtus Segafredo Bologna counterpart Alessandro Pajola is one to watch. 

Major matchup: Van Rossom, Valencia vs. Pajola, Virtus

A two-time EuroCup champion with Valencia Basket, Sam Van Rossom is in his ninth season with the club. Van Rossom had a great game against Virtus Segafredo Bologna in Round 4, leading Valencia to a 96-97 victory with 15 points. 6 assists and a PIR of 20. Van Rossom is having yet another strong season, averaging 9.4 points on 57.1% three-point shooting and 4.5 assists. 

Van Rossom must be ready for an intriguing matchup against Alessandro Pajola, who is seeing extended playing time at point guard while Milos Teodosic remains sidelined. Pajola has stepped up big, averaging 6.7 assists in the three games Teodosic missed. A steals specialist, Pajola collected 6 against ratiopharm Ulm in Round 2 and could give Van Rossom trouble at La Fonteta. 

Valencia Basket v Virtus Segafredo Bologna (2022-02-09T19:45:00.000Z)

The matchup between Turk Telekom Ankara forward JaJuan Johnson and his Joventut Badalona counterpart Derek Willis is one to watch.

Major matchup: Johnson, Turk Telekom vs. Willis, Joventut 

Turk Telekom remains undefeated at home in the EuroCup this season and needs its most experienced players to step up against an experienced squad, Joventut. No Turk Telekom player is more experienced than Johnson, a EuroCup champion with Darussafaka Istanbul in 2018. He is averaging 12.8 points and 5.4 rebounds thus far. His size, quickness and versatility are always a plus for any team.

Willis should be Joventut's first option at power forward and therefore the main candidate to guard Johnson due to his great athleticism. He is fast, explosive and in good form lately, averaging 15.0 points, 7.0 rebounds and a PIR of 21.5 over his last two games. In his second EuroCup season, Willis is averaging 8.8 points and 5.4 rebounds in less than 23 minutes per night. Watch out for these two players on Wednesday. 

JaJuan Johnson - Turk Telekom Ankara (photo Wojciech Cebula - Slask) - EC21