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Paris blows past Reyer, 100-70



Paris Basketball showed just why it is the Group A leader with a 100-70 blowout win against the visiting Umana Reyer Venice on Tuesday night in Round 11 of the 2023-24 BKT EuroCup Regular Season. Paris improved to a 10-1 record following this win while Reyer dropped to a 4-7 mark, with the Italian side sitting just outside the top six playoff spots.
Reyer battled for a quarter and a half and led 33-34 midway through the second quarter, but Paris went on a run that set a 51-39 scoreline at halftime. The French team led by as many as 32 points, 87-55, entering the final minute of the third quarter, before coasting its way to another win. The hosts had six scorers in double figures. Nadir Hifi scored 18 points in 19 minutes and Tyson Ward had 17 on 7-for-7 two-point shooting. TJ Shorts had 13 points and 6 assists, Collin Malcolm netted 12 points, Mehdy Ngouama added 11 and Justin Simon contributed 10. For Reyer, Jordan Parks scored 16 and Alexander O'Connell finished with 13.
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A close game early on
Reyer got off to a good start, with Aamir Simms and Amedeo Tessitori hitting a triple apiece to make it 8-12. Paris answered with a 9-1 run, sparked by Hifi and capped by Malcolm's three-point play. But Rayjon Tucker's three-pointer sparked a 0-7 run and, despite Shorts netting 5 points for the hosts, Barry Brown's last-second coast-to-coast bucket tied it at 24-24 after 10 minutes.
Paris began to pull away
Simms and Parks scored inside for Reyer to go up 26-30 in the second, but Bandja Sy hit Paris's first three-pointer after the team had gone 0-for-10 until that point. Kyle Wiltjer's triple kept Reyer ahead, 33-34, but Hifi answered with back-to-back daggers from downtown, and Simon's three-point play helped make it 45-37. A pair of baskets from Shorts capped an 18-5 quarter-ending spurt, sending the teams into halftime with Paris up 51-39.
Reyer couldn't deal with Paris
Tessitori opened the second half with a three-pointer, but it was all Paris after that as the hosts scored 11 unanswered points, including a tip-in after a missed free throw from Leon Kratzer and a three-point play from Malcolm. A dunk from Sy opened a 62-42 scoreline, but the margin continued to grow as Hifi, Sy and Mikael Jantunen hit a three-pointer each. Then, a three-point play from Ngouama made it 76-51. After Simms made a basket for the visitors, Paris scored the next 9 points to go up by 32 points, 85-53. Wiltjer's back-to-back triples made it 87-61 at the end of three quarters.
Paris coasted to the win
The scoring slowed down in the fourth quarter. Paris managed to score just a single field goal in the first 5 minutes of the fourth, but Reyer only managed to close within 80-66, after which the margin grew again as Paris closed it out with another 100-point performance.