Flirting with triple-doubles
One of them won and the other lost, but two players flirted with triple-doubles in Round 2. One of the round's tri-MVPs, J'Covan Brown of Hapoel Tel Aviv, combined for 21 points, 12 assists and 8 rebounds in just his second EuroCup game ever. He played 37 minutes and Hapoel won 86-100 at Paris Basketball. Not so fortunate was Josh Adams of Cevebita Olimpija Ljubljana, whose 25-point, 9-assist and 6-rebound performance was cut short with just under 5 minutes left to play due to a hand injury. He had played most of the game until then. Cedevita fell to host U-BT Cluj-Napoca 94-76.
Bircevic keyed Cluj's historic first win
Veteran forward Stefan Bircevic had played 27 EuroCup games before Cluj's home opener on Wednesday. The 32-year-old chose the occasion to post his career high in points, with 24, and match his best PIR, with 26. It was more than eight years ago, when he debuted in the EuroCup with Radnicki Kragujevac, that his second-best efforts took place. He played the abbreviated 2019-20 season with Partizan Belgrade, too, but never put it all together like this week. His big night will be remembered as a major reason that Cluj won its first EuroCup game ever.