Gran Canaria has the longest active winning streak in Group B, at three games, and sharp-shooting guard Dylan Ennis has everything to do with it.
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After losing the season opener on its home floor against Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana, Gran Canaria enters Round 5 on a three-game winning streak, the longest current such run in Group B.
During this span, Gran Canaria guard Dylan Ennis has been on fire.
Gran Canaria's victory parade started with a pair of dramatic road wins, an 81-85 decision at Promitheas Patras and an 89-90 win over Valencia Basket. Last week in Round 4, Gran Canaria's did not allow a first-quarter field goal in holding Mincidelice JL Bourg en Bresse to 3 points in 10 minutes en route to a 78-49 drubbing.
Ennis has starred in each game.
In the win over Promitheas, Ennis netted a team-high 20 points in just over 20 minutes. He shot 2-for-5 on two-pointers while knocking down 5 of 9 threes. A week later, in a win over Valencia, Ennis scored 16 points, making 5 of 7 twos and 2 of 6 threes.
Last week, Ennis again led Gran Canaria in scoring, finishing the game with 19 points, going 4-for-6 on two-pointers and 2-for-6 on three-pointers in dismantling Bourg.
In addition to averaging 18.3 points in Gran Canaria's three victories, Ennis is also posting 5.3 rebounds, 2.0 steals and 1.3 assists in those games. It led to him accumulating a total of 61 index rating points for an average of 20.3, ranking him fourth among all EuroCup players since Round 2.
This is Ennis's third season in the competition. He made his debut in the 2018-19 with MoraBanc Andorra and played with AS Monaco a season later.
Over those two seasons, Ennis averaged 11.9 points, 4.0 rebounds, 3.1 assists and 1.3 steals. Entering this season, he also had shot 42.8% on two-pointers and 29.0% on three-pointers for his career.
In the last three games, his shooting numbers have significantly improved.
Ennis has made multiple triples in each game this season and has shot 9-for-21 over the last three games. At the same time, he has missed just 7 two-point shots during his team's winning run, making 11 of 18 tries on 61.1% accuracy.
What has also made Ennis's performances even more valuable has been his ability to limit turnovers. For a player so involved in his team's offense, not only has Ennis committed just 6 turnovers in the last three games, but there are 61 players who average more than his 3.2 turnovers per-40 minutes over that three-game span.
Ennis will try to maintain the level of his performances this week, when Gran Canaria visits Frutti Extra Bursaspor, whose coach Dusan Alimpijevic knows a thing or two about what Ennis can do, as the two were together at Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade three years ago.