Valencia Basket is on a three-game winning streak and the winner in seven of its last eight games. The hottest player on one of the hottest teams in the 7DAYS EuroCup is sharpshooter Klemen Prepelic.
Who's hot: Klemen Prepelic, Valencia Basket
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The veteran guard is playing in his sixth season in the competition with a sixth different team. Prepelic has been knocking down shots better than any player on the team in recent weeks and better than just about any player in the competition.
Over the last four rounds, Rounds 12 through Round 15, only one player in the EuroCup has scored more points than Prepelic.
Prepelic has totaled 74 points since Round 12, good for an average of 18.5. In that four-round span, he's bagged more points than any player not named Jarron Blossomgame of ratiopharm Ulm.
Prepelic got his hot run going after halftime of the overtime road loss against Gran Canaria. He scored all of his 18 points that night in the second half, making 4 of 10 triples for the game.
The Valencia sharpshooter topped that performance the following week in a resounding home win over Virtus Segafredo Bologna. In a rare appearance in the starting lineup, he netted 19 points in 18 minutes, making 3 of 7 three-pointers.
Prepelic's run did not stop there. He scored 18 points again in the Round 14 win at Mincidelice JL Bourg en Bresse, knocking down 5 of 11 shots from three-pointer range and then followed it up with another 19-point performance in a home win over Umana Reyer Venice, a game in which he shot 3 for 9 from downtown.
Since Round 12, Prepelic has made 15 triples in just four games, after netting 18 threes in his first nine appearances. Apart from making three-point shots and averaging 18.5 points, after scoring 12.3 in his first nine games of the season, Prepelic also improved his three-point accuracy, shooting 40.5% during this three-game stretch, up from 29.0% before Round 12.
Prepelic is now poised to continue his hot streak in Round 16 on the road against Frutti Extra Bursaspor, a team that has allowed a EuroCup-high 41.0% shooting from behind the arc.