

Dolomiti Energia Trento rekindled its hopes of reaching the EuroCup knockout rounds after coming out on top 85-80 at home over Veolia Towers Hamburg in a gripping rollercoaster. Forward Mattia Udom paced the hosts with 18 points and Diego Flaccadori poured in 15, while Luca Conti added 14 and Drew Crawford chipped in with 11.
James Woodard netted a game-high 23 points but his valiant solo effort was not enough to give Hamburg a second successive win. Marvin Clark scored 14 points for the visitors, Ziga Samar contributed 12, Lukas Meisner 11 and Seth Hinrichs 10. The outcome lifted Trento to a 2-6 record in Group B while Hamburg dropped to 3-5.
Trento raced into a 7-0 lead in the opening 90 seconds but Hamburg replied with a 14-2 run that forced the home team’s coach Emanuele Molin to call a timeout. Hamburg kept its momentum going and engineered a 20-16 advantage at the end of the first quarter on the back of 11 points from Woodard.
The guard capped it with a three-pointer on the buzzer and Hamburg was still in the driving seat in the latter stages of the second quarter as Hinrichs sank a three-pointer to give them a 33-28 lead. Trento’s revival started with a pair of successive long-range efforts by Conti and the home team appeared set to take a slender halftime lead into the locker room before Woodard buried a long three-pointer on the buzzer, with Hamburg nosing ahead 42-41.
However, Woodard’s offense dried up after the break and Trento got a grip on the game as Flaccadori and Conti found their range while Udom tormented Hamburg from all angles, mixing shots from downtown with a powerful slam dunk.
Trento never looked back after a 19-8 run late in the third and early in the fourth quarter turned a 53-57 deficit into a 72-65 advantage, with a three-pointer from Udom sealing the home side’s win as it romped to an 82-73 lead. Hamburg launched one last onslaught in the dying minutes of the game but Trento held on thanks to cool free-throw shooting.