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Aris roars its way to 81-85 win at Reyer



Aris Thessaloniki Betsson recorded a statement win in Round 1 of the 2025-26 BKT EuroCup season by downing Umana Reyer Venice 81-85 on the road.
Bryce Jones and Bryn Forbes combined for 44 of Aris’s points on the night, with the former scoring 26 points and the latter pouring in 18. It was an all-around performance by Jones as he also amassed 8 rebounds, 6 assists and 1 steal. Ronnie Harrell, who returned to Aris this past summer, added 13 points and Stelios Poulianitis chipped in with 10. Reyer’s top scorer was Ky Bowman with 14 points, followed by Chris Horton with 13, and Kyle Wiltjer with 12.
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Although Jones and Forbes helped give Aris a 3-7 lead early on, Jordan Parks and Wiltjer joined forces as part of a 9-0 run to give Reyer a 12-7 edge. Wiltjer helped push the lead to 17-9, but Aris responded through Steven Enoch, Harrell and Georgios Gkiouzelis before Forbes’s three cut the gap to two points, 21-19. A triple by Carl Wheatle and a free throw by Amedeo Tessitori gave Reyer a 27-20 advantage after 10 minutes.
Bowman put Reyer nine points ahead early in the second, 29-20, but Forbes, Harrell and Jones refused to go away, combining to make it 33-31. Although RJ Cole and Bowman gave the hosts breathing room at 38-31, Harrell netted 6 straight points to maintain the pressure, 38-37, and Poulianitis gave Aris its first lead since 3-7 at 38-39. At halftime, there was nothing to separate the teams as the score was knotted at 49-49.
The lead kept changing hands for the majority of the third frame, but it was Aris which finally led by more than one possession when Forbes’s triple put the guests 62-66 ahead with 2:21 remaining in the quarter. Jones and Enoch swelled the advantage to 62-70 before Parks’s three-pointer made it 65-70 heading into the fourth quarter.
There was an expected late charge from Reyer, yet Enoch and Poulianitis kept things comfortable at 68-76. Jones kept charging for Aris, too, fighting off the best efforts of Horton and Bowman to flip the script. The Aris guard netted 10 of his 26 points in the final quarter, with the last three putting the win on ice as split free throws before going coast to coast to score the final basket of the game.