

Sometimes, the story to a game is simple: one team shot better than the other team. That was certainly the case at BTarena on Wednesday evening, as Mincidelice JL Bourg en Bresse came away with a 79-88 win at U-BT Cluj-Napoca to retain its place atop the standings in Group A of the 7DAYS EuroCup.
Bourg finished the game with a percentage of 68.8% from two-point range after going 22-of-32. Interestingly, the lowest percentage a player from the visiting team managed from inside the arc was 50.0%, with this being the case for James Palmer, Hugo Benitez and Jordan Floyd. Meanwhile, five Bourg players scored 100.0% of their two-pointers. In the case of Cluj, it went 18-of-34 on these shots, good enough for 52.9%.
As is to be expected, it was a different story from deep, yet Bourg once again came out on top. While Bourg made 10 of its 25 three-point shots (40.0% 3FG), Cluj saw 8 of its 29 triples fall (27.6% 3FG). This was another of the keys to the game.
On free throws, too, Bourg was almost perfect from the line, going 14-of-15 (93.3%), whereas Cluj went 19-of-26 (73.1%). Cluj outrebounded Bourg by 36-31, but it was never going to win with shooting percentages like these.