Buducnost VOLI Podgorica moved to the top of the Group B standings on Wednesday night after beating Dolomiti Energia Trento at Moraca Sports Center.
Buducnost found another gear to down Trento, 73-58
Marko Jagodic-Kuridza had a game-high 20 points for the hosts, while Igor Drobnjak and Petar Popovic also got into double figures with 15 and 11 points, respectively. Alpha Kaba only had 7 points for Buducnost, but he had a dominant night on the glass, finishing with 16 rebounds. Trento had Darion Atkins score 16 points, Trent Lockett contribute 14, Diego Flaccadori add 12 and Toto Forray chip in with 10, yet it was not enough as the visitors fell to a 73-58 defeat.
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Trento made a good start to the game, led by 5 points from Atkins to open a 0-5 lead. Buducnost began to fight back, but then Lockett stepped up for the Italians with 7 points. Flaccadori and Andrejs Grazulis helped Trento go 10-18 ahead, but what followed was a 27-4 run between the end of the first quarter and seven minutes into the second, which put Buducnost up 37-22. Trento looked to respond, but it went into the break trailing 42-29, thanks in part to 11 second-quarter points by Jagodic-Kuridza. The visitors opened the third quarter with a 0-11 run to cut the gap to two points, 42-40, but 5 points from Jagodic-Kuridza gave Buducnost some breathing room once again. There was an eight-point difference, 54-46, entering the fourth quarter. While Buducnost extended it out to 12, 58-46, inside the first 47 seconds, Trento hit back with eight straight points to make things interesting at 58-54 with just under six minutes remaining. However, that's when Drobnjak came to the fore, scoring 10 of his 15 points in the final stages of the game to ensure that Buducnost came away with the win to improve to 5-2. Trento recorded its first victory of the season last week, but this defeat means that it is now 1-6 on the season.