In a one-game, do-or-die playoff, anything can happen, but some season-long statistical trends may offer clues to the possible storylines when Joventut Badalona hosts ratiopharm Ulm in their 7DAYS EuroCup Eighthfinals winner-take-all duel.
Eighthfinals clues: Joventut Badalona vs. ratiopharm Ulm
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Joventut has been one of the better offensive teams in the EuroCup this season, but it has been by far the most efficient defensive unit. Ulm leaned on its ability to shoot the ball from the perimeter and created quality shots consistently when looking to play inside-out to earn the eighth seed in Group B, but Joventut led all teams in efficiency defending the post and the three-point line in the half-court.
Ulm's ability to find ways to score figures to be put under the microscope in the eighthfinals. After winning seven games in a row mid-season, Joventut lost its last two road games. Struggling some to score in those road defeats, its finish as the top overall seed among the four teams that finished with 12 wins simplifies the team’s path as it looks to regain the rhythm that made helped it dominate the middle portion of the regular season at Palau Olimpic de Badalona.