Here are some interesting facts about one of the 7DAYS EuroCup finalists, Frutti Extra Bursaspor.
Frutti Extra Bursaspor: Did you know...?
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...Frutti Extra Bursaspor is in its first 7DAYS EuroCup Final! It is just its second season in the competition.
...Frutti Extra Bursaspor can become the third Turkish team to win the 7DAYS EuroCup? Galatasaray Istanbul was the first Turkish team to win the EuroCup in 2016, and Darussafaka Istanbul lifted the trophy in 2018.
...Frutti Extra Bursaspor was founded in 2014? It took the team eight years to go from the Turkish third division to the 7DAYS EuroCup Final!
...Dusan Alimpijevic can become the second Serbian coach to win the EuroCup title? Dusan Ivkovic, who led Dynamo Moscow to the 2007 title, was the first Serbian coach to win it.
...Andrew Andrews averaged 4.1 points and a PIR of 3.6 in his first games of the season? Andrews went on to average 22.0 points and a PIR of 23.8 in the next 11 games, leading Bursaspor to the final!
...John Holland is the second player in 7DAYs EuroCup Finals history to reach the final in back-to-back seasons. Edu Hernandez-Sonseca was the only player until now, winning the competition with Real Madrid in 2007 and Joventut Badalona in 2008.
...Tolga Gecim can list a exclusive list of players who won the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague and 7DAYS EuroCup titles? Gecim, currently injured, helped Anadolu Efes Istanbul win the EuroLeague crown in 2021, and is with Bursaspor now! Only 17 players won both competitions, including stars like Nando De Colo, Ricky Rubio, Rudy Fernandez and Dejan Tomasevic.
...Derek Needham ranks 10th in assists (4.9 apg.), seventh in steals (1.4 spg.) and eighth in three-point shooting (49.1%)? He is the only player to rank Top 10 in all three stats categories this season.
...Kevarrius Hayes ranks eighth in rebounds (6.9 rpg.), fourth in blocks (1.1 bpg.) and also fourth in stals (1.5 spg.)? Only one other player ranked Top 10 in all three stats categories - Vince Hunter of Boulogne Metropolitans 92.
...David Dudzinski is one of two members of the 60-40-80 club this season? Dudzinski hit 61.1% of its two-pointers, 43.5% from downtown and 82.6% of his free throw attempts. Pierre Pelos of Mincidelice JL Bourg en Bresse (60.0% 2FG, 46.3% 3FG, 91.3% FT) is the other player with such accuracy.
...Frutti Extra Bursaspor has scored at least 85 points in each of its last six games? Coach Alimpijevic's team is 7-1 in its last eight EuroCup games.