Regular Season
Round 18 of 18
Regular Season
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Gran CanariaGCA
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Veolia Towers HamburgHAM
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Gran Canaria beats Hamburg, 86-73, to secure overall No. 1 seed
Game Report
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Gran Canaria made sure it finished the regular season with the best record in the competition by downing Veolia Towers Hamburg 86-73 at home in Round 18 on Wednesday. Gran Canaria finished Group B with a 15-3 record and earned the right to be the top-seeded team in the playoffs and to have home-court advantage in each and every round it takes part in. Hamburg was locked into eighth place, finished the regular season with a 6-12 record and is set to face Group A's top-ranked team, Prometey Slobozhanske, in the eighthfinals.
Nico Brussino led a balanced Gran Canaria offense with 15 points. Ten of his teammates scored 5 points or more. Ziga Samar led Hamburg with 17 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists. Yoeli Childs had 10 points, all in the second half, for the visitors.
Samar hit a jumper and fed Anthony Polite for a triple that gave Hamburg a 1-5 lead. Brussino had a layup, a three-pointer and a dunk in an 11-2 run that Khalifa Diop capped with a put-back layup. Diop had a huge slam and Ferran Bassas struck from downtown to boost the hosts' lead to 19-10. Lukas Meisner and A.J. Slaughter joined the three-point shootout, fixing the score at 22-13 after 10 minutes.
Christoph Phillips and Seth Heinrichs each struck from beyond the arc in a 0-12 Hamburg run that Polite capped with a big dunk for a 27-30 lead. Brussino buried consecutive triples and got help from John Shurna and Olek Balcerowski to restore a 41-33 Gran Canaria edge at halftime.
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Brussino's backdoor layup made it a double-digit game, 43-33, right after the break. Childs found his first points, then Polite gave Hamburg hope at 45-39. Jovan Kljajic scored at the other end and Oliver Stevic kept Gran Canaria out of trouble, 49-39. Vitor Benite followed a triple with a jumper but Samar and Childs kept the visitors within 59-52. Andrew Albicy buried a jumper and found Shurna for a fastbreak slam, helping Gran Canaria boost its margin to 69-53 after 30 minutes.
Miquel Salvo sank a three-pointer to break the game open, 77-55, as Hamburg did not recover in the final 7 minutes.
