### Aleksandar Dzikic, Buducnost VOLI Podgorica head coach

"To be honest, I’m a little surprised at how we played. In the end, there was a big difference, but no serious man can say that he expected this. Our situation is as it is, it will not change for the next game, and during the FIBA window we will not have eight national team players. So a difficult time is in front of us."

### Jurica Golemac, Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljanahead coach

"Congratulations to Buducnost. They deserved the win. They controlled the game. They were stronger, faster and more focused. We disappeared from the court. We didn't fight. We didn't score and of course, as always in basketball, when somebody feels comfortable, then they score some tough shots and win with a big gap."

Post-Game Quotes: Buducnost 91-60 Cedevita Olimpija

Buducnost VOLI Podgorica v Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana (2021-11-17T18:00:00.000Z)

ratiopharm Ulm dominated the glass against Promitheas Patras 35-29. What’s more, the hosts had 15 offensive rebounds to just 3 by their opponents.

By the numbers: Ulm’s rebounding advantage goes for naught

However, Ulm did not maximize that advantage, getting only 9 second-chance points. The reason for the offensive-rebounding advantage – and the reason it was not capitalized on – come from the fact that Promitheas terrified the Ulm shooters in the paint. Jerai Grant and Dario Hunt both tied the club record with 3 blocks and the hosts shot just 14 for 39 (35.9%) on two-pointers. In contrast, Promitheas made 17 of 28 shots (60.7%) in the arc. The visitors also shot better on threes, making 9 of 20 (45%) compared to 8 of 24 (33.3%) by Ulm.

ratiopharm Ulm v Promitheas Patras (2021-11-17T18:30:00.000Z)

Promitheas Patras guard Kendrick Ray had a rough time in the first half, which he finished with just 2 points, 3 assists, 3 turnovers and a PIR of minus-1.

Pivotal player: Ray comes up big in second half

He came alive in the third quarter when he scored 9 of his team’s 23 points and played a big role the rest of the way. Ray finished the night with 14 points, 6 assists and 5 turnovers for a PIR of 13. He scored twice and had an assist in a 0-10 third-quarter run that gave Promitheas the lead. After Ulm tied it, Ray added 5 points in a 0-11 run that gave his team the lead for good. His final basket, a three that made it 53-66 in the fourth quarter, gave the visitors their biggest lead of the night.

Neither team shot the lights out from deep, but Trento had more players helping the cause to beat Slask.

By the numbers: Trento spread around the threes

The hosts made 9 of 27 overall, but had five players contributing three-pointers: 3 from Diego Flaccadori, 2 each from Desonta Bradford and Cameron Reynolds, plus single shots from downtown by Johnathan Williams and Andrea Mezzanotte. By contrast, Slask saw Jakub Karolak go 4-for-6 from deep after making his first 3 tries. However, the rest of his teammates made only 1 shot out of 25, with only Lukasz Kolenda connecting on 1 of his 5 tries. Six other players tried but missed on 20 tries and the team ended up with 16.1% accuracy from the arc, very much explaining the loss.

Dolomiti Energia Trento v Slask Wroclaw (2021-11-17T19:00:00.000Z)

In a battle for a first victory between them in Group A, host Dolomiti Energia Trento outlasted Slask Wroclaw by 81-77 in overtime on Wednesday to break into the race for the playoffs. Trento is now 1-4 while Slask fell to 0-5. Trento shot ahead 8-2 after tipoff but Slask reeled it back to lead 16-23 after the first quarter and held on by 34-38 at halftime. The visitors had their high lead of 51-60 early in the fourth quarter, but Trento rallied to force overtime and seize the victory. Diego Flaccadori, the catalyst of the comeback, led Trento with 22 points. Johnathan Williams posted 17 points, 10 rebounds and 3 blocks in just under 40 minutes. Cameron Reynolds scored 12 more, Desonta Bradford 11 and Wesley Saunders 10 for Trento. For Slask, Kerem Kanter had a huge double-double with 17 points and 15 rebounds. Jakub Karolak followed with 15 points, while Martins Meiers scored 11 and Kodi Justice 10 for the visitors.



Trento rallies for first win, 81-77 over Slask, in OT

Williams from deep and Cyril Langevine inside got their teams on the scoreboard. Flaccadori struck from the arc and Williams added a layup as Trento seized an 8-2 start. Kanter settled Slask with a couple of layups at 10-6, but Flaccadori answered for Trento. Wesley Saunders joined Trento's scorers while free throws by Kanter and Kodi Justice allowed Slask to forge a 14-14 score. Flaccadori broke the score by Martins Meiers re-tied it and Jakub Karolak gave Slask a first lead from the corner, 16-19. Karolak was back at quarter's end with a long buzzer-beater off the glass as Slask led 16-23 through 10 minutes.

Toto Forray got a basket back quickly to open the second quarter and Andrea Mezzanotte buried a triple at 21-23. Meiers and Lukasz Kolenda answered for Slask but Desonta Bradford soon detonated a dunk to start a three-point play that tie dit again, 27-27. Aleksander Dziewa joined Slask's scorers and eventually Luca Conti took the lead back for Trento with 3 free throws, 30-29. Dziewa flipped the scoreboard again with a three-point play, as did Cameron Reynolds for Trento with one shot to make it 33-32. Justice supplied another lead change before Conti's free throw tied it again, 34-34. Dziewa and Ivan Ramljak pushed the visitors ahead 34-38 at the break from the foul line.

Kolenda bettered a basket by Saunders with a triple and his own two-pointer to make it 36-43 soon after halftime. Reynolds revived Trento with a shot from the arc to which Saunders added a layup at 41-43. Ramljak and Kanter kept Trento at bay until Meiers returned for a basket at 45-49. Justice and Williams traded twos before Kanter went back door to make it 47-53. Williams scored 4 in a row to keep Trento within striking distance but Justice hit a fall-away shot as Slask remained ahead 51-57 after 30 minutes.

Karolak returned to blast a corner triple to open the fourth quarter, but Flaccadori matched him by converting a layup-plus-free throw at 54-60. Flaccadori hit again from the top of the lane to before Justice stole and fed Dziewa at 56-63. When Karolak got loose for a layup, Slask had its highest lead, 9 points, but Flaccadori struck from deep to keep Trento alive with 6 minutes left. Then he did it again, making it 62-65 and getting the crowd back into it. Dziewa settled Slask with free throws that Saunders matched with a turnaround shot at 64-67. Bradford did the honors of tying the game 67-67 with a Euro-step fastbreak layup with 2 minutes left. Dueling steals brought it down to a minute, but Karolak's first miss gave Trento a chance and Flaccadori took it, driving the lane to score the go-ahead shot with 40 seconds left. Travis Trice answered with its first basket for another tie, 69-69, with 27 seconds left. Flaccadori couldn't repeat his magic at the finish, though, sending the game to overtime.

Williams struck first for Trento in the extra time and then Bradford beat the shot-clock from deep at 74-69. Karolak and Kanter kept Slask within 74-72 but Flaccadori hit a jumper and Bradford came through again from the arc to make it 79-72 with under 2 minutes left. Karolak struck with his own three-pointer for Slask but Williams stuck a shorter shot going into the final minute. Kanter put back the second of his two missed free throws with 45.6 seconds left, but that was the visitors' last gasp and Trento held on for the victory.

In a battle for a first victory between them in Group A, host Dolomiti Energia Trento outlasted Slask Wroclaw by 81-77 in overtime on Wednesday to break into the race for the playoffs. Trento is now 1-4 while Slask fell to 0-5. Trento shot ahead 8-2 after tipoff but Slask reeled it back to lead 16-23 after the first quarter and held on by 34-38 at halftime. The visitors had their high lead of 51-60 early in the fourth quarter, but Trento rallied to force overtime and seize the victory. Diego Flaccadori, the catalyst of the comeback, led Trento with 22 points. Johnathan Williams posted 17 points, 10 rebounds and 3 blocks in just under 40 minutes. Cameron Reynolds scored 12 more, Desonta Bradford 11 and Wesley Saunders 10 for Trento. For Slask, Kerem Kanter had a huge double-double with 17 points and 15 rebounds. Jakub Karolak followed with 15 points, while Martins Meiers scored 11 and Kodi Justice 10 for the visitors.

Big man Kerem Kanter set a Slask Wroclaw club record in the EuroCup with 15 rebounds while spending 37 minutes on the floor for the visitors, but it wasn't enough to hold back Trento.

Kanter's big night wasn't enough for Slask

Kanter's total was the second-highest in the EuroCup this season and came with 17 points, for a PIR of 35, tied for third-best in Slask's history in the competition.

Promitheas Patras took charge in the second half to defeat ratiopharm Ulm 65-71 on Wednesday at ratiopharm Arena for its second straight win. The visitors fell behind early, but closed to within 32-31 at halftime before Kendrick Ray and Isaiah Miles heated up in the third quarter to give Promitheas a lead, which it added to and led by as many as 13 in the fourth to secure the win. Ray finished with 14 points and 6 assists, Miles scored 11 and Jerai Grant scored 10 as Promitheas improved to 2-3 in Group B. Thomas Klepeisz scored a career-high 22 points to lead Ulm, which fell to 2-3. Semaj Christon added 20 points and 4 assists and Fedor Zugic scored 11 in defeat.

Promitheas rallies to win in Ulm, 65-71

Christon and Grant opened the scoring for their respective teams. Klepeisz heated up with a triple and a pair of free throws to put Ulm on top and Karim Jallow added a steal and layup for a 9-4 lead. Zugic banked in a three that stretched the lead to 16-8 before Nikos Gkikas responded from downtown for Promitheas. Dario Hunt scored inside for the visitors and Dimitris Agravanis’s reverse layup made it 20-15 after 10 minutes.

Hunt sank free throws to get Promitheas within 3 before Ulm expanded the lead through Christon. Grant scored at the rim to make it 26-21 midway through the second quarter. After a timeout by Ulm, Nikos Rogkavopoulos and Klepeisz traded threes. Abdul Gaddy trimmed the deficit before Rogkavopoulos took a steal coast to coast to tie it at 29-29. Zugic hit a three and was fouled before Gkikas beat the buzzer with a jumper to make it 32-31 at the break.

Agravanis scored first in the second half to give Promitheas its first lead. Grant netted a foul-line jumper and Ray added a jumper to make it 36-41, which prompted a timeout by Ulm. Little changed at first as a Cristiano Felicio turnover led to another bucket by Ray and a 7-point Promitheas lead. Christon sandwiched a pair of scores around an assist to Klepeisz on a triple to even things at 43-43 with 3 minutes to go in the third quarter. Promitheas called timeout after which Miles and Ray took charge with all the points in a 0-11 run.  Klepeisz was fouled shooting a three and made the resulting free throws to get within 46-54 through three quarters.

Gkikas and Miles made threes early in the fourth to restore a double-digit lead, 50-60. Klepeisz came through with a three for the hosts but was promptly met by back-to-back threes by Charis Giannopoulos and Ray for a 13-point lead. Ulm looked to rally late as free throws by Klepeisz and a fade-away jumper by Philipp Herkenhoff made it 59-68. Klepeisz’s fifth triple got Ulm within 7 with 90 seconds remaining. Zugic converted another triple with 28.9 seconds to go that drew the hosts within 65-69. However, free throws by Agravanis with 20.1 seconds left all but secured the outcome.

Dolomiti Energia Trento was staring at a 51-60 fourth-quarter deficit, 51-60, on its own court with the prospect of losing its fifth game to start Group B of the EuroCup when Diego Flaccadori came alive.

Pivotal Performer: Flaccadori saved Trento vs. Slask

The 25-year-old swingman, who returned to Trento last summer after two seasons abroad with FC Bayern Munich, took the team on his shoulders with 13 points in the next nine minutes as the hosts forced overtime. He was needed only for another basket in the extra period, but without him, Trento would not have been there. He finished with a career-high 22 points in his fourth EuroCup season and added 6 rebounds and 4 assists to achieve Trento's first win from what seemed like a lost cause when he changed the momentum almost single-handedly.

Justin Cobbs had a near-perfect performance to lead his team, Buducnost VOLI Podgorica to a no-doubt-about-it home victory against Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana.

Cobbs has career night

Cobbs finished the game with 33 points, a new personal best, on 6-of-9 two-point shooting, 3-of-3 on three-pointers and 12-of-12 on free throws. He added 3 rebounds, 5 assists, 4 steals, a block and 5 fouls drawn for a PIR of 44. It was the highest PIR for a Buducnost player since 2004 and the club's second-best mark in EuroCup history. Ivan Koljevic had a PIR of 46 against PAOK Thessaloniki on December 7, 2004.