The home side kept its feet on the gas from start to finish in an emphatic win
Paris runs riot to blow away Hamburg, 120-91



Paris became the first team to cement a spot in the EuroCup Playoffs with a 120-91 drubbing of visiting Veolia Towers Hamburg. The hosts upped their Group A-leading record to 11-1 while Hamburg fell 2-10. TJ Shorts paced Paris with a game-high 26 points, shooting 11 of 13 from the floor and 4 of 4 from the foul line. Mehdy Ngouama netted 18 points for the home side, Tyson Ward scored 15 and Nadir Hifi chipped in with 14. Collin Malcolm added 12 and Bandja Sy scored 11, underlining a seamless team effort. At the other end, Aleksander Dziewa led Hamburg with 17 points, while William Christmas racked up 16. Vicent King had 15, Seth Hinrichs and Mark Hughes posted 13 each, while Aljam Durham chipped in with 11.
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Shorts put Paris way ahead
Hamburg held its own reasonably well in the first half, having been able to stay in touch with Paris thanks to sound perimeter shooting. However, the home team had too much firepower, having led 59-48 at halftime on the back of effervescent percentages, as Paris netted 6 of 12 shots from three-point range and 16 of 21 from inside the arc. Many of those were two-pointers were piercing drives to the basket by Shorts, who bedazzled his defenders time and again with his explosive combination of speed, power and stunning ball control.
The points just kept falling for Paris
Hamburg was barely hanging on midway through the third quarter as Paris led 69-55, but any hopes the German team had of replicating the previous round’s upset when it earned an 81-83 win at London Lions, were vanquished in the next few minutes. Paris found an extra gear and pulled away to 86-59 in the closing stages of the third and after Hamburg enjoyed a brief 7-2 streak to slash the deficit, the hosts raced away again with some spectacular dunks from Nguama and Sy adding gloss to the victory. Paris's 120 points in regulation is the second-best mark in competition history, surpassed only by Estudiantes which scored 121 in the early stages of the competition’s inaugural season.