Latvian basketball player Anžejs Pasečņiks scored 16 points on Tuesday and Dairis Bertāns voted with seven points in the Spanish Premier League (ACB) game, celebrating the victory of the Seville Real Betis team. The Seville away basketball players overtook Burgos’ San Pablo with a score of 84:76 (22:26, 21:17, 22:25, 19: 8), ending a series of six losses.
For Paschnik, this was the second most successful game after returning to the ACB – he scored 18 points in the previous match. Paschnik played 24 minutes and 11 seconds on Tuesday, with seven of the ten two-point shots and two of the four free throws in the basket, but not the only long shot. He also had eight rebounds, one foul, one intercept, one blocked throw, three remarks, four provoked fouls, the best +/- score on the team (+18) and 20 efficiency points.
Bertan played for 24 minutes and four seconds, taking two of the six “thirds” and one of the two free throws, but not the only two-point shot. The royalist also won two rebounds, gave one assists, three remarks and two provoked breaches of the rules, as well as a positive +/- score (+1) and three efficiency points. The winners with 19 points and ten assists were Sean Evans, while the opponents scored 21 points and Dani Diezs won eight rebounds.
It was already reported that Herbalife of Gran Canaria was defeated 100-183 by RAMald Malman on Monday, while Lugo’s Breogan conceded at 89:97 in Fuenlavrad’s Urbas. Artūrs Kurucs, the defender of Vitorija “Baskonia”, does not play due to an eye injury, but due to the Covid-19 outbreak, three games of the Latvian teams were postponed – Rolands Šmits (“Barcelona”), Artūrs Žagars and Krišs Helmanis (both – Badalona “Joventut”) , as well as Mārcis Šteinbergs and Jānis Bērziņš (both – Manrez’s “Baxi”).
The Barcelona club, with 11 wins in 13 games, is second on the tournament table, while nine successes in 13 matches give Joventut a third place finish, while UCAM is fourth with 15 wins in 15 battles. Next up is Baxi with eight wins in 13 games and fourth, while Baskonia’s eight successes in 15 duel give him ninth. “Urbas” is 16th with five successes in 15 games, but Real Betis with three victories in 15 matches is in the last place in the competition of 18 teams.
Last season, Roland Schmidt and Barcelona became the Spanish champions, beating Real Madrid 2-0 in the final.
