Lenovo Tenerife lost this Wednesday in Turkey against Tofas Bursa (90-81) and will play for their place in the Final Four of the FIBA Champions League next week at the Santiago Martín Sports Pavilion, in the third game of this quarter-final tie. On this occasion, the Tenerife people could not withstand the strength and success of their rival, a Turkish team that went from less to more and never allowed Txus Vidorreta’s team to play the game that characterizes them.
SUMMARY
90 -Tofas Bursa (21+22+25+22). Winston (19), OBrien (21), Homesley (26), Denmon (5), Wiley (4) -inicial-, Cengiz (-), Demir (-), Gecim (6), Kurtuldum (-), Prewitt ( 5) y Sakic (4).
81 – Lenovo Tenerife (26+12+25+18). Huertas (5), Guy (34), Sastre (5), Doornekamp (5), Guerra (10) -initial-, Cook (2), Diop (-), Fitipaldo (13), López (-), Vicedo ( 3), Abromaitis (-) and Shermadini (4).
Referees: Liszka (POL), Kozloskis (LET) and Salins (LET). They pointed out technique to the coach of Tofas Bursa, Orhun Ene (min6) and the coach of
Lenovo Tenerife, Txus Vidorreta (min. 35).
Incidences: Second match of the quarter-final tie played at the Tofas Nilüfer Spor Salonu in Bursa, in front of about two thousand people.
The island team started well with Kyle Guy very successful in shooting. This good start, together with the doubts of the local team, made the score favorable to the islanders at the beginning (12-21, min.7). Tofas Bursa, little by little, began to rebuild itself. He adjusted his defense on the visiting shooters, especially Guy, and closed his defense well on the interior. Furthermore, in attack he was beginning to get into tune.
In that second quarter, Lenovo Tenerife did not find its best game and allowed the rival to get closer and take the lead on the scoreboard (32-30, min.15) after a basket by OBrein, one of the best of the Turkish team . Although equality was maintained in the match, the match had changed, the game was now led by Tofas Bursa, who were more intense in defense and did not allow the rival to have shooting options. To this we must add that Kyle Guy did not find it as easy to score as he did at the beginning.
At halftime it was 43-38 and only twelve points scored in that period by Lenovo Tenerife who, despite not playing a good second quarter, were still in the game. The three fouls committed by Marcelinho Huertas at the beginning of the third quarter were very important for his team, even more so when he was on the path to closing the gap against the rival (47-45, min.23).
Added to this was the “explosion” in the game of OBrien and Homesley who led a Tofas Bursa team that came out after the break ready to achieve victory and thus force the third game. In this third quarter, the Turkish team reached a ten-point lead (68-58, min.29), a lead that Guy reduced with a triple in the last second.
There were still options for victory for the Tenerife team, who started the last quarter down by five (68-63), but in this final stretch they were not successful, neither in attack, missing easy baskets, nor in defense. In the end 90-81 and next Wednesday, in the Santiago Martín pavilion, the third and final match to find out the next qualifier for the Final Four, for which Unicaja and UCAM Murcia are already qualified.
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2024-04-10 19:02:45
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