Guided by her excellent defense, with a multitude of attack and with MVP Dimitris Katsivelis, AEK passed with the impressive 69-53 from the Riga headquarters at the premiere of Basketball Champions League.
AEK thus entered with the… right to the 6th BCL group, redeeming its aggressive pluralism (scored by Skordilis). Dimitris Katsivelis’ top scorer with 13 points, while Zaire Porter fought from the Latvians with 16.
The defensive … appetites of the “yellow-blacks” were shown with the … good evening, with the Greek team limiting the home side to the 12 points in the first quarter and securing a 14-point safety difference (12-26 at 10΄). The plan did not change until the half time and with the Union holding the Latvians again at 12 points, the two teams took the road to the locker room with the whole of Dragan Sakota at +17 (24-41 at 20΄).
The carbon of the first half and the second, with AEK shows a duration in its defensive plan and not feeling at any point by Riga, celebrating a valuable “double” at the premiere.
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The quarters: 12-26, 24-41, 40-57, 53-69
RIGA (Gulbis): Porter 16 (7/9 two -pointers, 2/2 shots, 5 rebounds, 3 assists), boumaisters, Angevs 5 (1), Aleksadrovs, Bertans 4 (1/5 three -pointers, 1/2 shots, 3 assists), Vanags 2, Novitski 10 (4/7) Kilps 2 (0/10 shoots), Leimanis 8 (2/8 shots)
AEK (Sakota): Gray 6 (3/6 two -pointers, 4 rebounds, 8 assists, 3 steals), Skordilis, Katsivelis 13 (3/5 two -pointers, 2/4 three -pointers, 1/1 shot, 6 rebound 3, Petzarski 2, Kuzminskas 9 (2), Bartley 7 (1/2 two -pointers, 1/6 three -pointers, 2/3 shots, 4 rebounds), ARMS 5 (1), Silva 7 (2/2 two -pointers, 3/4 shots), Charalampopoulos 6 (1/1, 0/4)
Riga’s group statistics: 15/33 two -pointers, 4/22 three -pointers, 11/20 shots, 33 rebounds (24 defenses – 9 offensive), 8 assists, 6 steals, 4 blocks, 12 errors, 23 fouls
AEK’s group statistics: 15/27 two -pointers, 6/27 three -pointers, 21/25 shots, 39 rebounds (29 defenses – 10 offensive), 18 assists, 9 steals, 2 blocks, 12 errors, 22 fouls