From a record-breaking home loss in his Euroleague debut, Jamont Gordon and Cibona Zagreb have made the longest of comebacks to the brink of the playoffs. That road started with a two-point victory in the regular season's last game to reach the Top 16. Now, despite a 1-4 record in Top 16 Group H, Cibona can still reach the playoffs with a road victory at Caja Laboral on Thursday if Olympiacos also stays undefeated on the road against Khimki Moscow Region. If successful, Cibona's comeback will have a lot to with Gordon, who seems to grow in stature with each passing game. The 22-year-old point guard is the Top 16's leading scorer with 21.4 points per game while ranking ninth in rebounds and 10th in assists. He and his teammates have come a long way from October 21, when they lost 40-85 to open the season against Montepaschi, but Gordon - for one - says that bad experience was a big lesson. "One thing that changed was me. I look at myself as the point guard and the team's leader on the floor, and I think I could have done something better to help my team," Gordon told Euroleague.net. "That was very embarrassing for me and I took it as a challenge not to let anything like that happen again. We just kept working hard every day from there and it's paying off now."