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Regular Season Game 10 - January 15, 2009 - PALA DEL MAURO
GAME PREVIEW
Air Avellino
vs.
Cibona
Local time: 8:45 PM TV CET: 8:45 PM
Head Coaches
MARKOVSKI, ZARE
Air Avellino head coach
"I believe that a good team like Cibona will be motivated to win to have a good ranking at the end of this round. We must show that we are a good team under any circumstances we are a good team. It is time to play hard and win, because We want to finish our Euroleague season with a good result before we focus on our domestic competition. I hope that my players will step on court with high concentration."
PERASOVIC, VELIMIR
Cibona Zagreb head coach
"We still have some problems with injuries and it is almost certain that we are going to play without Vukusic in Avellino. The fact is that almost all of the Euroleague teams are stronger at home, so it will be really difficult to win although the game does not have great importance. Our ambition is to win because we want to start getting used to winning in away games, and try to lift our form for the second part of the season. I will not rest any players, because sometimes it has quite an opposite effect."
Players
PRKACIN, NIKOLA
Cibona Zagreb forward
"We all know that this game won't move us up or down in the final regular season standings, but it's always nice to win on the road. That is our motive, and that is why we will try to do our best."
Air Avellino will finish its maiden Euroleague season on Thursday when it hosts Cibona in their Group A regular season finale. Avellino has no chance to reach the Top 16. Cibona has clinched fourth place in the group and will advance to the next stage. Head coach Zare Markovski’s Avellino will try to end the season on a high note after dropping five in a row, a streak that started with an 82-79 loss when it visited Cibona in November. Davor Kus paced Cibona in that game, while Chris Warren led Avellino with 20 against his former team. Despite Avellino’s losing run, the team has played well during the stretch – three of those losses came by 4 points or less on the road! Last week Avellino came up short despite scoring a season-high 88 points behind 19 from Travis Best. Meanwhile Cibona has also slipped lately, losing its last two games and head coach Velimir Perasovic’s men will want to pick up an important win before heading into the Top 16. Cibona is also trying to work two new players into the rotation – veteran center Bruno Sundov and swingman Alan Anderson, who debuted with 19 points in a 1-point loss at against Unicaja last week. Cibona’s strength is in the backcourt, where Earl Calloway, who has scored in double figures in eight straight games, Kus and Anderson will face Avellino’s Best, Warren and Drake Diener. There could be an interesting matchup at small forward, where the hosts’ Tamar Slay will have a height advantage over Anderson. In the paint, Sundov will team with Jared Homan, Niksa Prkacin and Luksa Andric against Avellino’s Eric Williams, Marko Tusek and Nikola Radulovic. In a game that is essentially for protocol only, Avellino may give reserves Daniele Cinciarini and Andrea Crosariol extended minutes, and Cibona could do the same with Robert Troha or Sundov. Either way, when the fourth quarter rolls around, both teams will give 100% to push for a win to end their recent slides.

GAME NOTES

Air Avellino
  • Forward Tamar Slay has also recorded at least 1 steal in every game this season.
  • Swingman Chris Warren faces his former team this week. Warren spent the last three seasons with Cibona and was the team’s top scorer in the Euroleague in each of the past two seasons. Overall he played 34 Euroleague games with Cibona and helped the club win two Croatian championships.
  • Big man Nikola Radulovic was born in Zagreb and spent half a season playing for Cibona early in his career.
Cibona
  • Guard Earl Calloway has scored in double figures in eight straight games, averaging 15 points per game over that span.
  • Center Bruno Sundov made his first Euroleague appearance last week since the 2004 Euroleague title game, when he scored 4 points for Maccabi Tel Aviv as it was crowned champion.
  • Big man Jared Homan blocked a total of 8 shots in the first three games of the season, but has not blocked any in the past six games.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Euroleague.net
Stats Comparisions: Teams and players
Team Aver.     Team Leaders Head-to-Head Team Leaders     Team Aver.
75.0 Pts. WARREN, CHRIS 16.7 Pts. 13.7 CALLOWAY, EARL Pts. 76.1
48.10 % 2FG% WILLIAMS, ERIC 67.39 % 2FG% 88.89 % TROHA, ROBERT 2FG% 51.86 %
33.94 % 3FG% DIENER, DRAKE 48.28 % 3FG% 43.59 % MARSHALL, RAWLE 3FG% 35.29 %
32.2 Rebounds WILLIAMS, ERIC 4.9 Rebounds 4.3 VUKUSIC, VEDRAN Rebounds 29.4
10.9 Assist. BEST, TRAVIS 3.2 Assist. 2.6 CALLOWAY, EARL Assist. 9.7
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