May 19, 2013
Qualifying Round Game 2 - September 24, 2010 CET: 20:30 Local time: 20:30 - ASTROBALLE
Asvel Basket 85 - 76 KK Buducnost

Records

Ave.   Ave.
0-1 Qualifying Round 1-0
0-1 Overall 1-0

Referees

Crew Chief
CHRISTODOULOU, CHRISTOS, Greece
Referee
PATERNICO, CARMELO, Italy
Umpire
REITER, MORITZ, Germany

Team Stats

Ave.   Ave.
64.0 Points 69.0
24.0 Rebounds 25.0
4.0 O. Rebounds 6.0
20.0 D. Rebounds 19.0
12.0 Assists 9.0
11.0 Steals 7.0
1.0 Blocks 1.0
18.0 Turnovers 18.0
54.5 % 2PT 56.8 %
22.2 % 3PT 26.7 %
83.3 % FT 71.4 %
58.0 Index 65.0
Team Stats - Asvel Basket
Team Stats - KK Buducnost

Player Stats

Ave.   Ave.
18.0 / VASSALLO, ANGEL DANIEL Points 18.0 / Dragicevic
7.0 / Gelabale Rebounds 7.0 / Dragicevic
3.0 / Gelabale OR 2.0 / Scekic
4.0 / Gelabale DR 6.0 / Dragicevic
5.0 / HAMMONDS, CLIFFORD DANIEL Assists 3.0 / Kadziulis
4.0 / HAMMONDS, CLIFFORD DANIEL Steals 3.0 / Simonovic
1.0 / Gelabale Blocks 1.0 / Scekic
4.0 / LACOMBE, PAUL Turnovers 4.0 / NESOVIC, ALEKSEJ
80.0 % / Gelabale 2PT 100.0 % / OTASEVIC, NIKOLA
100.0 % / Gelabale 3PT 60.0 % / Kadziulis
100.0 % / TILLIE, KIM FT 100.0 % / Kadziulis
20.0 / Gelabale Index 22.0 / Dragicevic
Team Roster - Asvel Basket
Team Roster - KK Buducnost

THE TAKE

A pair of strong club traditions will clash for the right to continue playing the Turkish Airlines Euroleague Qualifying Rounds when Asvel Basket of France hosts KK Buducnost of Montenegro on Friday to decide their two-game series. Buducnost held serve at home in Podgorica by winning the first game 69-64, although even Asvel could take some comfort from that result, considering it was behind 19-2 soon after the tipoff. This time, Asvel should be ready for the Buducnost zone defense that was so successful early in Game 1, and so will look to guards Cliff Hamonds and Paul Lacombe to cut down on turnovers and get big men men like Bangaly Fofona, Andrija Zizic and Davon Jefferson more involved. That's especially true given that Buducnost's defensive style helped force Asvel into 2-for-9 three-point shooting in Game 1. The visitors will no doubt emply the same defensive aggressiveness to keep the score lower and make their five-point edge harder to overcome. Buducnost relied on five main scorers for almost its entire production in Game 1, with power forward Vladimir Dragicevic doing the most damage, 18 points and 7 rebounds. Meanwhile, guard Gintaras Kadziulis buried more three-point shots than the entire Asvel team, making him another key to Buducnost's hopes. On the Asvel side, rookie swingman Angel Vassallo showed his stuff with 18 points, so expect the hosts to look to him for scoring help again. If he gets help again from Mickael Gelabale, author of 11 points, 7 rebounds and 3 assists in Game 1, then Asvel will have an edge in athleticism. Asvel's other plus is the home crowd in Villeurbanne, France, who have long taken pride in being able to push their team over the top.

REFEREES: Christos Christodoulou, Carmelo Paternico, Moritz Reiter



Asvel Basket ASVEL BASKET

Buducnost KK BUDUCNOST
Roster
No. Player Country Pos. Height Born More
5 JEFFERSON, DAVON USA Forward 2.03 1986 More
6 LACOMBE, PAUL France Guard 1.95 1990
7 HAMMONDS, CLIFF USA Guard 1.91 1985 More
8 ZIZIC, ANDRIJA Croatia Center 2.06 1980 More
9 WESTERMANN, LEO France Guard 1.98 1992 More
10 FOFANA, BANGALY France Center 2.12 1989
11 VASSALLO, A.D. Puerto Rico Forward 1.98 1986 More
14 TILLIE, KIM France Forward 2.10 1988 More
15 GELABALE, MICKAEL France Forward 2.01 1983 More
17 FOIREST, LAURENT France Forward 1.97 1973
20 JACKSON, EDWIN France Guard 1.90 1989
21 ZAPHA, JEAN CLAUDE France Forward 2.02 1991
  Head Coach        
  COLLET, VINCENT France    
Roster
No. Player Country Pos. Height Born More
4 SCEKIC, MARKO BIH Forward 2.07 1981
5 MIHAILOVIC, VLADIMIR Montenegro Guard 1.93 1990
6 POPOVIC, MARKO Montenegro Forward 2.00 1985
7 POPOVIC, ALEKSA Montenegro Guard 2.01 1987
8 GORDIC, NEMANJA BIH Guard 1.92 1988
9 BAROVIC, FILIP Montenegro Forward 2.05 1990
10 OTASEVIC, NIKOLA Serbia Guard 1.84 1982
11 DRAGICEVIC, VLADIMIR Serbia Forward 2.06 1986
12 SIMONOVIC, MARKO Serbia Forward 2.01 1986
13 KADZIULIS, GINTARAS Lithuania Guard 1.92 1980
14 DUBLJEVIC, BOJAN Montenegro Forward 2.05 1991
23 SEHOVIC, SEAD Montenegro Forward 1.96 1989
33 NESOVIC, ALEKSEJ Serbia Guard 1.89 1985
35 MUGOSA, MARKO Montenegro Guard 1.84 1993
  Head Coach        
  RADONJIC, DEJAN Serbia    
Thursday, September 23, 2010
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Cliff Hammonds - Asvel Basket (photo Buducnost)A point-for-point battle for the finish ended with Asvel Basket advancing to the second of the Turkish Airlines Euroleague Qualifying Rounds after outlasting Buducnost in the first one thanks to an 85-76 overtime home victory on Friday. The nine-point difference was enough to overcome Buducnost's five-point win in the first game of their series and advance on aggregate score. Asvel will meet familiar French foe Le Mans in the second round next Tuesday and Friday. It could have easily gone the other way as Buducnost rallied from 8 points behind on the series scoreboard with 100 seconds to lay to force an overtime to decide the matter. Angel Vassallo was the decider for Asvel, pouring in 20 points to go with 5 rebounds and 3 assists. The winners also got a rare pair of double-doubles, 19 points and 11 rebounds from Davon Jefferson, 11 and 10, respectively, from Andrija Zizic. Cliff Hammonds chipped in 12 points and 4 assists, too. Buducnost got 17 points on 5-for-6 three-point shooting from Sead Sehovic, plus 13 each from Marko Scekic and Vladimir Dragicevic. A 44-32 disadvantage in rebounds and mediocre 17-for-26 free throw shooting both hurt Buducnost in a series decided in the end by 3 points.

Knowing it needed to win by 6 points or more, Asvel followed Jefferson's strong start to an early 11-3 lead after a three-point play by Hammonds. Their next 4 points boosted the hosts' edge to 15-6 before Filip Barovic and Nikola Otasevic closed the gap to Buducnost with three-pointers. Jefferson and Paul Lacombe kept Asvel ahead 21-16 after 10 minutes. Asvel used strong defense to try to run away in the second quarter, and went up by 6 points on a three-point play by Zizic at 28-22. Soon, Mickael Gelabale and Bangaly Fofana found points where there were few, letting Asvel escape on the scoreboard to 33-25 at halftime.

Vassalo, scoreless in the first half, changed that quickly in the second, with 5 points in consecutive possessions to forge the game's first double-digit lead, 38-27. The Asvel defense had Buducnost stymied as the lead climbed to 42-30, but Skekic emerged to revive the visitors with his own five-point burst. Asvel felt the scoring drought now as free throws got Buducnost within 47-41. Vassallo broke the spell with a triple for a 50-41 Asvel lead after 30 minutes. His next layup made it 54-43, but just then, Sehovic exploded for Buducnost with back-to-back three-pointers to make it 54-49 - in other words, a tie series - with 7 minutes left. Lacombe immediately steadied the hosts with a long-distance blast, then his three-point play the hard way and free throws by Hammonds made it 64-51. But Buducnost was not finished, not even when down 67-54 in the next-to-last minute. Sehovic lit the spark with another triple as he and Skekic lowered the difference to 67-61. After several free throws, the same duo - Sehovic to Skekic this time - combined on a layup at the buzzer to make it 70-65, a tie series, forcing overtime.

Asvel went back to Jefferson and Hammonds to re-take an 11-point lead, 77-66, early in OT. Sehovic would not be denied, however, and another pair of his triples had Buducnost as close as 81-72. Only free throws were shot after that, however, and Vassalo proved good enough on the foul line to finally wrest away the series for Asvel.
Friday, September 24, 2010
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Referees: CHRISTODOULOU, CHRISTOS (GRE), PATERNICO, CARMELO (ITA), REITER, MORITZ (GER)
Attendance: 5200 (Tentative)
By Quarter1234Extra 1
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KK Buducnost169162411
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KK Buducnost1625416576
Head coach: COLLET, VINCENT
Asvel Basket
# Player Min Pts 2FG
M-A
 3FG
M-A
 FT
M-A
 Rebounds As St To Bl Fouls PIR
O D T Fv Ag Cm Rv
5 JEFFERSON, DAVON 25:10 19 7/9   5/8 5 6 11 1   2   1 4 5 24
6 LACOMBE, PAUL 16:59 10 3/4 1/2 1/1   3 3 1 2 2     3 3 12
7 HAMMONDS, CLIFF 36:01 12 3/7 1/3 3/3 2 2 4 4   5 1   2 3 11
8 ZIZIC, ANDRIJA 37:02 11 5/10   1/4 2 8 10 2 1 2 1   5 3 13
9 WESTERMANN, LEO DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
10 FOFANA, BANGALY 9:54 3     3/4 1   1     1 2   3 3 4
11 VASSALLO, ANGEL DANIEL 36:57 20 2/5 3/8 7/7 1 4 5 3 1 3 1   2 7 24
14 TILLIE, KIM 13:49 2 1/4       4 4 3 1 1 1   3   4
15 GELABALE, MICKAEL 38:21 8 3/7 0/1 2/2   4 4 3   2     3 1 6
20 JACKSON, EDWIN 10:47   0/1                     1 2  
21 ZAPHA, JEAN CLAUDE DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
22 DEAL, RUDY DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Team           1 1 2     2          
Totals 225:00 85 24/47 5/14 22/29 12 32 44 17 5 20 6 1 26 27 98
51.1% 35.7% 75.9%
Min: Minutes played; Pts: Points; 2FG M-A: 2-point Field Goals (Made-Attempted); 3FG M-A: 3-point Field Goals (Made-Attempted); FT M-A: Free Throws (Made-Attempted); Rebounds: O (Offensive), D (Defensive), T (Total); As: Assists; St: Steals; To: Turnovers; Bl: Blocks (Fv: In Favor / Ag: Against); Fouls: Cm (Commited), Rv (Received); PIR: Performance Index Rating
Head coach: RADONJIC, DEJAN
KK Buducnost
# Player Min Pts 2FG
M-A
 3FG
M-A
 FT
M-A
 Rebounds As St To Bl Fouls PIR
O D T Fv Ag Cm Rv
4 SCEKIC, MARKO 32:52 13 4/5 1/3 2/5 2 3 5 4 1 5     2 3 13
5 MIHAILOVIC, VLADIMIR 14:03 2 1/4       1 1     2     3 1 -4
6 POPOVIC, MARKO DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
9 BAROVIC, FILIP 17:58 3 0/1 1/1         1 1       2   2
10 OTASEVIC, NIKOLA 16:07 9 2/3 1/1 2/2       1   2   1 3 2 5
11 DRAGICEVIC, VLADIMIR 26:45 13 4/9 0/2 5/7 2 2 4 1   2   2 5 6 6
12 SIMONOVIC, MARKO 32:21 7 1/8 1/4 2/4 1 6 7 1 1     1 5 3 1
13 KADZIULIS, GINTARAS 25:58 5 2/5 0/3 1/2 1 1 2 2 1 2     2 2 1
14 DUBLJEVIC, BOJAN 12:05 4 1/3 0/1 2/2   1 1   2 2 1 1 1 1 2
23 SEHOVIC, SEAD 17:51 17 0/2 5/6 2/2   3 3 1 1     1 2 3 19
33 NESOVIC, ALEKSEJ 29:00 3 1/3 0/2 1/2   2 2 6 6 1     2 5 14
35 MILOSEVIC, NEMANJA DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Team           6 1 7     1         6
Totals 225:00 76 16/43 9/23 17/26 12 20 32 17 13 17 1 6 27 26 65
37.2% 39.1% 65.4%
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Head Coaches

COLLET, VINCENT
Asvel Basket
"The launch of a season is always difficult and we aren't used to playing such challenging games from the start. Buducnost played really well even though we made some mistakes. They came back a few times and it led to overtime. I was afraid we would let go in overtime but we didn't, so the victory feels even better."
RADONJIC, DEJAN
KK Buducnost
"We proved tonight that we can play against tough teams like Asvel. One of the differences between the two teams is in the budget and we can feel this difference tonight. We had a great opportunity to win this game but unfortunately we weren't able to realize the performance we wanted."
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