Regular Season Game 4 - December 07, 2010 CET: 20:30 Local time: 20:30 - ANTARES
Le Mans 65 - 98 Unics

Records

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0-0 Final 0-0
0-0 Quarter Final 0-0
0-0 Last 16 0-0
2-1 Regular Season 2-1
2-1 Overall 2-1

Referees

Crew Chief
ZAMOJSKI, JAKUB, Poland
Referee
PEREZ NIZ, MIGUEL ANGEL, Spain
Umpire
KOWALSKI, MARCIN, Poland

Team Stats

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73.7 Points 77.3
35.0 Rebounds 43.3
12.0 O. Rebounds 11.3
23.0 D. Rebounds 32.0
13.0 Assists 16.0
8.0 Steals 6.7
1.0 Blocks 4.3
16.3 Turnovers 16.3
47.2 % 2PT 50.0 %
33.3 % 3PT 46.2 %
72.6 % FT 71.0 %
70.0 Index 100.3

Player Stats

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14.3 / Batista Points 19.0 / Popovic
6.3 / Batista Rebounds 8.7 / Lampe
3.0 / Batista OR 1.7 / Popovic
3.7 / COVILE, RYVON DR 7.3 / Lampe
4.7 / DIOT, ANTOINE Assists 7.0 / Popovic
2.3 / DEWAR, BENJAMIN Steals 1.7 / Popovic
0.3 / DEWAR, BENJAMIN Blocks 2.0 / VRANES, SLAVKO
2.7 / COVILE, RYVON Turnovers 3.7 / Popovic
66.7 % / DIOT, ANTOINE 2PT 62.5 % / VRANES, SLAVKO
43.8 % / DEWAR, BENJAMIN 3PT 71.4 % / McCarty
87.5 % / COVILE, RYVON FT 100.0 % / Lampe
14.3 / DIOT, ANTOINE Index 23.7 / Popovic

THE TAKE

Tied with the same 2-1 record atop the Group A standings, Le Mans and Unics Kazan face off again this week in a highlighted Eurocup matchup. Le Mans hold court with the home advantage and the road win last week that should have them feeling good about their chances in this one. The Week 3 game was a hard-fought affair, with Le Mans storming back from a 13-point deficit to win it thanks to Ben Dewar’s offensive explosion in the third quarter, where the guard scored 10 straight points. Playmaker Antoine Diot and center Joao Paulo Batista led the winners with 14 apiece and Dewar totaled 13, while Marko Popovic paced Kazan with 21 and solidified his status as one of the Eurocup’s premier scorers, ranking sixth with 19 points per game at the competition’s midway point. The towering trio of Maciej Lampe, Vladimir Veremeenko and Slavko Vranes totaled only 9 points in last week’s duel in the trenches against Batista, but they did corral 17 boards and limited him to only 5. With Lampje ranking sixth amongst Eurocup rebounders at 8.67 per game, Le Mans head coach John David Jackson will have to throw more bodies around in the paint to complement Batista’s post skills: namely, center Alan Koffi, who ranks 13th in that department, and reserve big man Ryvon Covile, while also expecting high motored forward Charles Kahudi to help out on the glass. Kahudi was a big piece of the Week 3 win with clutch baskets down the stretch and Unics’s swingman Kelly McCarty will need to keep him in check defensively while also getting his points. Terrell Lyday also hopes to rebound from a sub-par shooting performance to complement Popovic’s backcourt game and outduel veteran Alex Acker on the home side. But the man to watch is Popovic, who can score and dish it out with the best of them. It will be interesting to see if Le Mans’s point guards, Diot and Marc Antoine Pellin, can capitalize on their Week 3 experience to control him.

REFEREES: Jakub Zamojski, Miguel Angel Perez Niz, Marcin Kowalski
Monday, December 06, 2010
Eurocupbasketball.com

Quotes Head Coaches

Players

Maciej Lampe - UNICSA week after having lost at home to the same team, Unics Kazan seized first place in Group A by blowing out host Le Mans 65-98 on the road in France on Tuesday. The result broke their first-place tie and left Unics alone at 3-1while Le Mans, 2-2, fell into a tie for second place with Banvit. Unics scorer met with no resistance all night, shooting 71% on two-pointers and 53% from the three-point arc. The visitors dished 21 assists to just 10 for Le Mans. Big man Maciej Lampe made 11 of 15 shots for 23 points for the winners. Terrell Lyday followed him with 19 points and 6 assists, Marko Popovic with 17 and 7, respectively, while Kelly McCarty had 15 points. Popovic made 4 of his team's 8 three-pointers as compared with just 1 in 9 attempts for Le Mans. Unics broke open a 15-15 game with a 7-27 run into the second quarter and never looked back en route to victory. Alex Acker scored 17 points for Le Mans, J.P. Batista and Thierry Rupert 13 each, and Alain Koffi 10.

Lampe and Lyday dueled with Acker and Batista in the opening minutes as the lead changed hands until 9-11, when Popovic's three-pointer gave Unics the lead. Rupert forced two more ties, the last at 15-15, before McCarty and Lyday filled a 0-9 run to finish the first quarter with the guest in charge at 15-24. The Unics attack kept up with three-pointers to open the second quarter by Lyday and McCarty as the difference reached 17-30. By the time Popovic joined them from the arc, twice, it was 22-42. Batista and his teammates played catch-up after that, but even with Charles Kahudi hitting what would be Le Mans' only three-pointer all game, Unics held a commanding 34-50 advantage at the half.

Popovic made his fourth and his team's seven triple soon after halftime, assuring the Le Mans fans that Unics still owned the nets. Rupert and Acker tried to respond, but now Unics went inside to Lampe, who had 9 points in a new 2-15 blast that left the scoreboard in tatters, 43-70. With the time left in the third quarter, McCarty, Lyday and Popovic scored again, the latter on the buzzer, as the difference soared to 49-76 after 3 quarters. The lead topped 30 points on a layup by Lampe early in the final quarter, at 49-80, and hit its high of 33 after a spate of late scoring by Ricky Minard before Igor Zamanskiy dunked to punctuate the Unics victory.
Tuesday, December 07, 2010
Eurocupbasketball.com
Referees: ZAMOJSKI, JAKUB (POL), PEREZ NIZ, MIGUEL ANGEL (ESP), KOWALSKI, MARCIN (POL)
Attendance: 4800 (Tentative)
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Unics24262622
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Unics24507698
Head coach: JACKSON, JOHN-DAVID
Le Mans
# 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 KAHUDI, CHARLES 24:25 4 0/2 1/2 1/2 2 2 4 2   1   1 3 2 3
6 DIOT, ANTOINE 27:37 2 0/4 0/3 2/2   1 1 2 3 5     3 4 -3
7 KOFFI, ALAIN 24:16 10 5/9     1 4 5 1   3     3 3 9
9 ACKER, ALEX 30:59 17 5/8 0/1 7/8 1 1 2 1 1 1     3 5 17
11 PELLIN, MARC-ANTOINE 26:45 6 2/3 0/3 2/2       4   2     2 2 4
12 RUPERT, THIERRY 27:44 13 6/9   1/2 3 2 5     1 1   2 1 13
13 BATISTA, JOAO PAULO 20:27 13 6/11   1/1 2 4 6     4     2 2 10
16 MENDY, KEVIN 3:36   0/2                   1     -3
17 CECI, THOMAS DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
18 DROUAULT, PIERRE-ETIENNE 14:11           1 1     2     1   -2
Team             1 1               1
Totals 200:00 65 24/48 1/9 14/17 9 16 25 10 4 19 1 2 19 19 49
50% 11.1% 82.4%
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: PASHUTIN, EVGENY
Unics
# 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 LYDAY, TERRELL 29:31 19 6/7 2/4 1/2   3 3 6   2     2 4 24
6 POPOVIC, MARKO 30:14 17 2/3 4/6 1/2   3 3 7 5 4     4 2 22
7 ZAMANSKIY, IGOR 6:27 2 1/1       1 1 1 1 1         4
11 PASHUTIN, ZAKHAR 13:48   0/1 0/1     3 3 2         2 1 2
12 VEREMEENKO, VLADIMIR 8:45 5 2/2   1/2 1   1 2         2 2 7
16 RIZVIC, HASAN 31:15 10 5/8     1 2 3   1 2     4 1 6
21 McCARTY, KELLY 28:39 15 6/7 1/3   1 2 3 1   1     1 4 18
22 MINARD, RICKY 11:21 7 2/4 1/1 0/1 1 1 2   1 2     1 2 6
24 ZVARYKIN, VICTOR DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
30 LAMPE, MACIEJ 36:03 23 11/15   1/1 2 4 6 2 1 2 1   2 3 28
33 VRANES, SLAVKO 3:57   0/1                 1 1 1   -2
Team           1 4 5               5
Totals 200:00 98 35/49 8/15 4/8 7 23 30 21 9 14 2 1 19 19 120
71.4% 53.3% 50%
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Head Coaches

JACKSON, JOHN-DAVID
Le Mans
"I have no illusions, I just think that instead of 30 points we should have conceded only 15-20 points. I knew that I wasn't going to play with four or five all along to win at any cost. I know very well that we have to beat Banvit next week to advance in this competition."
PASHUTIN, EVGENY
Unics
"After the game at home, Le Mans puts us in a thinking way and we made many corrections to our defense and to play a little bit more aggressive. We did well tonight."

Players

KAHUDI, CHARLES
Le Mans
"We were dominated in each quarter. Kazan is a very organized team and today they were very good in shooting. It is always difficult to stop a team that is so good."
POPOVIC, MARKO
Unics
"It's great when you win a road game. When I see in the stats, the keys are 5 more rebounds and more 10 assists. The key is defense and after that we had easy points in the fast break and that's why we won the game."
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