May 21, 2013
Regular Season Game 6 - December 21, 2010 CET: 19:45 Local time: 19:45 - PALAVERDE
Benetton Bwin 77 - 69 PAOK BC

Records

Ave.   Ave.
0-0 Final 0-0
0-0 Quarter Final 0-0
0-0 Last 16 0-0
5-0 Regular Season 3-2
5-0 Overall 3-2

Referees

Crew Chief
GARCIA GONZALEZ, JUAN CARLOS, Spain
Referee
JERSAN, ANDREJ, Slovenia
Umpire
MANTYLA, PETRI, Finland

Team Stats

Ave.   Ave.
75.4 Points 76.0
33.8 Rebounds 36.2
11.2 O. Rebounds 11.4
22.6 D. Rebounds 24.8
13.8 Assists 10.6
9.6 Steals 6.8
2.4 Blocks 1.8
15.4 Turnovers 14.4
52.5 % 2PT 53.4 %
34.7 % 3PT 33.0 %
67.0 % FT 66.9 %
73.6 Index 81.4
Team Stats - Benetton Bwin
Team Stats - PAOK BC

Player Stats

Ave.   Ave.
14.4 / Smith Points 16.4 / PAPADOPOULOS, LAZAROS
7.6 / BRUNNER, GREG Rebounds 12.6 / PAPADOPOULOS, LAZAROS
3.0 / BRUNNER, GREG OR 3.8 / PAPADOPOULOS, LAZAROS
4.6 / BRUNNER, GREG DR 8.8 / PAPADOPOULOS, LAZAROS
5.4 / Markovic Assists 2.4 / PAPADOPOULOS, LAZAROS
2.6 / Smith Steals 1.6 / GECEVSKI, TODOR
0.8 / Smith Blocks 0.6 / MARSHALL, RAWLE
2.4 / MOTIEJUNAS, DONATAS Turnovers 3.2 / PAPADOPOULOS, LAZAROS
91.7 % / WOJCIECHOWSKI, J. 2PT 66.7 % / GECEVSKI, TODOR
75.0 % / BULLERI, MASSIMO 3PT 100.0 % / APOSTOLIDIS, G.
100.0 % / TOOLSON, RYAN DAVID FT 100.0 % / GECEVSKI, TODOR
14.0 / Smith Index 24.8 / PAPADOPOULOS, LAZAROS
Team Roster - Benetton Bwin
Team Roster - PAOK BC

THE TAKE

Benetton Basket Bwin and PAOK BC play Tuesday in Treviso in a game that holds the cards for second place in Group F and the group’s second Last 16. Undefeated Benetton has already wrapped up first place in the group, while PAOK, which comes into the game with a 3-2 record, can clinch second place and a Last 16 ticket with a win. PAOK can also advance if Estudiantes (2-3) losses its game Tuesday against winless Chorale Roanne. However if PAOK loses and Estu wins, PAOK will drop to third place and see Estudiantes extend its season. Benetton in one of only two undefeated Eurocup teams thus far and ranks among the best defensive squads in the competition. The first meeting between these teams went to Treviso 62-67 led by Donatas Motiejunas’s 13 points, while imposing center Lazaros Papadopoulos scored 17 and landed 17 boards in defeat. Papadopoulos remains one of the Eurocup’s most dominating players, ranking second with a performance index rating of 24.8 per game, and he has plenty of help from fellow big men Todor Gecevski and Robert Dozier, a trio more than capable of closing down the paint. Benetton’s best scorer is Devin Smith, though Motiejunas’s all-around game has been superb and playmaker Stefan Markovic has played well at the point. But with Benetton’s veteran center Sandro Nicevic injured, Motiejunas and reserves Gino Cuccarolo and Jakub Wojciechowski must stand up to Papadopoulos. Massimo Bulleri, Alessandro Gentile and Ryan Toolson lead the Benetton backcourt, while Greg Brunner is a solid force at forward. PAOK’s Giorgios Dedas could matchup against him at that spot, and he certainly posts a three-point threat, while Justin Gray, Donald McGrath and Rawle Marshall hope to exploit their perimeter matchups and break the hosts’ defense. It shouldn’t be easy with Markovic and Smith roaming the backcourt, as Benetton is fifth in the Eurocup in steals per game, with both among the top six.

REFEREES: Juan Carlos Garcia Gonzalez, Andrej Jersan, Petri Mäntylä
Monday, December 20, 2010
Eurocupbasketball.com

Quotes Head Coaches

MARKOPOULOS, ANASTASIOS
PAOK BC
"This is the most difficult game we have played up to now. Benetton has sealed qualification and we need to definitely win an excellent team that has been playing very good basketball, has won five games, had edged us in our home court and we’ll have to rise above our potential to win, if we want to continue in the Last 16. We began with two defeats, we managed to turn things round, but what is now important is what we’ll be able to do in the last game. We are facing injury problems, we don’t know if Dozier and McGrath are going to play and that’s what been bothering us at the moment."

Players

GECEVSKI, TODOR
PAOK BC
"We are going to Italy to fight. We have to give 100% of what we’ve got. The injuries of Dozier and McGrath are a very serious problem for us, but we are going to try and cover for their absence. We are going to wait for them till the last moment. Benetton is a very good team and has proved that with her performances up to now. They have been playing better than anyone else, but they don’t need the victory as much as we do. However, we have to prove that on court and overcome our problems."
Donatas Motiejunas - Benetton Bwin (photo benettonbasket.it)The quest for a perfect record overcame a spirited try to reach the Last 16 when Benetton Bwin held off visiting PAOK 78-69 on Tuesday in the last Group F regular season game for each. Benetton outscored PAOK 5-0 in the final minute to finish the regular season 6-0, while the loss left PAOK at 3-3 and eliminated on the short end of a head-to-head tie-break with Asefa Estudiantes. Donatas Motiejunas led the winners with 16 points, while Hrvoje Peric added 14 and Devin Smith 11. Stefan Markovic led the 15-3 assists advantage for Benetton with 4. PAOK forged 5 third-quarter ties and rallied to get close repeatedly in the final quarter but could not close the deal, ending its Eurocup season. Justin Grey and Rawle Marshall paced the visitors with 18 points each, while Lazaros Papadopoulos posted a double-double of 14 and 10 rebounds.

The visitors relied on Papadopoulos and Marshall for a quick 4-7 lead but Markovic tied from long-range for Benetton. Gray broke another tie from deep at 11-14 before Michail Giannakidis gave PAOK its biggest lead yet, 13-18, with a layup. Benetton answered with consecutive baskets by Motiejunas, Gino Cuccarolo and Markovic to re-take a lead and hold it at a minimum, 21-20, after 10 minutes. Benetton's bench quickly boosted the lead with a 13-2 run to open the second quarter as Jakub Wojciechowski poured in 6 points and Alessandro Gentile 5. Todor Gecevski stopped PAOK's slide and Giannadikis added a triple, but when Peric scored his second basket of the quarter, Benetton still led by double digits, 38-27. But there were 90 seconds left, and PAOK made the most of them as Gray scored 2 triples and 8 points in a 0-10 blast into halftime that left a 38-37 scoreboard to contemplate over the break.

The defenses ruled after the break until Motiejunas went back and forth scoring against Gecevski and Papadopoulos as the scoreboard showed three different ties going up to 46-46. Gray's free throw after a basket broke the tie in PAOK's favor, but soon the bench brigade of Gentile and Wojciechowski had pushed Benetton back in front, 53-49. That didn't stop Papadopoulos from marking the fifth tie of the quarter, 53-53, but Markovic broke that one with a layup for Benetton on the 30-minute mark. Peric and Massimo Bulleri lengthened the Benetton lead with 3 points each to open the final quarter at 61-53. Back came PAOK, however, with a triple by Marshall and free throws by Gray to get within 63-59. Again Benetton sprinted away, with a layup by Motiejunas making it 70-63, and again PAOK rallied, with Marshall cutting it to 73-69 headed into the final minute. Those 60 seconds were all Benetton, however, with Smith hitting 3 of 4 free throws to seal the victory, keeping the hosts perfect in the regular season, while keeping PAOK out of the Last 16.
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Eurocupbasketball.com
Referees: GARCIA GONZALEZ, JUAN CARLOS (ESP), JERSAN, ANDREJ (SLO), MANTYLA, PETRI (FIN)
Attendance: 2050 (Tentative)
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Head coach: REPESA, JASMIN
Benetton Bwin
# 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 CAZZOLATO, NICOLO DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
6 SMITH, DEVIN 30:17 11 1/3 1/3 6/7   6 6 3 1       3 4 17
7 MARKOVIC, STEFAN 24:33 7 2/2 1/2     5 5 4 1 3     1 3 15
9 BULLERI, MASSIMO 19:37 3 0/2 1/3     2 2 1 2 1     1 3 5
11 MOTIEJUNAS, DONATAS 27:36 16 8/11 0/3 0/3 4 1 5 3 1 1     4 5 16
14 CUCCAROLO, GINO 5:33 2 1/2               1     3   -3
15 GENTILE, ALESSANDRO 25:04 10 2/4 2/5     1 1 1   1     2   4
17 PERIC, HRVOJE 21:01 14 6/7 0/3 2/4 1 3 4   2 1     2 3 14
18 WOJCIECHOWSKI, JAKUB 14:48 8 4/5     2   2 1   2     2   6
19 BRUNNER, GREG 20:45 6 3/7 0/1   2 4 6 2 2 2   1 3   5
20 TOOLSON, RYAN 10:46   0/1               1         -2
Team             5 5               5
Totals 200:00 77 27/44 5/20 8/14 9 27 36 15 9 13 0 1 21 18 82
61.4% 25% 57.1%
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: MARKOPOULOS, ANASTASIOS
PAOK BC
# 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 MARSHALL, RAWLE 36:40 18 4/10 2/5 4/5 2 5 7   3 3     1 6 20
6 ARAPIS, DIMITRIS 0:06                              
7 McGRATH, DONALD DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
8 APOSTOLIDIS, GEORGIOS 16:23 5   1/1 2/2 1 5 6           3 3 11
9 DEDAS, GEORGIOS 7:40     0/2     1 1     2     1 1 -3
10 DOZIER, ROBERTO DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
11 GRAY, JUSTIN 34:20 18 1/5 3/9 7/7   1 1   3 3     2 4 11
12 PAPADOPOULOS, LAZAROS 38:44 14 7/11   0/5 5 5 10 3 1 1 1   5 5 19
13 GIANNAKIDIS, MICHAIL 24:55 5 1/1 1/3     1 1   1 2     3    
14 KALLES, NIKOS 7:14                 1 1     1   -1
15 GECEVSKI, TODOR 33:48 9 4/9 0/1 1/1   7 7   1 1     2 2 10
16 KALAMPAKAS, DIMITRIOS 0:10                              
Team           1 1 2     2          
Totals 200:00 69 17/36 7/21 14/20 9 26 35 3 10 15 1 0 18 21 67
47.2% 33.3% 70%
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Head Coaches

REPESA, JASMIN
Benetton Bwin
"I'm very happy. We didn't want to give the match against PAOK. There is no reason to lose a match with the qualification for the Last 16 already earned. I'm proud of my team, we had to train ourselves to win all the matches. I'm very happy to catch six wins out of six. In Eurocup we are unbeaten. And now we need to think about the Italian Championship and the Last 16 with some prestigious teams like Alba Berlin, Cajasol and Panellinios."
MARKOPOULOS, ANASTASIOS
PAOK BC
"Compliments to Benetton Basket for advancing to the next stage. We tried to win the game, but without two important players, like Donald McGrath and Roberto Dozier, our center, we had difficulties to play our best basketball. In the field we had young and little players, without the experience for winning in the European championships. We were tired and in the last ten minutes we lost the game."
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