2016-17Regular SeasonRound 6
November 16, 2016 CET: 20:30
Local time: 20:30 FERNANDO MARTIN
Rolands Smits - Montakit Fuenlabrada - EC16 (photo Fuenlabrada)

Fuenlabrada routs ALBA Berlin

Montakit Fuenlabrada routed ALBA Berlin 105-80 on Wednesday at Fernando Martin. Both teams now have 3-2 records in Group C, but Fuenlarada now has the head-to-head tie-break advantage between them. Ivan Paunic starred with 23 points and 7 assists for the winners, Ludde Hakanson scored 19 points on 5-of-6 three-point shooting, Rolands Smits scored 15, Luka Rupnik 12 and Ian O’Leary collected 9 rebounds. Elmedin Kikanovic led the way for ALBA with 15 points, Dominique Johnson netted 14 points, Malcolm Miller collected 11 points and 8 rebounds, Engin Atsur scored 10 and Peyton Siva delivered 7 assists for ALBA. Fuenlabrada outrebounded ALBA 43-26 and made 15 of 26 three-point shots (57.7%), which were keys to the win.

Niels Giffey and Dragan Milosavljevic helped ALBA to an early 4-5 lead. Paunic struck from downtown, igniting an 11-0 run in which Hakanson hit back-to-back triples to give Fuenlabrada get a 17-7 lead. Paunic and Hakanson kept pacing Fuenlabrada and a put-back basket by David Wear kept his team way ahead, 26-17. Smits joined the three-point shootout, but Miller kept ALBA within 29-21 after 10 minutes. Fuenlabrada found a new go-to guy in Xavi Rey and also got help from Rupnik, whose three-pointer broke the game open, 40-25. Siva and Atsur tried to change things for ALBA, but Fuenlabrada kept going and finding good shots. Paunic and Rupnik allowed the hosts to boost their margin to 57-38 at halftime. Johnson had 5 points soon after the break, but Hakanson and an unstoppable Paunic kept Fuenlabrada fully in charge, 64-45. Johnson hit another three-pointer and Atsur made free throws, but ALBA only managed to trade baskets, as a three-point play by Paunic gave Fuenlabrada a 72-55 lead. Smits and Rupnik gave the hosts a 78-62 lead after 30 minutes. Three-pointers by Pako Cruz, Rupnik, Smits and Hakanson all but sealed the outcome at 92-69 early in the fourth quarter.

Wednesday, November 16, 2016
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Referees: SHEMMESH, SEFFI; OBRKNEZEVIC, UROS ; PEERANDI, RAIN
Attendance: 3771
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Montakit Fuenlabrada
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
2 POPOVIC, MARKO 11:34 2 0/1 0/1 2/2   2 2 3 1 2     4 1 1
4 O'LEARY, IAN 15:20 7 2/2 1/2 0/2 1 8 9 2   1 1   1 1 15
5 RUPNIK, LUKA 20:06 12 1/2 3/4 1/2 1 1 2 3 1 1     3 3 14
6 HAKANSON, LUDDE 19:54 19 2/5 5/6   1 2 3 1 1 1     3   16
8 LLORCA, ALEX 13:29 2 1/2     1 1 2 1   1     1 1 3
11 CRUZ, PAKO 16:17 5 1/2 1/3     1 1 1 1 1     2   2
12 WEAR, DAVID 14:59 6 2/4 0/1 2/2 1 3 4     1       1 7
13 SMITS, ROLANDS 21:08 15 2/3 3/4 2/2 1 1 2 1   1     2 2 15
14 REY, XAVI 17:16 4 2/6     1 2 3 1 1 1 1   3 4 6
15 GONZALEZ, CHEMA 11:08 2 1/1   0/2   1 1           3 2  
21 DIAGNE, MOUSSA 11:36 8 2/3   4/6 1 6 7     1     3 3 11
31 PAUNIC, IVAN 27:13 23 6/8 2/5 5/6 2 4 6 7   4   1 2 7 30
Team           1   1               1
Totals 200:00 105 22/39 15/26 16/24 11 32 43 20 5 15 2 1 27 25 121
        56.4% 57.7% 66.7%
Head coach: CUSPINERA, JOTA
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
ALBA Berlin
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
5 GIFFEY, NIELS 22:18 5 0/3 1/3 2/2 1 1 2   1       4 1  
6 MALU, JONATHAN 8:09 2 1/3     1 2 3     1   1 3   -2
7 SIVA, PEYTON 27:26 8 1/4 1/4 3/4   2 2 7 4 4   1 2 7 14
8 AKPINAR, ISMET 6:23     0/1                   2   -3
9 KIKANOVIC, ELMEDIN 23:42 15 5/12 0/1 5/6 1 1 2 1   2     2 5 10
11 VARGAS, AKEEM 11:59 3 1/3   1/1   1 1 1         2 2 3
13 MILLER, MALCOLM 18:20 11 4/5 1/1   1 7 8   2   1   3 1 19
14 ATSUR, ENGIN 20:02 10 0/1 2/5 4/4       4   2     1 4 11
15 RADOSAVLJEVIC, BOGDAN 8:09 4 1/2   2/4 1   1     1     1 3 3
21 MILOSAVLJEVIC, DRAGAN 25:58 8 4/6 0/2     1 1 1 1       3 1 5
23 JOHNSON, DOMINIQUE 27:34 14 2/4 2/5 4/4   2 2 2 1 2     2 2 12
27 CARTER, PAUL DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Team             4 4               4
Totals 200:00 80 19/43 7/22 21/25 5 21 26 16 9 12 1 2 25 26 76
        44.2% 31.8% 84%
Head coach: CAKI, AHMET

Head Coaches

CUSPINERA, JOTA
Montakit Fuenlabrada
"First of all, congrats to my players because we played a great game. We lead the game from the very beginning. We shot a high percentage, especially thanks to Hakanson, Rupnik, Paunic and Smits. Everyone did a good job in defense against a very good team, and we dominated the rebounds. We enjoyed a lot, the team and the fans."
CAKI, AHMET
ALBA Berlin
"Today we started the second [half] of the EuroCup. Actually, we came here with three wins from four games. It was a good situation for us and we tried to improve that, but Fuenlabrada started well in the game. Actually, we like to start tough and control the game with our toughness, but it worked out the opposite way. They started really tough and we gave them such easy points and they took control of the game. I think the difference was their back-up players, especially these two point guards, Hakanson and Rupnik, did a good job and the rest of the team followed them. In the third quarter we played better, we came within 11 points difference, in that time we made 1 turnover and they got a layup. As a team actually I was expecting that we would react better, because we didn’t present our game well, but this is just the first game of the second round. We need to work hard and get ready for our next game. “