Herbalife Gran Canaria vs. Frutti Extra Bursaspor

2020-21Regular SeasonRound 9

Herbalife Gran Canaria 89

Frutti Extra Bursaspor 76

December 09, 2020 CET: 21:00

Local time: 20:00 GRAN CANARIA ARENA

Dimsa, Okoye lead Gran Canaria to 7th win

Herbalife Gran Canaria got closer to clinching first place in 7DAYS EuroCup Regular Season Group D by downing Frutti Extra Bursaspor 89-76 at home on Wednesday. Gran Canaria, which had already qualified for the Top 16 before the game, improved to 7-2 and can finish first if it beats Dolomiti Energia Trento in Round 10 or if it loses by less than 10 points. Bursaspor dropped to 0-7 and has been mathematically eliminated from Top 16 contention. Stan Okoye paced the winners with 21 points, Tomas Dimsa added 18, AJ Slaughter had 12 and Aleksander Balcerowski 11 for Gran Canaria. Malik Newman paced Bursaspor with 19 points. The visitors got 15 points from Xavier Munford, 12 from Ogus Savas, 11 from Perry Jones and 10 from Maxim Mutaf.

.@GranCanariaCB keep their heads up as they win in Round 9! #RoadToGreatness pic.twitter.com/9xNK1bhVR0
— 7DAYS EuroCup (@EuroCup) December 9, 2020

Dimsa struck twice from downtown and fed Matt Costello for a dunk to get Gran Canaria going, 8-2. Ender Arslan hit a running floater and Munford bettered Costello's layup with a three-pointer for a 10-7 score. Metin Turen, Costello and Newman joined the three-point shootout for a 13-13 tie. Balcerowski's alley-oop dunk ignited a 7-0 run, which John Shurna capped with a fastbreak layup for a 20-13 Gran Canaria lead. Savas and Newman kept Bursaspor within 22-17 after 10 minutes. After Arslan scored in penetration, Jones scored three times around the basket, including a dunk off a spin, and Mutaf added 5 points in a 1-14 run that gave the guests a 23-20 lead. Okoye struck three times from beyond the arc and Dimsa added another, but Mumford and Newman kept Bursaspor ahead, 35-39. Okoye had 4 points in a 7-0 run that Dimsa capped with his fourth three-pointer to put Gran Canaria up 42-39. Slaughter also buried a three-pointer and Balcerowski added a buzzer-beating alley-oop slam for a 47-41 score at halftime.

Newman took over with a pair of layups right after the break, but Slaughter struck from beyond the arc and Dimsa added back-to-back triples, which prompted a Bursaspor timeout at 56-45. Mumford stepped up for the guests, but Slaughter answered for a 60-49 score. Okoye buried a three-pointer and Balcerowski scored twice down low to break the game open, 67-52. Savas and Mutaf rescued the guests and Jones added a three-point play to bring Bursaspor within 68-62 after 30 minutes. Okoye and Andrew Albicy downed a triple apiece early in the fourth quarter and Shurna added a jumper that caused the guests to stop the game at 76-64. Munford answered from downtown but Shurna matched that with a layup-plus-foul. Javier Beiran found his first points and a red-hot Shurna kept the hosts out of reach, 83-72, with less than 4 minutes left. Little changed after that as Gran Canaria cruised to a well-deserved win.

.@GranCanariaCB, What a way to beat the halftime buzzer #7DAYSMagicMoment pic.twitter.com/fLr9Cmj3ZC
— 7DAYS EuroCup (@EuroCup) December 9, 2020

Pivotal performer

Dimsa had a career-best PIR of 19, finishing the game with 18 points on 6-of-8 three-point shooting, 1 rebound, 5 assists and 3 steals - all in just 25 minutes on the floor.

Game-changing moment

Bursaspor led 35-39 late in the second quarter when Okoye scored 4 quick points, then Dimsa and Slaughter each hit a triple in a 12-2 run that Balcerowski capped with a spectacular alley-oop dunk right at the halftime buzzer. Gran Canaria took the lead, 47-41, for good, and Bursaspor never got really close again.

Stellar stat

Gran Canaria buried 16 of 33 three-point shots (48.5%) and Bursaspor only made 8 of 26 from downtown (30.8%). Gran Canaria dished 24 assists, twice as many as Bursaspor. This is the third time this season that Gran Canaria has made more than 15 three-pointers. It had a club-record 19 against Promitheas Patras in Round 6 and 16 in its previous game against Bursaspor in Round 4.

Did you know?

Gran Canaria continues with its great run against Turkish teams at home in EuroCup action. This is Gran Canaria's ninth win in 10 home games against Turkish squads. The only Turkish team that won a EuroCup game in Gran Canaria is Galatasaray Istanbul, 76-87, on January 24, 2018.

Next game

Both teams return to EuroCup action next week - on Wednesday, December 16. Bursaspor hosts Nanterre 92, and Gran Canaria visits Trento in a do-or-die game for first place.

Stanley Okoye - Herbalife Gran Canaria (photo Gran Canaria) - EC20

Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Eurocupbasketball.com

Referees: LOTTERMOSER, ROBERT; TRAWICKI, TOMASZ; VAN DEN BROECK, NICK

Attendance: 0

By Quarter	1	2	3	4
Herbalife Gran Canaria	22	25	21	21
Frutti Extra Bursaspor	17	24	21	14

End of Quarter	1	2	3	4
Herbalife Gran Canaria	22	47	68	89
Frutti Extra Bursaspor	17	41	62	76

Herbalife Gran Canaria

							Rebounds						Blocks		Fouls
#	Player	Min	Pts	2FG	3FG	FT	O	D	T	As	St	To	Fv	Ag	Cm	Rv	PIR
2	BALCEROWSKI, ALEKSANDER	16:08	11	5/8		1/2	3	1	4	1	1			1	2	2	12
4	FERRARI, FRANCO	6:59	3		1/3					1		1				3	4
5	OKOYE, STANLEY	33:09	21	2/5	5/12	2/2	2	4	6	2	2	1			3	2	19
6	ALBICY, ANDREW	16:07	3		1/3					2		3			3	1	-2
8	SLAUGHTER, AJ	23:53	12	3/5	2/4			2	2	7	3	3			2	1	16
9	DIMSA, TOMAS	25:10	18	0/2	6/8		1		1	5	3	3		1	1	1	19
14	SHURNA, JOHN	22:48	9	4/6	0/1	1/1	1	4	5	2		1				2	14
17	SANTANA, FABIO	DNP	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
23	BURJANADZE, BEKA	7:23	1	0/1		1/2		1	1			1			1	1	-1
24	COSTELLO, MATTHEW	18:44	7	2/2	1/1		1	5	6	3		1				1	16
33	BEIRAN, JAVIER	8:58	2	1/1	0/1			1	1		1	1					2
41	STEVIC, OLIVER	20:41	2	0/1		2/2		3	3	1	1	2			4	1	1
	Team						3	1	4								4
	Totals	200:00	89	17/31	16/33	7/9	11	22	33	24	11	17	0	2	16	15	104
				54.8%	48.5%	77.8%

Head coach: FISAC, PORFI

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

Frutti Extra Bursaspor

							Rebounds						Blocks		Fouls
#	Player	Min	Pts	2FG	3FG	FT	O	D	T	As	St	To	Fv	Ag	Cm	Rv	PIR
5	MUNFORD, XAVIER	28:46	15	5/6	1/6	2/2		1	1	3		1			2	4	14
7	JONES, PERRY	30:32	11	5/6	0/4	1/1	1	3	4	1	2	3	1		4	2	9
8	BATUK, BIRKAN	20:43			0/1					3	1	1			2
10	ARSLAN, ENDER	21:15	4	2/3	0/2			1	1	2		3			2	1
14	NEWMAN, MALIK	29:37	19	3/4	4/6	1/1		3	3		1	2	1		1	5	23
21	SAVAS, OGUZ	20:22	12	4/8		4/4				1	2	1			1	4	13
23	MUTAF, MAXIM	19:55	10	2/2	2/3		1	6	7	1	1	3			2		13
77	TUREN, METIN	28:50	5	1/2	1/4		2	4	6	1	1	3			1		5
	Team							2	2								2
	Totals	200:00	76	22/31	8/26	8/8	4	20	24	12	8	17	2	0	15	16	79
				71%	30.8%	100%

Head coach: ALIMPIJEVIC, DUSAN

Head Coaches

FISAC, PORFI

Herbalife Gran Canaria

"Today, we were clear on our offense and our approach led us to victory. We don't have a lot of time to prepare games because we played on Sunday, traveled back on Monday and only had one day to practice. In that sense, the group has practiced well during the week when we had the chance to do it, with a good attitude and willingness. Not only do you prepare a game, but also try to improve what we did wrong in the previous game. We are playing a little bit differently in both competitions. The most important thing is that the group is aware of what is ahead of us."

ALIMPIJEVIC, DUSAN

Frutti Extra Bursaspor

"First of all, I want to congratulate Gran Canaria and its coaching staff. They did, so far, a very good job. They are the first team in our group and I wish them all the luck in the next round. For us, it was probably our maximum at this moment, because we have a small number of players, with a lot of COVID-positive players. Probably it was our maximum right now. I can say that in some parts I am satisfied - of course not with this loss, but with the effort they gave because it is not easy to play against a team such as Gran Canaria with eight players. We have a really short roster in this moment. They gave a great effort on the court and for me, it is very important to show some difference between the first and second game, because Gran Canaria played much easier against us at home. Right now, because of that, I have a lot of reasons to be satisfied, but of course, we cannot be satisfied after losing the game. We have a tough schedule in front of us. We have to keep going now and see what is next."

Players

OKOYE, STANLEY

Herbalife Gran Canaria

"I think we executed very well. The offenses that we called, we did everything and got everything that we wanted. A lot of open shots, a lot of layups to the basket and I think that helped. They definitely seemed tired and only had eight players, but we are happy for this victory."

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