2001-02Regular SeasonRound 14
February 13, 2002 CET: 00:00
Local time: 00:00 PIONIR
Their eyes were no longer on the Top 16 prize, but fighting for the fifth place in Group D, Adecco Asvel on Thursday showed a bit of pride in beating Partizan ICN in Belgrade by 82-88. The French team finished this Euroleague season with an 8-6 record while Partizan dropped to 6-8. That 8-6 meant a three-way tie for fourth place with Ural Great and Scavolini Pesaro, but in games between the three, Asvel had the worst record, 1-3, and therefore dropped out of the Top 16, as was apparent on Wednesday night, when Ural won. Nikola Vujicic led the winning team with 17 points, Yann Bonato added 14. Milos Vujanic and Nenad Canak scored 18 points each for Partizan, while Jovo Stanojevic finished with a double-double (12 points and 12 rebounds).

John Celestand was the perfect leader on the playing floor for 38 minutes. He was leading Asvel with brain and speed, in every play he knew what to do with the ball. In the second period Asvel forged a 5-18 run and led by 32-45. In the first half Partizan had many problems with Asvel center Vujicic, but the main reason for the Yugoslavs poor game was Asvel's defense on Partizan best scorer Vlado Scepanovic, who was kept at 13 points.

The second half began with several Asvel fast breaks by Bonato and Celestand, but the critical point for the French team came in minute 30 when Bonato was fouled out. Partizan hit an 11-0 run and at the beggining of the fourth period the hosts were down by 60-73. At that point, Stanojevic made two consecutive offensive fouls, to which he added a travelling and was fouled out. Harold Mrazek hit two threes for the Asvel final 0-9 run and the story was over at 82-88.
Wednesday, February 13, 2002
Aleksandar Ostojic, Belgrade
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Referees: WARNICK, TODD; ZIEMBLICKI, GRZEGORZ; PILIPAUSKAS, KESTUTIS
Attendance: 1000
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Partizan
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
4 SCEPANOVIC, VLADO 23:00 13 3/4 1/4 4/6           4     2 4 5
5 PETROVIC, VESELIN 34:00 10 4/6   2/2   4 4 1 1       3 3 14
6 NADJFEJI, STEVAN 4:00   0/2     2   2   1 1   1 3   -4
9 STANOJEVIC, JOVO 25:00 12 4/11   4/4 4 8 12     6     5 2 8
10 MATERIC, PREDRAG 11:00 1     1/2   3 3     2     2 1  
11 GLINTIC, ALEKSANDAR 8:00     0/1 0/2   1 1           1 1 -2
12 KRSTIC, NENAD 30:00 8 1/4   6/7 5 4 9     1 1   4 5 14
13 VUJANIC, MILOS 30:00 18 3/6 1/4 9/10 3 1 4 2 1 1   1 5 9 20
14 AVDALOVIC, VULE 10:00 2 1/1       1 1 3             6
15 CANAK, NENAD 25:00 18 5/9 2/3 2/2 1 3 4 1 2 2   1 4 3 16
Team                                
Totals 200:00 82 21/43 4/12 28/35 15 25 40 7 5 17 1 3 29 28 77
        48.8% 33.3% 80%
Head coach: VUJOSEVIC, DUSKO
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
Asvel Basket
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
5 SY, AMARA 17:00 4 2/3 0/2   1 1 2 2 1 1 1   4   2
7 VUJCIC, NIKOLA 34:00 17 7/12 0/1 3/5 2 4 6 2 2 3   1 4 8 19
8 BONATO, YANN 27:00 14 3/8 0/1 8/8 2 2 4 2 1 2     5 5 13
9 MRAZEK, HAROLD 23:00 13 1/1 3/7 2/2   1 1   1 2     3 1 7
10 PETROV, SIMON 5:00 2     2/2                 4 1 -1
11 HILL, KYLE 27:00 12 1/1 3/8 1/1 1 1 2 5 2 1     3 2 14
13 FRIGOUT, DAVID 29:00 11 5/9   1/2   6 6   1   2   2 3 16
14 CELESTAND, JOHN 38:00 15 4/7 1/3 4/5   2 2 6 2 1     3 9 24
Team                                
Totals 200:00 88 23/41 7/22 21/25 6 17 23 17 10 10 3 1 28 29 94
        56.1% 31.8% 84%
Head coach: TANJEVIC, BOGDAN
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Head Coaches

VUJOSEVIC, DUSKO
Partizan
"We lost a great number of opportunities and managed to have as many as 17 turnovers. We are a young team but this fact cannot be an alibi for losing the game without any struggle."
TANJEVIC, BOGDAN
Asvel Basket
"I am very happy because we managed to defeat Partizan, a team that surely has a great name and reputation in the European basketball world. It seems that my boys wanted this victory more than our rivals. Taking into consideration the final scores in our group, obviously the most balanced one, the best teams have qualified for the second phase."

Players

CANAK, NENAD
Partizan
"We wanted to say goodbye by winning this game. However, we started unacceptably slowly and it's hard to explain why, and at the break we were already losing by 15 points. ASVEL are a well experienced team who don't miss their chances."
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