2021-22Regular SeasonRound 7
December 14, 2021 CET: 21:00
Local time: 21:00 PALAU OLIMPIC DE BADALONA

Joventut rolls past Metropolitans

Joventut Badalona bounced back in fine fashion in rolling past Boulogne Metropolitans 92 with an 86-63 victory at home in Group A. Joventut took control of the game with an 18-3 run spanning the second and third quarters in improving its record to 5-2. Pau Ribas paced four Joventut scorers in double figures with 17 points, while Vladimir Brodziansky scored 13 points, Brandon Paul had 11, Joel Parra chipped in 10 and Ante Tomic tallied 8 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists in fewer than 18 minutes. Vince Hunter was Metropolitans’ leading scorer with 19 points, Will Cummings added 17 points and Miralem Halilovic scored 10. But that was not enough as the French side dropped its second straight game to fall to 3-4.

Halilovic hit a layup to start the game for the visitors and then the Cummings show started. He scored his first 4 points while Tomic scored 6 and Joventut was up 8-6. Ribas drained 2 three-pointers to give the hosts a 16-12 lead. Cummings answered with a three-point play to give him 11 points and 4 straight points from Hunter knotted the game at 19-19. Joventut finished the quarter strong though with Brodziansky scoring twice for a 25-20 advantage after 10 minutes.

Paul drained a three-pointer to start the second quarter for Joventut and Brodziansky’s hook shot pushed the advantage to double figures for the first time at 32-22. After Andres Feliz extended the gap to 12, Hunter responded with 4 straight points at the other end. But the Joventut express continued with a Ribas three-pointer and 4 Parra points in a 13-3 finish to the first half and a 49-31 cushion at the break.

Paul started the second half with a triple and the lead grew to 54-31. Metropolitans began to finally score a bit more consistently with Keith Hornsby and Hunter combining for 10 points to pull within 60-45. But Joventut was still able to score and Brodziansky had 4 points as the lead reached 68-49 after 30 minutes.

Metropolitans tried to work hard on defense to start the fourth quarter with Halilovic slightly cutting the gap to 72-55. Joventut just kept rolling though, thanks also to three-pointers from Brodziansky, Pep Busquets and Derek Willis as the lead got to 83-57 with under 4 minutes to play. And the visitors did not get closer than 23 points the rest of the way.

Ribas uses his minutes wisely

Joventut pulling away in the second quarter gave the home side the advantage of limiting its players’ minutes. Carles Duran only had three players stay on the court longer than 20 minutes. One of those who did not play 20 minutes was Pau Ribas as the veteran collected 17 points on 7-of-9 shooting in 19:05 minutes. He also grabbed 2 rebounds and dished out 6 assists for an index rating of 21. The 17 points was a season-high for Ribas and his 6 assists ranked second for the season.

Bounce back for Cummings

Despite the loss, Metropolitans fans can be happy about Will Cummings bouncing back from his subpar showing in Round 6. The guard scored 13 points against Partizan NIS Belgrade on 4-of-16 shooting and turned the ball over 5 times for an index rating of 0. Against Joventut, Cummings scored 11 points in the first quarter and even though he only had 6 points the rest of the way, he produced in other areas. Cummings collected 8 rebounds and dished out 4 assists while also drawing 9 fouls for a PIR of 24.

No outside shooting for Metropolitans

Boulogne Metropolitans 92 got down by double figures already in the second quarter and the team just could not come back because it was lacking one of the top weapons - the three-pointers. Coach Vincent Collet’s team connected on just 2 of 16 shots from long range (12.5%). Vince Hunter made his only attempt - one round after he made his first three-pointer of the season. Keith Hornsby meanwhile had been heating up, hitting at least 2 three-pointers in the last three games, but he made just 1 of -5 from long range against Joventut.

Pau Ribas - Joventut Badalona - (photo David Grau - Joventut) EC21
Tuesday, December 14, 2021
Eurocupbasketball.com
Referees: LOTTERMOSER, ROBERT; MAJKIC, MARIO ; CELIK, HUSEYIN
Attendance: 1963 (Tentative)
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  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
2 BUSQUETS, PEP 18:07 3   1/2     1 1 1 2       4   2
3 PAUL, BRANDON 15:39 11 1/3 3/6     2 2 3   1   1 1 1 9
4 RIBAS, PAU 19:05 17 4/5 3/4   1 1 2 6   1     2 1 21
10 BRODZIANSKY, VLADIMIR 20:37 13 4/5 1/2 2/2 1 5 6 1     1   1 2 20
14 VENTURA, ALBERT 9:27   0/1 0/2     1 1 1         2 1 -2
16 VIVES, GUILLEM DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
22 FELIZ, ANDRES 18:59 4 2/5   0/1 1 5 6 4 1     1 3 1 8
30 WILLIS, DEREK 23:42 7 2/5 1/5   1 6 7 2 1 3     2 3 8
32 ZAGARS, ARTURS 21:01 5 2/3 0/3 1/2   1 1   1 1     1 3 3
35 BIRGANDER, SIMON 18:02 8 4/4     2 1 3 1   3 3   3   9
44 PARRA, JOEL 17:42 10 5/6 0/1   1 2 3 1   1     1 1 11
88 TOMIC, ANTE 17:39 8 4/5   0/2 1 7 8 4   1       2 18
Team                     1         -1
Totals 200:00 86 28/42 9/25 3/7 8 32 40 24 5 12 4 2 20 15 106
        66.7% 36% 42.9%
Head coach: DURAN, CARLES
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
Boulogne Metropolitans 92
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
0 MOULARE, ASSEMIAN DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
1 CUMMINGS, WILL 24:49 17 7/12 0/2 3/3 1 7 8 4   2   1 3 9 25
4 HORNSBY, KEITH 28:40 5 1/4 1/5   1 1 2 2 1       1 2 4
5 KONATE, LAHAOU 23:57 2 1/2 0/3     1 1 3   1       1 2
6 MICHINEAU, DAVID 22:59 4 2/7 0/2     1 1 3 1 1 1 2 3 3  
7 HALILOVIC, MIRALEM 22:11 10 4/11   2/2 2 4 6 1   2     2 1 7
10 SY, BANDJA 26:20 4 2/6 0/2   3 3 6 2 1   1 1     7
15 HO-YOU-FAT , STEEVE 22:05 2 1/2 0/1     3 3   1       4    
32 HUNTER, VINCE 28:59 19 6/11 1/1 4/6 2 4 6 3 2 4     2 4 21
94 YOMI, MAXIME DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Team           4   4               4
Totals 200:00 63 24/55 2/16 9/11 13 24 37 18 6 10 2 4 15 20 70
        43.6% 12.5% 81.8%
Head coach: COLLET, VINCENT

Head Coaches

DURAN, CARLES
Joventut Badalona
“The most important thing was a good victory over a very good team. It was a big points difference but I think they are a great team in the group. The worst thing was our defense in the first quarter. After that, we controlled the rebounds and defended better and I think my team played well on offense. This was very important for us because we lost the last game in the EuroCup in Lithuania.”
COLLET, VINCENT
Boulogne Metropolitans 92

“The second quarter we got down too much. We let them pull away. After that it was too difficult. We tried but we were also not good enough shooting. We needed to make some shots to come back but we couldn’t do it. Every time we had a shot to come back and make it -12 or -10 we couldn’t make it. It was too much for us. They were much better than us today.”

"Congratulations to Joventut. They played an excellent game. We probably helped them a little bit because we were not very tough, especially in the first half. Our defense was not good in the second quarter. They got a very good lead at halftime. It was difficult after that to come back, especially on a night like this when we could not make a shot from the outside. We had some open looks but unfortunately, we made only 2 of 16. This made it impossible to get closer in the second half."

Players

RIBAS, PAU
Joventut Badalona
“It means we’re a good team at home, but we have to improve on the road because we came off a loss. Today we played a great game from the beginning. We showed we are a good team in EuroCup and we deserved the win. In the first quarter, we struggled a little bit defending their point guards. They are so strong and aggressive and our help defense didn’t work. From the second quarter until the end we improved, we adjusted some things and they couldn’t score anymore and we did a good job.”
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