Asco Slask Wroclaw beat Asvel Basket 78-65 in a battle of first place teams in Group G on Tuesday night. Asco Slask Wroclaw is now tied for first place with a 3-1 record, joining a three-way tie BC Kalev/Cramo and Gran Canaria Grupo Dunas, that won their respective games against Ludwigsburg and Panionios On Telecoms. Meanwhile, Asvel fell to 2-2 and is fourth in the Group G standings. Rashid Atkins led the way for Slask with 25 points, 6 rebounds and 6 assists, Torrell Martin added 13 and Dominik Tomczyk 12 on 4-for-4 two-pointers. Chevon Troutman posted 19 on 8-for-11 two-pointers for Asvel, Lawayne Wilson posted a double-double of 18 points and 10 rebounds while Uchenna Nsomwu added 10 points and also 10 rebounds for another double-double. Slask opened the game with a 12-0 run and boosted its margin to 22-7 after 6 minutes. Asvel trailed all the way from that moment but managed to get within 58-56. Martin stepped up right when his team needed him to make Slask add its third win in Group G.

Atkins scored the first 5 points for Slask to open a 12-0 run early in the game, but after Wilson scored three minutes in for Asvel, the hosts remained in charge and held a 22-7 lead after six minutes with Atkins already with 13 points. Wilson seemed to be the only player focused for Asvel and scored 8 consecutive points to keep his side alive at 29-15. Troutman tried to push Asvel from downtown, but the answer was one more time Atkins, who put Slask ahead 38-21. Troutman helped get Asvel within 42-31 by halftime. Aymeric Jeanneau put Asvel back on track 48-42 early in the third quarter and then Laurent Foirest reduced the deficit to 3 from the foul line before Radoslav Hyzy extended again the difference to 58-50. Wilson opened the final quarter by getting Asvel closer, 58-56, but from the midway point, Slask kept on running fueled by Martin to take again a double-figure cushion at 74-64 with three minutes left in the game. Gai Deng fixed the final 78-65 for a deserved win of Wroclaw.