Valencia Basket vs. Gran Canaria - ShowGame - ADIDAS Next Generation Tournament

2021-22Regular SeasonRound 3

November 03, 2021 CET: 20:30

Local time: 20:30 LA FONTETA

Gran Canaria edges Valencia on the road

Gran Canaria registered its second road victory in Group B by downing Valencia Basket 89-90 at La Fonteta on Wednesday. Gran Canaria improved to 2-1 in the standings while Valencia dropped to 1-2. Nicolas Brussino led the winners with 17 points, Dylan Ennis added 16, A.J. Slaughter had 13 and John Shurna 12 for Gran Canaria. Jasiel Rivero paced Valencia with 16 points, Martin Hermannsson added 15, Sam Van Rossom 14, Xabi Lopez-Arostegui 12 and Klemen Prepelic 11. Brussino had 10 quick points, allowing Gran Canaria to get an early double-digit lead, 13-23. Lopez-Arostegui and Van Rossom brought Valencia within 23-25 after 10 minutes. Shurna had 8 points in an 0-11 run that gave Gran Canaria a 41-51 advantage at halftime. Artem Pustovyi and Dylan Ennis helped Gran Canaria to a 16-point margin late in the third quarter. Hermannsson, Rivero and Lopez-Arostegui brought Valencia within 76-79 with 4 minutes left. Slaughter and Ennis stepped up in crunch time, allowing Gran Canaria to seal a prestigious road win.

Hermannsson got Valencia going with a reverse layup and Jaime Pradilla added a couple of baskets for a 7-4 lead. Brussino followed a driving basket with a triple, but Prepelic answered from downtown and Pradilla scored again. Ennis and a red-hot Brussino kept the visitors ahead, 12-15. Chris Kramer hit a floater and then Brussino and Slaughter each hit a three-pointer to make it a double-digit game, 13-23. Lopez-Arostegui and Van Rossom each struck from beyond the arc and got help from Rivero to bring Valencia within 23-25 after 10 minutes.

Josep Puerto joined the three-point shootout early in the second quarter and Rivero scored down low for a 28-25 Valencia lead. Oliver Stevic and Kramer rescued Gran Canaria with back-to-back layups and Khalifa Diop dunked in a 0-10 run that Brussino capped with a jumper. Khalifa Diop added a jump hook, but Hermannsson followed a jumper with a bomb from beyond the arc in an 8-0 run that tied it at 37-37. Shurna stepped up with a corner triple and a layup and followed Slaughter's three-pointer with a basket-plus-foul for a 37-48 Gran Canaria lead after a 0-11 run. Brussino beat the halftime buzzer with a three-pointer that kept Gran Canaria comfortably ahead, 41-51, at the break.

Pustovyi took over with a tip-in right after the break, but Dubljevic and Van Rossom brought Valencia a bit closer, 46-56. Pustovyi silenced the crowd with a wild dunk-and-foul and Ennis matched Dubljevic's jump hook with a jumper for a 48-58 Gran Canaria lead. Miquel Salvo dunked and Ennis buried a three-pointer that broke the game open, 50-64. Van Rossom and a red-hot Ennis traded three-pointers and Andrew Albicy soon made it a 16-point difference. Prepelic scored down low and followed Pradilla's dunk with a bomb from downtown. Hermannsson and Slaughter exchanged triples to fix the score at 65-75 after 30 minutes.

Hermannsson buried a jumper early in the fourth quarter and Lopez-Arostegui added a fastbreak layup that caused Gran Canaria to call timeout at 69-75. Rivero ignited the crowd with consecutive dunks but Slaughter answered with a driving layup and Ennis beat the shot clock buzzer with a jumper. After Lopez-Arostegui hit a three-pointer, Slaughter buried a jumper and Ennis scored again to give Gran Canaria plenty of fresh air at 76-83. Van Rossom then struck from beyond the arc, but Albicy and Rivero exchanged layups and Stevic banked in a jump hook to make it 81-87 in the next-to-last minute. Albicy buried a critical triple only to see Van Rossom and Prepelic do the same, making it 89-90 with 1.8 seconds left. Gran Canaria ran the clock out after a timeout.

.@GranCanariaCB play away from home to take the victory in Round 3!#RoadToGreatness pic.twitter.com/06V0W6PRtX
— 7DAYS EuroCup (@EuroCup) November 3, 2021

Albicy shares and steps up

Gran Canaria registered an 89-90 road victory against Valencia Basket and playmaker Andrew Albicy was right in the middle of it, stepping up when his team needed him and sharing the ball all game long. Albicy finished the game with 10 assists - just 2 away from his EuroCup personal best, and only committed 2 turnovers. He also made the difference in the final minutes, scoring 5 of his 9 points down the stretch. He scored in penetration with over 2 minutes left and buried a three-pointer that allowed Gran Canaria to seal the win, 83-90, with 48.6 seconds remaining.

Oddly enough, a first showdown

Valencia Basket ranks second in games played in EuroCup history with 209 and Gran Canaria is third with 189. They only trail UNICS Kazan (231). Despite combining for 398 EuroCup showdowns and facing each other dozens of times in Spanish League action, this was the first matchup between the teams in the EuroCup. Gran Canaria became the third Spanish team to win a EuroCup game in La Fonteta. Bilbao Basket was the first one to do it, 60-61, on January 29, 2013. Unicaja Malaga also beat Valencia at La Fonteta, 58-63, in Game 3 of the EuroCup Finals on April 5, 2017, to lift the trophy.

Telling numbers: Effectiveness gives Gran Canaria the win

Gran Canaria managed to beat Valencia Basket 89-90 on the road in Round 3 of the 7DAYS EuroCup Regular Season. It managed to do it by shooting the ball well and taking better care of the ball. Gran Canaria made 25 of 38 two-pointers (65.8%) and 10 of 24 from beyond the arc (41.7%). Valencia also shot the ball well (66.7% 2FG, 41.4% 3FG) but Gran Canaria matched the hosts' efforts. The guests finished the game with 17 assists, 13 turnovers and 9 steals, doing better than Valencia in general terms. The hosts had 19 assists, but 16 turnovers and just 5 steals.

Nicolas Brussino - Gran Canaria (photo Miguel Angel Polo - Valencia) - EC21

Wednesday, November 3, 2021

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Referees: JAVOR, DAMIR; KOWALSKI, MARCIN; BOUBERT, MAXIME

Attendance: 3312 (Tentative)

By Quarter	1	2	3	4
Valencia Basket	23	18	24	24
Gran Canaria	25	26	24	15

End of Quarter	1	2	3	4
Valencia Basket	23	41	65	89
Gran Canaria	25	51	75	90

Valencia Basket

							Rebounds						Blocks		Fouls
#	Player	Min	Pts	2FG	3FG	FT	O	D	T	As	St	To	Fv	Ag	Cm	Rv	PIR
2	PUERTO, JOSEP	20:24	5	1/2	1/3			5	5		1		1	1	3	2	7
3	PREPELIC, KLEMEN	27:29	11	2/5	2/7	1/1	1	1	2	5		3		1	4	3	5
4	PRADILLA, JAIME	13:13	9	3/3	1/1		1	2	3			1			1		10
6	LOPEZ-AROSTEGUI, XABI	29:17	12	1/1	2/4	4/5		5	5	2	1	1				3	19
7	LABEYRIE, LOUIS	24:24	2	1/2	0/2		2	4	6	1						2	8
8	FERRANDO, GUILLEM	1:06			0/1					1
9	VAN ROSSOM, SAM	15:02	14	1/3	4/5		1		1	5		1			4	2	14
12	BRESSAN, GONZALO	DNP	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
14	DUBLJEVIC, BOJAN	15:38	5	1/2	0/2	3/4	2	1	3	2		5			2	3	2
16	JIMENEZ, MILLAN	2:40
24	HERMANNSSON, MARTIN	23:52	15	3/4	2/4	3/3		1	1	3	3	3			5	3	14
41	RIVERO, JASIEL	26:55	16	7/8		2/4	2	1	3			2	2		3	4	17
	Team						2		2								2
	Totals	200:00	89	20/30	12/29	13/17	11	20	31	19	5	16	3	2	22	22	98
				66.7%	41.4%	76.5%

Head coach: PENARROYA, JOAN

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

Gran Canaria

							Rebounds						Blocks		Fouls
#	Player	Min	Pts	2FG	3FG	FT	O	D	T	As	St	To	Fv	Ag	Cm	Rv	PIR
3	KRAMER, CHRIS	11:30	7	2/2	0/1	3/4		1	1		1					2	9
5	DIOP, ILIMANE	3:54		0/1							1				2	1	-1
6	ALBICY, ANDREW	30:18	9	2/4	1/1	2/2				10	2	2		2	2	5	18
7	SALVO, MIQUEL	8:52	3	1/2	0/1	1/2	1		1	1		1			3	2
8	SLAUGHTER, AJ	19:53	13	2/4	3/7	0/1		1	1	1	1	1			2	2	8
9	BRUSSINO, NICOLAS	19:23	17	4/4	3/7					2	1	1			4		11
10	LOPEZ, JAVI	0:42
13	PUSTOVYI, ARTEM	24:32	3	1/1		1/1	1	2	3			3	2		3	2	4
14	SHURNA, JOHN	26:43	12	4/6	1/1	1/2	1	3	4		1	1			2	2	13
18	DIOP, KHALIFA	11:13	4	2/3			1	1	2			1			2	1	3
31	ENNIS, DYLAN	29:32	16	5/7	2/6		1	4	5	3	2	3			1	1	17
41	STEVIC, OLIVER	13:28	6	2/4		2/3	1	3	4					1	2	4	8
	Team						2	2	4								4
	Totals	200:00	90	25/38	10/24	10/15	8	17	25	17	9	13	2	3	23	22	94
				65.8%	41.7%	66.7%

Head coach: FISAC, PORFI

Head Coaches

PENARROYA, JOAN

Valencia Basket

"The game had two very different parts. In the first 30 minutes, especially in the first half, we didn't have the energy that the game required. That translated into situations that cannot happen to us, but happened today, like someone dribbling on a fast break and finishing with a layup, which, I think, happened to us three times. In other situations, we had the ball almost under control, but they turn into 2 three-pointers, a three-point play and a layup when the ball looked ours but we lost it. We had 12 turnovers in the first half. It means we didn't play with the intensity required, with the right energy, and this is what I told my team. I didn't manage to make my team start the game the way we should. After that, the team was able to bounce back in the final 10 minutes, and that means we could have played the opening 30 minutes the same way. And we didn't, which is something we have to look at and improve right away."

FISAC, PORFI

Gran Canaria

"They also had options to win the game. However, we were solid on our pick-and-roll defense and in the last quarter. They made a lot of threes but we had a great rhythm at this moment, making better decisions. In those moments, we needed to be calm and this is why we decided to use a small lineup even when Nicolas Brussino was doing a great job at both ends. We knew it was going to be a close game and were aware of their potential and we wanted to control the tempo. We always played with the same rhythm even when, at times, we could hit more shots or less shots. It is very difficult to score 90 points against this team, so we took good decisions and shot the ball well, which was very positive. I am happy that my team was so brave."

Players

ENNIS, DYLAN

Gran Canaria

"It is big for us. Being on the road, it is us against the team, the fans, but we just tried to stay together. This is a great team. Obviously, they had their ups and downs, but we keep the same mentality all the time. We know that every game is so important, especially on the road. Coach gives us so much confidence. We have great guys and we were able to share the ball. I think we are so dangerous because we have so many guys who can make those shots. When you shoot them, it is less pressure because you have a guy beside you who can make the same shot."

ALBICY, ANDREW

Gran Canaria

"We want to be in a good position for the next round. We have a lot of games to finish, but we are in a good way. We were a little bit disappointed when we lost the first game, so we wanted to come back and right now, we are in a good vibe, I would say. I hope we can keep playing like that. Valencia is very good. We know they will be on top of the EuroCup, so it is never easy to win here, especially, so we knew the game was going to be very difficult. But we kept playing good, kept sharing the ball, made some big shots and stayed together, and that was most important for me."

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