2014-15Regular SeasonRound 5
November 12, 2014 CET: 18:00
Local time: 18:00 PIONIR
Young Marinkovic leads Partizan to first win

Partizan NIS Belgrade earned its first victory of the Eurocup season by downing CSU Asesoft Ploiesti 76-69 in Group E. Partizan is still at the bottom of the table with a 1-4 record, while Asesoft dropped to 3-2. Partizan used a 14-1 run in the middle of the fourth quarter to comeback from a 6-point deficit and take the lead for good, 68-61. Vanja Marinkovic was the main scorer for the winners with 19 points on 4-of-5 three-point shooting. Edo Muric added 14 points, Milan Macvan 12, while Nikola Milutinov amassed 10 points with 9 rebounds and Djordje Gagic 10 with 8 boards and 5 assists. Gerlad Lee and Dee brown scored 13 each for Asesoft, while Jonte Flowers and Dragan Labovic netted 10 apiece. Brown also dished 6 assists.

Marinkovic scored 5 in Partizan’s 7-0 opening run. Flowers soon tied the game at 7-7, but 7 more unanswered points from the home team, 5 of them from Muric re-established a 14-7 margin. A three-point-play completed by Macvan enlarged the difference to 21-12, but another 0-7 spurt allowed the visitors from Ploiesti to get close, 25-23, at the end of the first quarter. Brown scored to tie at 25-25 before Nikola Milutinov, from the foul line, put Partizan ahead. However, a 0-9 run by the visiting team, with triples by Marius Runkauskas and Jarvis Hayes, put them in front 32-36. Marinkovic bagged 5 points in a row before Milutinov kept Partizan ahead 43-38 at halftime.

Labovic from long distance to tie the game at 48-48 early in the third quarter. Brown hit another three for a 50-51 Asesoft advantage and Lee finished a break for a 3-point edge. Milenko Tepic scored form mid range for Partizan, but Flowers fixed a 54-58 cushion for the guests from three-point range at the end of the third quarter. Mohammed Alhaji gave the visitors a 54-60 advantage early in the last quarter, but Partizan used a 14-1 run highlighted by Muric, Macvan and Marinkovic to take a 68-61 lead with less than four minutes left in the game. Flower hit another triple to get within 70-67, but the immediate answer of Tepic from long distance ended the hopes of the visitors. Then Gagic and Luka Bogdanovic sealed the win from the foul line.
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
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Referees: BIRICIK, MURAT; ZASHCHUK, SERGEY; BISSANG, JOSEPH
Attendance: 5000 (Tentative)
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Partizan NIS Belgrade
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
4 TEPIC, MILENKO 33:35 7 1/4 1/4 2/2 2 4 6 6   2     2 5 14
7 KOUZELOGLOU, IOANNIS DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
8 MURIC, EDO 26:40 14 5/7 1/2 1/2   3 3 3 1 2   1 4 5 15
9 MARINKOVIC, VANJA 28:09 19 2/5 4/5 3/4   1 1   2 2   1 1 3 16
10 DALLO, BORIS 6:25   0/1 0/2                       -3
11 MILUTINOV, NIKOLA 24:08 10 2/4   6/8 4 5 9 1 1 2 1   5 5 16
13 MACVAN, MILAN 28:29 12 3/6 1/3 3/3 1 5 6 2   1 1 1   4 18
14 GAGIC, DJORDJE 21:56 10 3/6   4/5 3 5 8 5 1 2 1   3 5 21
21 ANDRIC, MIHAJLO 20:56 3 0/1 1/3     2 2           1 2 3
22 MILUTINOVIC, ANDREJA 4:15   0/1           1         3   -3
33 BEZBRADICA, NEMANJA DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
35 BOGDANOVIC, LUKA 5:27 1 0/2   1/2                   1 -1
Team           1 3 4               4
Totals 200:00 76 16/37 8/19 20/26 11 28 39 18 5 11 3 3 19 30 100
        43.2% 42.1% 76.9%
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
CSU Asesoft Ploiesti
  Rebounds Blocks Fouls
# Player Min Pts 2FG 3FG FT O D T As St To Fv Ag Cm Rv PIR
6 SZIJARTO, LEVENTE DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
7 PELEKANOS, MICHALIS 14:43           3 3     1     3   -1
8 LABOVIC, DRAGAN 23:50 10 1/4 2/3 2/2 1 1 2   1 2     4 2 5
10 BURLACU, CATALIN DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
11 BROWN, DEE 39:16 13 2/6 3/7 0/1 1 2 3 6 1 4     3 4 11
12 NEGOITESCU, VLAD DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
13 MOHAMMED, ALHAJI 22:08 7 3/6   1/2 1 4 5 1   1     3 3 8
15 LEE, GERALD 28:28 13 5/10   3/10 4 2 6 1   1 2 1 4 7 11
20 COOPER, CHRIS 11:32 5 2/5   1/2 5 2 7 1 1 1 1   3 1 8
21 FLOWERS, JONTE 26:56 10 2/5 2/2     3 3 1 1 1     3 1 9
22 RUNKAUSKAS, MARIUS 16:57 6 0/3 2/7         1       1 2   -4
24 HAYES, JARVIS 16:10 5 0/1 1/2 2/2   2 2   1 1   1 5 1  
Team           1 3 4               4
Totals 200:00 69 15/40 10/21 9/19 13 22 35 11 5 12 3 3 30 19 51
        37.5% 47.6% 47.4%
Head coach: ARNAUTOVIC, VLADIMIR

Head Coaches

VUJOSEVIC, DUSKO
Partizan NIS Belgrade
" Asesoft is a quality team, a quality opponent, and this was a quality game. We had good moments in out game. You can see that Macvan is not yet incorporated into the team, but his contribution and importance is clear. His three-pointer was really, really important, and it gave the team back confidence and motivation. We still have some bad minutes. We easily lost a 10-point advantage in the first half. I want to thank the fans that gave us support. Those are the most loyal fans that are here for us. We are in a quality group in the Eurocup, and there will be a big fight to make it to the Last 32, but we are ready for that fight."

Players

MACVAN, MILAN
Partizan NIS Belgrade
"This was a tough game. Asesoft is built from experienced players who have played on different European teams for many years. I think we fought our way to victory with our energy and help from the fans. Vanja Marinkovic again went „crazy, he was making important baskets and that is what probably decided the game. At the end, we deserved to win, and if we had been a little more clever, the margin could have been even bigger. "
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