By Eurohoops Team/ info@eurohoops.net
As the squads get accustomed to various playstyles and find their own, more and more players will start showing off what they’re really made of. The fourth week of the Basketball Champions League was filled with clutch and high-scoring performances across Europe.
Nicolas De Jong logged the highest-scoring performance this week with 35 points in EB Pau-Lacq-Orthez’s comeback road win over San Pablo Burgos, their first in BCL. Suleiman Braimoh also had a huge outing with 33 points on 13-14 shooting as Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem routed Anwil Wloclawek.
Dwayne Evans and Jason Rich also had big games with 29 and 25 points respectively as did a couple more guys but the clutchest of them all was David Holston’s. Holston scored ‘only’ 17 points but he drained three contested shots from deep in the crunch time to push JDA Dijon past PAOK.
Basketball Champions League Regular Season Gameday 4 results and standings:
Group A
Polski Cukier Torun – Dinamo Sassari 95-113
Filou Oostende – Lietkabelis 80-66
BAXI Manresa – Turk Telekom 80-75
SIG Strasbourg – UNET Holon 81-86
Standings
1. Turk Telekom 7 (3-1)
2. BAXI Manresa 7 (3-1)
3. Dinamo Sassari 7 (3-1)
4. SIG Strasbourg 6 (2-2)
5. Filou Oostende 6 (2-2)
6. UNET Holon 6 (2-2)
7. Polski Cukier Torun 5 (1-3)
8. Lietkabelis 4 (0-4)
Group B
San Pablo Burgos – EB Pau-Lacq-Orthez 78-82
Teksut Bandirma – AEK 50-68
Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem – Anwil Wloclawek 112-94
Telenet Giants Antwerp – RASTA Vechta 74-81
Standings
1. Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem 8 (4-0)
2. AEK 7 (3-1)
3. RASTA Vechta 7 (3-1)
4. San Pablo Burgos 6 (2-2)
5. Anwil Wloclawek 5 (1-3)
6. Telenet Giants Antwerp 5 (1-3)
7. Teksut Bandirma 5 (1-3)
8. EB Pau-Lacq-Orthez 5 (1-3)
Group C
VEF Riga – Gaziantep 81-85
Peristeri winmasters – Nizhny Novgorod 71-74
Brose Bamberg – Mornar Bar 81-76
ERA Nymburk – Iberostar Tenerife 68-78
Standings
1. Iberostar Tenerife 8 (4-0)
2. ERA Nymburk 7 (3-1)
3. Nizhny Novgorod 7 (3-1)
4. Peristeri winmasters 6 (2-2)
5. Brose Bamberg 6 (2-2)
6. Gaziantep 5 (1-3)
7. VEF Riga 5 (1-3)
8. Mornar Bar 4 (0-4)
Group D
Falco Szombathely – Telekom Baskets Bonn 91-59
JDA Dijon – PAOK 81-76
Neptunas Klaipeda – Casademont Zaragoza 91-73
Happy Casa Brindisi – Besiktas Sompo Sigorta 84-72
Standings
1. JDA Dijon 8 (4-0)
2. Neptunas 7 (3-1)
3. Telekom Baskets Bonn 6 (2-2)
4. Falco Szombathely 6 (2-2)
5. Casademont Zaragoza 6 (2-2)
6. Happy Casa Brindisi 6 (2-2)
7. Besiktas Sompo Sigorta 5 (1-3)
8. PAOK 4 (0-4)