NBA Euro-watch: Sabonis delivers, Vucevic and Hezonja not enough

2017-12-18T09:59:13+00:00 2017-12-18T09:59:13+00:00.

Aris Barkas

18/Dec/17 09:59

Eurohoops.net

Domantas Sabonis came from the bench and added 17 points as the Pacers cruised to the win, while Vucevic and Hezonja had a great game but couldn’t prevail against Detroit.

By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net

Victor Oladipo scored 26 points, Sabonis had 17 off the bench and the Pacers beat the Brooklyn Nets 109-97. The Nets waived French guard Yakuba Outtara who was signed to a two-way contract on July 21.

The Pistons got the 114-110 victory over the Orlando Magic who have dropped five straight and 16 of 19 despite the big night of Nikola Vucevic. The Montenegrin big man had 24 points, 14 rebounds and seven assists while Croatian Mario Hezonja had 28 points for Orlando.

In Toronto the Raptors got the win over the Kings as Jonas Valanciunas and Bogdan Bogdanovic were among the standouts.

Last but certainly not least, LeBron James finished with 20 points, 15 assists and 12 rebounds to lead the Cleveland Cavaliers past the Washington Wizards 106-99 on Sunday night for their 18th victory in 19 games.

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Here are last night’s results and the euro-scorers

TORONTO RAPTORS

SACRAMENTO KINGS

108-93

Valanciunas 13 p. 16 r., Poeltl 9 p. – Bogdanovic 18 p. Koufos 6 p. 6 r. Papagiannis 4 p. 4 r.

DETROIT PISTONS

ORLANDO MAGIC

114-110

Vucevic 24 p. 14 r. 7 as. Hezonja 28 p.

BROOKLYN NETS

INDIANA PACERS

97-109

Bogdanovic 9 p. Sabonis 17 p. 8 r.

WASHINGTON WIZARDS

CLEVELAND CAVALIERS

99-106

Gortat 7p. 9 r., Satoransky 2 p. Mahinmi 5 p. – Calderon 7 p. Osman 5 p.

Standings

#
TEAM
PTS
MP
W
L
POINTS
+/-
EASTERN
1
32
25
7
3315 – 3140
175
2
CLEVELAND CAVALIERS
31
23
8
3443 – 3319
124
3
TORONTO RAPTORS
28
20
8
3106 – 2869
237
4
INDIANA PACERS
30
17
13
3245 – 3203
42
5
DETROIT PISTONS
30
17
13
3089 – 3060
29
6
29
16
13
3039 – 3007
32
7
28
15
13
2925 – 2940
-15
8
WASHINGTON WIZARDS
30
16
14
3157 – 3091
66
9
29
15
14
2902 – 2957
-55
10
28
14
14
3049 – 3060
-11
11
BROOKLYN NETS
29
11
18
3105 – 3216
-111
12
ORLANDO MAGIC
31
11
20
3288 – 3417
-129
13
29
10
19
3017 – 3079
-62
14
28
8
20
2749 – 2964
-215
15
29
6
23
2991 – 3152
-161
WESTERN
1
28
24
4
3223 – 2917
306
2
29
23
6
3388 – 3065
323
3
30
20
10
3037 – 2951
86
4
30
17
13
3229 – 3192
37
5
29
16
13
3128 – 3118
10
6
29
16
13
2977 – 2915
62
7
30
15
15
3325 – 3351
-26
8
29
14
15
2962 – 2913
49
9
30
14
16
3090 – 3005
85
10
28
11
17
2905 – 2965
-60
11
27
10
17
2871 – 2952
-81
12
31
10
21
3307 – 3540
-233
13
29
9
20
2786 – 3061
-275
14
30
9
21
2911 – 3037
-126
15
30
8
22
2990 – 3093
-103

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