Latvian basketball player Rihards Lomažs scored eight points in the ULEB Euroleague eighth round game on Friday, without saving Wilberban’s ASVEL team from the loss.
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ASVEL gave way to the St. Petersburg team “Zenit” with the result 53:66 (11:12, 10:16, 16:16, 16:22).
Lomažs spent 21 minutes and 37 seconds in the duel on the court, sending two of the three two-point shots, his only long shot and one of the three free throws to the basket.
He also scored one rebound, broke the rules twice, provoked three remarks and scored seven efficiency points.
In the team represented by Latvians, Charles Kahudī was the most productive with 14 points, but Vilas Tomas had the same number of points for the winners.
ASVEL, with one victory in six games in the tournament table, ranks 16th among 18 teams.
Meanwhile, Real Madrid won Belgrade’s “Crvena zvezda mts” with a score of 73:67 (21:26, 15:16, 23:11, 14:14). Madrid’s top scorer with 14 points was Tracy Thompkins, while the home team’s 22 points were scored by Jordan Lloyd.
In another Friday match, Bayern Munich beat Valencia at 90:79 (21:18, 16:21, 25:21, 28:19) at home. Vladimir Lucic scored 22 points for Munich, Paul Zipser scored 20 points, and Jeju Johnson scored 17 points, while Clement Prepelich scored 18 points for his opponents.
Lucic became the most valuable player of the round with 35 efficiency coefficient points.
As early as Friday, Istanbul’s “Anadolu Ephes” outperformed Athens in the Panathinaikos Opap with 80:78 (21:22, 15:18, 23:14, 21:23). Vasilije Micičs took the Istanbul team to victory, who scored 33 points, but Shelvin Meks scored 18 points.
It has already been reported that Roland Schmidt stood out with 20 points on Thursday, which is a new performance record for him, while at home he defeated Istanbul’s “Fenerbahce Beko” with 97:55.
Meanwhile, Artūrs Kurucs scored three points, but the Vitorija team “Baskonia” represented by him conceded 86:89 to the Moscow CSKA, which Jānis Strēlnieks could not help due to injury.
Elsewhere in Tel Aviv, Maccabi Playtika won with 85:57 Kaunas “Žalgiris”, which experienced its second failure in a row. Piraeus Olympiakos defeated Berlin’s Alba with 75:71.
Due to the canceled match of Covid-19, Jānis Timma and Dairis Bertāns did not take the field, whose representative “Khimki” of the Moscow region had to meet with the “AX Armani Exchange Olimpia” of Milan.
Also this season, ten countries with 18 teams are represented in the Euroleague, which is the same as in the previous season. The teams will play a two-round tournament, with the top eight entering the playoffs. The Euroleague champion will be determined in Cologne, where the final four tournament will take place.
Last season, the champion was not determined, with the tournament ending six rounds before the end of the regular championship.
