The victory came late, but it is important, perhaps even essential. Hadn’t the FIBA website described this meeting as already being a key match for second place in Group D, the first being promised to the French women of Montpellier? Called to launch its Eurocup campaign in the south-east of Glasgow, Elfic Friborg stammered with its basketball for a long time, until committing the trifle of 12 turnovers in the first 20 minutes (21 in total). The coach’s theory had its effect, it seems, and it was Friborg women with regained lucidity, at least in part, who returned on Wednesday from the locker rooms of the Caledonia Gladiators Arena, named after their evening opponent, to reverse the trend and end up winning 62-66. Not without being led 18-14 after 10 minutes then 38-31 at the break.
