The Joventut de Badalona debuted in the Eurocup with a resounding victory (56-86) on the track of the Dolomiti Energia Trento Italian in a match that only had a certain equality in the first half.
Before Tomic was the player who unbalanced the match with 13 points, 8 rebounds and 3 assists. They equaled him on points Joel parra and Vladimir Brodzianski in a performance in which the defense of the Penya it was excellent, leaving the Italians in 9 points in the third quarter to live a placid last period.
The Penya dominated on the scoreboard from the first minutes of the match with Tomic dominating on both hoops and Pau Ribas successful from the three-point line. In defence, Joel parra stopped the best rival scorer, Cameron reynolds, who finished with 8 points, and the rest of the team left their rival below 30% in the field goals.
The little success of the green-blacks in the triple meant that their dominance in the rebound was not reflected on the scoreboard, reaching a maximum advantage of six points (11-17, min. 10) in the first period.
In the second quarter, the Penya kept the defensive trend and was able to run, to get ten points up (24-34, min. 18) with a basket of Vine. The green and black had some problems in defense when Tomic he went to the bench for fouls and the Italians reduced the difference to five (24-29, min. 18).
Brodziansky He refined his aim in the final minutes and with a basket on the horn he put the maximum advantage (28-40) at half-time.
The match was resolved in a third quarter in which Joventut only conceded nine points and finished with a 27-point advantage after a triple by Andrés Feliz (35-62).
The green-blacks put pressure on the Italians in defense from the start and a three-pointer from Pau Ribas and two baskets of two of Birgander and Vine they threw the difference to 19 points (28-47, min. 23) that made Trento lower his arms, who failed to raise his level of accuracy in the shot in the second half.
The continuous robberies of the ball in the first pass line, especially from Andrew Happy, they shot the difference to 27 points at the end of the quarter (35-62), which closed the Dominican base with a triple.
The last quarter was a procedure with Carles duran giving minutes to the less usual, who maintained the tone of the team extending the advantage to a maximum of 33 points (49-82) just over two minutes from the conclusion.
Data sheet
Dolomiti Trento-Joventut, 56-86
56. Dolomiti Energia Trento (14 + 14 + 9 + 19): Flaccadori (6), Saunders (8), Caroline (12), Reynolds (8), Williams (3) -starting team-, Bradford (9), Forray (2), Mezzanotte (5), Ladurner (1) and Conti (2).
86. Joventut Badalona (17 + 23 + 22 + 24): Vives (2), Paul (2), Parra (13), Willis (6), Tomic (13) -starting team-, Busquets (5), Ribas ( 9), Brodziansky (13), Feliz (9), Birgander (12), Ventura (2) and Maronka (-).
Referees: Javor (Slovenia), Udyanskyy (United Kingdom) and Boubert (France). Without eliminated.
Incidents: match corresponding to the first day of group A of the European Championship played at the BLM Group Arena in Trento (Italy) before 925 spectators.