The Dreamland Gran Canaria has lost Tuesday by 74-66 during its visit to Bahçsehir Koleji in the first semifinal match in the Eurocup, played around the best of three meetings and will live its next chapter on March 28 in Grancanarias lands.
For this first ‘Semis’ event in Istanbul, on the Singan Erdem Spor Salonu court, the Spanish team began well and had arreones that put it 10-15 above. However, it fit a partial 13-0 and everything that was first quarter was already at the time.
Although Caleb Homesley put a beautiful suspension shot to set the inaugural room, the Gran Canaria fought more and more on the scoreboard. Mike Tobey was the only one who complicated the rival team in capturing the rebound, key for the Bahçesehir to score a lot in second opportunities and dominate the rest by 49-37.
In the resumption, a triple corner of Tyler Cavanaugh predicted worse news for the pupils of Jaka Lakovic. While the locals defended almost every ‘pick and roll’ of the ‘Granca’, they attacked fluently. After seeing 56-38 below, the Grancanario team at least took a breath with two triples in a row, the work of Joe Thomson and Nico Brussino.
Although the Turks maintained distances, a triple of Mehdy Ngouama on the horn of the third period (62-52) initiated a positive streak of the visitors, until approaching 64-59 at the dawn of the fourth act. The pivot Marko Simonovic then went out to the rescue of the Bahçsehir, like ‘Palomero’ to crush the hoop after two yellow losses.
At a minute and a half to finish the game, and the departure of a dead time asked by Lakovic, Brussino failed a triple and there the hopes of removal for the ‘Granca’ died. In this way, the pupils of Dejan Radonjic managed with skill the remaining time and came victorious, having supported Axel Bouteille for the annotation.