“Prometey” fought a strong-willed victory over “Umana Reyer Venice” with the score 71:75.
DJ Stephens finished the game with a double-double of 13 points and 10 rebounds. The guests cared about the ball, having made 16 assists and 12 losses. “Reyer” had 13 losses and just 8 assists: that is the lowest result of the club.
In this game “Prometey” made 10 steals. DJ Kennedy made half of them, having scored, besides that, 15 points, having made 5 rebounds and 5 assists. He is the 23th one in the EuroCup history, who had a line 15-5-5-5 and the first one, who did it after Gary Browne from “Trento” scored 27 points and made 8 rebounds, 10 assists and 5 steals against “Nanter” on November 18,2020. “Reyer” finished the game with just 4 steals.
DJ Kennedy is the most productive “Prometey” player in the last four tours of the 7DAYS EuroCup.
During first eight tours he was the only one to gain 11.0 points, 5.5 rebounds and 4.0 assists. And this is in addition to the fact that he is one of the EuroCup leaders in terms of steals - 2.6 per game.
Kennedy became particularly productive after the 5th tour.
Befor the national teams’ window, Kennedy averaged 7.3 points, being successful in just 44.0% of his two-point shots. He also had 4.8 rebounds, 205 assists and 2.5 steals per game.
Starting from the 5th tour, he increased the number of points more than twice (14.8) and assists (5.5). He also improved his two-point shots (55.2%), rebounds (6.3) and even steals (2.8).
Kennedy gained 20 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists in the 5th tour, when the team attained a road victory over “Cedevita Olimpija Ljubljana”; he had 23 points,7 assists, 5 rebounds and 4 steals in the home match against “Cluj-Napoca” last week.
In the 7th tour Kennedy had 12 points, made 7 rebounds and gave 6 assists in the road game against “Bourg en Bresse”.
It resulted up in the fact that Kennedy not only demonstrated the average RE 24.0 in the last four tours, which is almost three times better than in first four tours of the season but, since the 5th tour, accumulated RE higher than any other player of the tournament.
