BC “Prometey” – BC “TalTech/OPTIBET” (Tallinn, Estonia) – 101:71 (27:20, 24:14, 22:19, 28:18). January 20. Latvian-Estonian basketball league Pafbet. Riga (Latvia). Olympic centre Rimi. 123 spectators.
BC “Prometey”: Agada (7 + 6 assists + 3 steals), Kennedy (1), Odiase (10), Lypovyy (3), March (19 + 6 rebounds) – starting five; Lukashov (6), Balvin (8 + 10 rebounds + 3 steals0, Bobrov (2), Tkachenko (0), Sanon (27), Sydorov, captain (9 + 5 assists), Clavell (9).
BC “TalTech/OPTIBET”: Jurkatamm (17), Kuttis (6), Andre (8), Ilves (10 + 6 rebounds + 5 assists), Metsalu, captain (16) – staring five;, Valb (3), Sunelik (1), Korvel (0), Saal (10).
The club from the capital of Estonia Tallinn, “TalTech/OPTIBET”, was the last “Prometey” rival in the Latvian-Estonian league, who the “titans” played the first match with in the season series. Our team turned out to be stronger than its opponent was (101:71).
At the same time, “TalTech/OPTIBET” demonstrated it was a decent opponent for the one of the LEBL leaders. In the starting quarter, the visitors outpaced Ronen Ginzburg’s team in fight on the boards and also acted well in long-range offencives (3 successful attempts out of 3). As for “Prometey”, in its roster, Issuf Sanon had the same percentage of three-point shots conversion. The team, falling behind in the debut of the match 4:7, arranged a 7:0 spurt back in the first five-minute segment and did not lose the lead afterwards.
“TaslTech/OPTIBET” strived to stay “in game” as long as possible. 3 minutes befor the long break, the Estonian team was behind by just 10 points; however, they went for the break with a deficit by 17 points. In the second quarter, Sanon continued his offensive performance: after 20 minutes, he already had 5 successful attempts from the perimeter out of 5.
The visitors did not give up and won the first half of the third quarter. Although “Prometey” took the initiative back quickly and won the quarter. “+20” in favour of the Ukrainian club before the final quarter left no questions about the winner of this clash.
The “titans” confidently drove the last quarter to the winning end. In total, Issuf Sanon scored 27 points (9 accurate tree-point attempts, 75% accuracy). Already tomorrow, our players start preparation for the BKT EuroCup confrontation with “Hapoel Tel Aviv”, Israel, which will be held on January 24 in the capital of Serbia Belgrad.
