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интересные факты перед матчами среды 14 тура

MIES (Switzerland) - The last two remaining tickets to the Play-Offs will find their rightful owner on Wednesday, the final day of action in the 2019-20 Regular Season. You can read all permutations for both Group A and Group B here. Let's have a closer look at all eight Wednesday games:

San Pablo Burgos (7-6) vs. RASTA Vechta (6-7) - Group B, 18:30 CET


Bruno Fitilpado is shooting 51.4 percent from beyond the arc

  • Burgos have a 5-1 record at home and scored 90 or more points in each of those five home wins.

  • Vechta are bottom of the league in defensive rebounds, with 22.7 per game (295 in total). By contrast, Burgos are the fourth-leading team in the league in offensive boards, averaging 13.5 per game.

  • Burgos point guards Bruno Fitilpado and Ferran Bassas are two of the only four players in the league to shoot more than 50 percent from three-point range (on a minimum of 30 attempts through the first 13 games). Fitilpado's three-point field goal percentage is 51.4 percent and that of Bassas is 51.3 percent.

  • Vechta's Jordan Davis is nursing an injury and is doubtful for Wednesday's game. The point guard scored a joint league-high 35 points in the reverse fixture. He averages 20.2 points in his five games with Vechta after averaging 8.6 points in the five games he played with Manresa.


Telenet Giants Antwerp (4-9) vs. Hapoel Bank Yahav Jerusalem (10-3) - Group B, 18:30 CET

Gameday 13 MVP TaShawn Thomas has a field goal percentage of 74 percent 

  • Hapoel won each of their last two encounters with Antwerp by a point differential of at least 20. However Oostende won the only game between the two teams in Belgium, last season.

  • Hapoel are riding a four-game winning streak and have scored 90 or more points in each of their last three games. They had done so in three of their previous 15 games.

  • Hapoel average a league-high 89.7 points per game this season. By contrast, Antwerp average a second-from-bottom 73.3 points per game.

  • Antwerp lead the league in offensive boards, with 14.5 per game.

  • Owen Klassen had at least 10 rebounds in two of his last three home games. The Antwerp player hadn't posted double digits in rebounds in any of this first 13 home games in the BCL.

  • TaShawn Thomas is shooting 74 percent from the floor, as the only player with a field goal percentage higher than 70 percent this season (among players with at least seven games). The Hapoel forward, who was named Gameday 13 MVP last week, scored more than 20 points in each of his last three games on the road.


AEK (8-5) vs. Anwil Wloclawek (5-8) - Group B, 18:30 CET

Anwil have parted ways with Tony Wroten

  • Anwil have signed guard McKenzie Moore and small forward Oliwier Bednarek and parted ways with Tony Wroten, who averaged 18.6 points and 4 assists in his 13 games in the competition.

  • AEK, who lost their most recent home game 96-84 to Teksut Bandirma, haven't lost consecutive games at home since October 2017.

  • Anwil are on a four-game losing streak in the BCL, having won only three of the 13 road games they have played in the competition.

  • AEK allow on average a league-low (best) 58.7 shot attempts from the floor per game. Meanwhile Anwil allowed a total of 158 made three-pointers through the first 13 games, more than any other team in the league.

  • AEK's Jerai Grant scored in single digits in his last two home games after scoring in double digits in 11 of his previous 12 games at home, most of which were with Strasbourg.

  • Anwil's Ricky Ledo posted a double-double of 25 points and 10 rebounds in the reverse fixture on Gameday 7, and since that game he's averaged 20.9 points per game.


Teksut Bandirma (7-6) vs. EB Pau-Lacq-Orthez (5-8) - Group B, 18:30 CET

Jaime Smith is the only high-volume shooter to average more than 50 percent from downtown

  • Bandirma are riding a three-game winning streak for the first time in the competition since January last season, when they put together a four-game winning streak.

  • Pau have won three of their last four games, more than they won in their previous nine games in the competition. However, the French side won only one of the six games they have played on the road this season.

  • Bandirma are only 15th in the league in rebounding, averaging 35.8 per game (Pau are right behind them with 35.7 boards per contest), but the Turkish team are the only team whose opponents collected less than 300 defensive rebounds (299 in total) through the first 13 games of the season.

  • Jaime Smith of Bandirma is the only player to have converted more than 50 percent of his three-point attempts, 28 of 54, among players with at least 40 attempts from behind the arc.

  • Pau's Ekene Ibekwe, who is the league's third-leading blocker with 1.7 blocks per game, had 5 blocks in the reverse fixture.


BAXI Manresa (7-6) vs. Dinamo Sassari (10-3) - Group A, 20:00 CET

Dwayne Evans had a double-double of 24 points and 10 rebounds in the reverse fixture

  • Manresa lost their most recent home game, to UNET Holon, but had a five-game win streak at home before that. The Spanish team scored more than 75 points in each of their five home wins, but only 65 in their loss to Holon.

  • Sassari have scored more than 80 points in 10 of their last 11 games and won nine of those. The Italian side average 85.9 points per game, more than in any of their previous Regular Seasons campaigns. Sassari averaged 82.7 points per game in the 2017-18 season and 78.5 in 2016-17.

  • Manresa have given up only 82 three-pointers through the first 13 games, less than any other team this season. They are the only team to have never given up 10 or more triples in a game this season.

  • David Kravish of Manresa posted his only double-double, of 10 points and 10 rebounds, in the reverse fixture. Manresa have won four of five games with Kravish in the starting five and one of the three games he came off the bench.

  • Dwayne Evans of Sassari posted his first double-double this season in the reverse fixture, as he finished with 24 points and 10 rebounds. He is averaging 19.5 points on the road and 13.3 points at home, but he is yet to post a double-double on the road.


Polski Cukier Torun (2-11) vs. Filou Oostende (7-6) - Group A, 20:00 CET

Shevon Thompson is a strong candidate to finish as the league's top rebounder this season

  • Torun have lost their last five home games, after winning their home debut in the competition, 97-81 against SIG Strasbourg. Torun give up 102.8 points per home game on average, more than any other team in the history of the competition.

  • Oostende, who gave up fewer than 70 points in each of their last two road games, have never achieved that in three consecutive games on the road in the competition. Oostende have won six of the eight games on the road in which they gave up fewer than 70 points.

  • Torun, with 308 total assists, were the only team to surpass the 300-mark through the first 13 games of the season. The Polish side had at least 20 assists in 12 of their 13 games.

  • Torun’s Chris Wright and Oostende’s Braian Angola lead the competition in steals, with 27 each.

  • Shevon Thompson of Oostende averages 10.1 boards per game and is one of two players to average at least 10 rebounds this season, alongside Emanuel Terry of Bandirma. Thompson had a joint BCL career-high 17 rebounds in the reverse fixture on Gameday 7.


UNET Holon (6-7) vs. Lietkabelis (6-7) - Group A, 20:00 CET

Another game, another double-double showing by Zeljko Sakic?

  • Holon are yet to win a Gameday 14 encounter in the BCL. The Israeli team lost 87-86 to EWE Baskets Oldenburg in 2018 and 74-62 to Nanterre in 2019.

  • Lietkabelis have won two of their last three games on the road, after winning only one of their first 10. Only two of their 13 road games in the BCL have been decided by a double-digit margin.

  • Holon have a league-low 15 blocks this season. They had 45 blocks in the 2017-18 Regular Season and 41 in the 2018-19 Regular Season.

  • Marcus Foster is the league's fifth-leading scorer this season with 17.8 per game, but he is third in total points, with 232 after the first 13 weeks.

  • Zeljko Sakic of Lietkabelis posted a double-double in points and assists on Gameday 12 and one in points and rebounds on Gameday 13. He is the first-ever player in the history of the competition to register double-doubles in different stat categories in back-to-back games.


SIG Strasbourg (4-9) vs. Turk Telekom (10-3) - Group A, 20:00 CET

Moustapha Fall posted a double-double of 21 points and 14 rebounds in the reverse fixture

  • Strasbourg will likely have to make do without Jérémy Nzeulie, who is nursing an injury and Ali Traore, who was suspended by the French team last week.

  • Strasbourg's five-game losing streak is the second-longest for a French team in the BCL, after JDA Dijon's six-game skid in the 2018-19 season.

  • Turk Telekom, who are debuting in the BCL this season, are riding their first four-game winning streak in the competition.

  • Turk Telekom had the league's highest three-point field goal percentage coming into Gameday 14, shooting 39.4 percent from deep. By contrast, SIG Strasbourg are third from bottom in the league in total made three-pointers, with 93 triples through the first 13 weeks.

  • Moustapha Fall had 21 points and 14 rebounds in the reverse fixture, registering an efficiency rating of 34, which remains the highest by a Turk Telekom player in a BCL game.