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50 Georgian Points in Europe

Georgian basketball legion has a good playing day - members of Georgian team who are playing in European clubs collected many points, rebounds and assists. Yesterday, 4 players of Georgian national team collected 50 points, 18 rebounds and 13 assists.

Italy
Manuchar Markoishvili held another perfect match in Serie A and played a great role in winning of "Cantu" against "Sassari". Before yesterday's match these teams were neighbors in the schedule (both have 4-4 wins and 3-3 losses). Though, this match showed that there is a big difference between them.
"Cantu" won the first round 24:10, the difference increased up to 26 points (45:19) at the end of the second quarter. After this, it was obvious which team would have gained the 5th victory at the championship. Finally, "Cantu" won the match 98:77 and is sharing the 3rd-5th places with other 2 teams.
As for Markoishvili, he played during 25 minutes, collected 22 points and became the most productive player in his team. He scored 4 3-point from 5, 5 2-point from 10. He also had 3-3 rebounds and assists.

Spain
Player of Georgian team Taurean Green held a productive match in Spanish "Gran Canaria". Naturalized Georgian was a dangerous player for "Bilbao" and 8 personal fouls of their players prove that.
Green held the whole match on high level and became a hero of a quite tense match. He collected 20 points (2 2-point from 3, 4 3-point from 10, 4 from 6 penalties) during 32,58 minutes. Also Green made 5 rebounds and one assist.
"Gran Canaria" won 75:72, has 4 losses and 6 wins. The team of Green is sharing the 4th-6th places with "Unicaja" and "Valladolid".

Germany
"Giessen" of Lasha Gamkrelidze is not in a good situation (the team won 3 times in a row at the beginning of the championship). The team lost against "Gattingen" (79:85) and it is already the 6th lost match. Now "Giessen" is in the 12th place.
Gamkrelidze collected 5 points (1 2-point from 2, 1 3-point from 3, 0 from 2 penalties) during 27,48 minutes. Georgian made 8 assists which was the best result from both teams. Besides that, he made 2 rebounds and one turnover.

Belgium
"Pepinster" of Tornike Shengelia lost 4 times in a row. "Pepinster" did its best in the match against "Charleroi". They won the first quarter (28:22) but finally lost 79:86.
Shengelia played during 12 minutes. He was quite active during this period but he managed to score only 3 points. But he made 8 rebounds and one assist.



Luka Andriadze

 

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