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In a battle of unbeatens, Power Electronics Valencia walked away from Triumph Lyubertsy with a 59-67 victory and claimed sole possession of first place in Group B at 3-0.
Valencia used a 4-15 run bridging the end of the first period and the opening minutes of the second to open up a 14-point advantage. The visitors extended their lead to 24 by the end of 20 minutes by going on to outscore Triumph 9-29 over the course of the second quarter.
But what looked like a blowout was anything but that. Triumph mounted a furious comeback attempt and completely dismantled the visitors by a partial of 24-4 in the third period to breath new life back into the contest. After Triumph tied the game at 56-56 with 4 minutes to go, Valencia turned to its young star, Nando de Colo, who scored 9 points down the stretch to win the game.

BC Triumph Head Coach Stanislav Eremin:
- Power Electronics Valencia was a very strong opponent - individually and as a team. It was very hard to find their weaknesses but we had noticed that Valencia struggled to play its game against aggressive opponent.
Our main goal was to play aggressive but unfortunately we didn't have a strong start, especially in defense. We improved in the second half when we played more aggressive, made good runs and hit some easy shots.
I thanked my team after the game for their good effort in the second half and told then that the reason why we lost was our early performance and some crucial mistajes in the fourth quarter.
We have faced some injury problems and only had 7 players available in practice this week. Likhodey and Sergeev had just one practice with the team the day before the game against Valencia.
We signed Bashminov and he just made his debut with the team. He had not played any game in the last half year and is not in his best shape, but showed his desire to fight under the rims.


BC Valencia Head Coach Neven Spahija:
- We were the best team tonight. But the very bad third quarter made the game more interesting, but at the end we won with our patience and our qualitative game.

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