Basket Antwerp Giants have history is written by the Final Four in the Champions League to reach. Never previously managed Belgian club therein. The Giants took in a sold out Lotto Arena the size of Nizhny Novgorod (66-61), Russia won the team of Roel Moors with 68-83.
The Russians came in without their American scorer Kendrick Perry – good for seventeen points in the heenwedstrijd – on the public prosecutor’s office in Antwerp. With the Giants was Ismael Bako, advance uncertain with a foot injury, but fit for the fight. After a noisy openingsbegin – it took more than three minutes before Blades for the first point of the match could provide names of the Antwerp Giants, the command in hands. Via 6-2 and 11-7 went to a 19-12-standings after the first quarter. Especially defensively were the Antwerpenaars very strong on their legs.
In the second quarter kept an impressive home team easily in the lead. Dennis Donkor gave the Giants at 38-28 for the first time a tienpuntenkloof. Paris Lee explained with a vrijworp the idle fixed at 41-29. After the break, the Russians came initially back to 43-35, but the inhabitants of antwerp regained their momentum and thanks to a beautiful three pointer of Hans Vanwijn they locked the third quarter at 57-46.