BK IMMOunited Dukes vs. BK JIP Pardubice 67:80(16:23, 36:44, 51:63)
Referees: Trmal, Brandstötter.
Audience: 150.
Venue: Dukes Castle.
Scorers BK Klosterneuburg Dukes: Lakoju 14, Lanegger 14, Bavcic 13, Burgemeister 8, Blazevic 6, Miletic 5, Danek 4, Jakubowski 3.
Scorers Pardubice: Kohout 16, Vyoral 15, Svrdlik 12, Pavlovic 12, Slanina 9, Skranc 7, Pulpan 5, Potocek 4.
The Dukes had a better start into the game and gained a four point-lead. But then the Czech guests found their rhythm and took the lead with an 8:0-run. Pardubice then remained successful, especially from beyond the three-point line, which gave them a 23:16 lead at the end of the first quarter. The second quarter didn’t show any notable highlights and the gap between the two teams settled at about eight points – the half-time score was 36:44.
Shortly after the restart, Pardubice increased their lead to 14 points, but the team from Klosterneuburg shortened the gap again to single-digits. The visitors finally entered the final quarter with 63:51 in a comfortable position. There wasn’t much happening anymore, the Dukes didn’t have much to oppose and the Czechs only had to manage their lead.
Sallomon, head coach of Dukes: I’m always happy when we play against such good teams because we can only profit from it. Pardubice plays a very simple but effective basketball. They do a lot of things more ‘right’ than we do and together with the physical inferiority, it gets hard.
Blazevic, player of Dukes: Pardubice is a physically strong opponent, unfortunately we lost today. But I think we can take a lot out of this game. It’s certainly a different level than in the Bundesliga, but we can take a lot of that with us.
Scalabroni, head coach of Dukes: It was a well-deserved victory, if you win abroad you must always be satisfied. From my point of view the performance was ok, but not outstanding. We had some problems on the rebound and phases where we didn’t play well together, but it was enough.
Vyoral, player of Dukes: We didn’t know a lot about Klosterneuburg, we just tried to train hard before the game. For us it is a good win and we need to continue like this.