By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
After a 0-4 start, Baskonia Vitoria Gasteiz has been able to win three of last next four games and is currently the hottest team in the competition.
Last week, Baskonia handed Real Madrid its worst loss in the Turkish Airlines EuroLeague this century, 105-75, and went on to beat Zalgiris in Kaunas by 20 points, 77-97. Its current momentum started when Rodrigue Beaubois hit a game-winning shot against Panathinaikos Superfoods Athens that not only set Fernando Buesa Arena on fire, but also stopped his team’s four-game losing streak.
Beaubois is having his best EuroLeague season, averaging 14.6 points on excellent shooting percentages: 55.9% inside the arc, 45.9% from downtown and 86.7% from the foul line. He is the fourth best per-minute scorer in the competition (25.4 per 40 minutes), only trailing Luka Doncic of Real Madrid, Kevin Seraphin of FC Barcelona Lassa and Nando De Colo of CSKA Moscow, who grew up with him playing together for Cholet Basket.
Beaubois is looking forward to keeping his and the team’s momentum, starting with a very special showdown against Crvena Zvezda mts Belgrade in the Serbian capital on Thursday. “It is always exciting to play in such an amazing atmosphere.
That is the kind of game you want to play and of course, the kind of game you want to win,” Beaubois told EuroLeague.net. “They have great fans to cheer for them from the beginning until the end of the game. We need to be ready for a tough game.”
Read his interview in Euroleague.net.