Kurucs contributed to the team’s victory with a productive performance in his French league debut

Rodion Kurucs | Photo: SIG Strasbourg

Latvian basketball player Rodion Kurucs on Fridays French championship he scored ten points in the match and helped the “Strasbourg” team represented by him and Kaspars Bērziņš to win. The Strasbourg team, led by the coach of the Latvian national team, Luka Banki, won away with the result of 79:74 (18:17, 16:20, 22:19, 23:18) on “ADA Cesto Blois 41 “.

Kurucs, for whom it was the first game in the French league, but the second in the ranks of the Strasbourg team, was on the field for 26 minutes and 14 seconds, during which he scored ten points, making five of seven two-pointers points shots. He also had five rebounds, one assist, two steals, three turnovers, four fumbles, a +/- of +7 and an eight-rated rating.

Meanwhile, Bērzins played 14 minutes and 34 seconds and made one of three three-point field goals, grabbed two rebounds, fouled out, earned four points, finished with +/- of +10 and an efficiency of two . Marcus Keane was the winners’ top scorer with 21 points, while Jamie Smith’s 15 points did not save the hosts from bankruptcy.

In another match, Levallois Perre’s “Metropolitans 92” beat “Cholet” at home with the result of 92:87 (28:19, 12:28, 19:25, 33:15), with Andrzej Pasechnik left out from the bid match. “Metropolitans 92” with 11 wins in 14 games takes second place in the tournament standings, while “Strasbourg” with six wins in 14 games takes 11th place among the 18 teams in the French league.

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