Joventut Badalona - Bursaspor Preview & Where to Watch

• → Game to take place at Palau Olímpic de Badalona, Badalona on Wednesday, 22 October 2025 at 20:45 Local Time (CEST)
• → Form check: Joventut are 2-0 after beating Cholet 91-73 and Holon 81-65 (Drell and Rubio 14 each vs Holon; Tomic 14/5/5 vs Cholet). Bursaspor are 0-2 after losses to Holon (74-84) and Cholet (72–84).
• → Context: Top vs bottom in early Group C-Penya chasing 3–0 at home, Bursa trying to grab a first win.

Joventut Badalona - two wins, two clear scripts

The opener was straightforward: 29-17 in the first quarter and no trailing minutes in a 91–73 win over Cholet. Ante Tomic set the platform (14 points, 5 rebounds, 5 assists) and looks like an early dark horse in the MVP race, with Ludde Håkanson’s threes arriving when needed. A week later in Szombathely, it was control again: 81-65 over Holon, built on a 40-33 halftime edge and a 19-10 fourth.

Henri Drell and Ricky Rubio shared top scoring at 14 apiece, Adam Hanga added 11, and the closing stretch was tidy: Rubio and Håkanson steered tempo while the defense held Holon to 10 in the last quarter.

Back at the Palau, the ask is the same: keep turnovers light, feed Tomic on early catches, and let the guard room - Rubio, Håkanson, Vives - decide when to speed up. If the threes hold near the opening night level, Penya’s depth travels from period to period.

Bursaspor: fix the second halves and lean on the guards

The results are plain. In Round 1, Bursa were within a point at halftime against Holon before losing the second half 51–32. In Round 2, they led 23-20 after 10 minutes vs Cholet but got outscored 46-35 after the break. The production is there in flashes: Landry Nnoko bruised his way to 16 points (10-of-14 FTs) against Holon and 13 points with 13 boards against Cholet; Bryant Crawford came off the bench for 19 in Round 2; Brandon Childress had 14 in Round 1. The issue has been efficiency on the perimeter (8/28 threes in both games) and ball security (13 and 15 turnovers).

The path in Badalona is simple to state, harder to execute: keep Nnoko supplied on deep catches without stalling the offense, get Crawford and Childress going before the half-court sets harden, and trade clean shots, not hero-ball, with a team that rarely beats itself.

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