In Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hapoel Holon used a massive second half to overwhelm Bursaspor 93-74 to move their Basketball Champions League group stage record to 3-1. Anthony Brown and Jordan Lloyd helped the Turkish hosts to a 45-42 lead by halftime but CJ Harris and Justin Smith helped Amit Sherf’s to a 51-29 second half and the win.

Harris led the way with 25 points, Smith added 17 points and Amine Noua scored 10 points in the win. Brown scored 22 points and Floyd chipped in with 18 points in the defeat.

“Unfortunately we are used to playing without our crowd but I want to thank Igooea for hosting the game,” Holon head coach Amit Sherf said. “It was super important match when you have six games for each of the four teams, every game and every basket is important. We are fighting for the first place and if would have lost it would have complicated the group.”

“We started poorly with our zone defense and then we went to man to man, we hit our shots and that gave us confidence. We must win next week if we want to be in first we will play our first Israeli league on Saturday back at home and then get ready for our BCL game on Wednesday.”

The game MVP CJ Harris spoke about the win, “It was a very important match as we wanted to come here and win to go into first place in the group. The second unit off the bench brought us to victory, they came in when the first unit was lax and big congrats for helping us to the win. If we keep working and keep getting better we have good chance to finish in first but the games ahead are going to be tough so we have to keep learning and working hard.”

“They have a very good roster and they are fresher,”Jurij Zdovc said. “We had a good rhythm in the first 20-25 minutes and you can see how our energy went down. I couldn’t find a way to stop it. They scored everything, more aggressive and more alive. You can feel the travel was a factor in this game and we have another tough game in the Turkish Championship.”

Omer Utku Al spoke about the game form his point of view, “We started well and we played our game, but then they broke us in the second half, rebounds, fast breaks and 3-points. I don’t want to say anything else.”