The Niners Chemnitz basketball team are out of their depth on the European stage. The charges of Head Coach Rodrigo Pastore lost 78:89 (39:40) to Spanish first-division club Basquet Manresa in front of their home crowd on Tuesday and so conceded their third defeat in their fourth Champions League game.
The German club got off to a perfect start and led 33:23 after 16 minutes. The Spaniards then stepped up their intensity in defense and turned the game around in the second quarter. After trailing by 13 points (53:63), the club from Saxony fought tooth and nail against the threat of defeat and managed to tie the scores at 67:67 in the 30th minute. However, the Iberians broke the hosts' last resistance with a 12:0 run to make it 79:67 at the start of the final quarter and conceded a total of 18 turnovers.
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