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Beşiktaş Cola Turka, 94-85: Iverson contributes 14/8, notches first European win

November 28, 2010

Beşiktaş Cola Turka got big performances from Mire Chatman and Fedor Likholitov, while Allen Iverson dominated the first half on offense to help the Eagles win their first game, 94-85 over Trabzonspor, since Mr. Answer joined the squad.

Iverson’s line ended up showing 14 points and 8 assists contributed – and all but three of those points came in the first 20 minutes of play. How involved was A.I. in the Beşiktaş offense? In directly contributing to at least 27 Eagles points, the halftime score stood at 41-41.

For Trabzanspor, longtime American journeyman Alvin Snow was tasked with guarding Iverson up top to a bit greater success – and so Beşiktaş coach Burak Biyiktay starting sending the offense through his old standard, Mire Chatman. Chatman contributed 15 of his 19 points in the second half, again showing his TBL scoring domination of last season.

Likholitov was the token big-man contributor for Beşiktaş in this game with 20 points and eight rebounds, although Trabzanspor’s Vladislav Dragojlovic was noted as having ruled the baseline on offense and defense to put together a monster 18-point 12-rebound effort – lack of size hurts Beşiktaş again … BiE wonders: how can the Eagles get more than one big involved per game?

Next up: The Iverson circus travels to France to play Asvel Basket in week three of Eurocup basketball on Tuesday night. Tipoff is scheduled for 7.30pm CET (1.30pm EST).

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Comments: 6
  1. Sivan John
    14 years ago

    I knew that he still has what it takes to play ball, so I’m not surprise by his performance thus far. The million dollar question will always remain whether or not, he will survive there. I’m thinking maybe just for this one season and after that he will make use of his option to opt out of the contract.

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  2. Jay Money
    14 years ago

    ….and 8 assists too! Good stats that show he’s a team player and not some ball hogger like the media likes to make him out to be. The coach just needs to let him touch the ball more so he can score on his own or pass to his big man for an easy assist. Either way it works out.

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  3. lakeysha aka totalpackage
    14 years ago

    Yeah give bubb the ball more he still is the answer philly

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  4. Milos
    14 years ago

    European teams do not play ISO ball. They do NOT just give the ball to one player and tell everyone else to watch. NBA basketball is years behind the European game in coaching and tactics and in offensive strategy.

    They don’t play NBA ball in Europe. All these NBA fans that keep saying “his coach just needs to give him the ball” in these comments are so funny. The European game is years ahead of the NBA game in development. They stopped playing that archaic NBA style of “basketball” years ago in Europe.

    If Iverson can’t adjust to the modern style of basketball that is played in Europe these days then that is HIS problem, not his coach’s problem.

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  5. Mehmet Kaya
    14 years ago

    Allen is playing right now. watch it LIVE. It is free, turkish state television.

    http://www.trt.net.tr/Canli/canli.aspx?kanal=TV2&slv=0

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  6. Petros
    14 years ago

    4 points in his next game. He does not have what it takes anymore to be a good player at the Eurocup level, much less the higher Euroleague level.

    http://www.eurocupbasketball.com/ulebcup/competition/results/showgame?gamecode=36

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