BELGRADE (Reuters) - Kyle Singler took a highway reduction trafficked for a actor with a college basketball pretension underneath his belt and his preference to barter a NBA for Europe was irreproachable in an considerable Euroleague entrance for Real Madrid Thursday.
Singler, who directed Duke to their fourth NCAA pretension in 2010, scored 8 points in 24 mins on a justice as a starter in Real Madrid's 101-83 home win over Partizan Belgrade.
The Detroit Pistons comparison Singler as a third collect in a second turn of a 2011 NBA draft, though a 23-year-old appetite brazen assimilated Spanish side Alicante Lucentum during a July-December lockout in North America.
Unlike many NBA exiles, who returned home after a sour labor brawl finished progressing this month, Singler opted to stay in Europe and sealed for Real Madrid final week.
"It was a warn for me to start a persion after being here for such a brief time, only one week," Singler told Euroleague's central website (www.euroleague.net) after Real cumulative tip mark in Preliminary Pool C with a compare to spare.
"I feel unequivocally good in this team, really comfortable. we am happy since we didn't design to start or play so many mins in my initial Euroleague game, though we have to go step by step," he said.
Real, who have won Europe's premier bar foe a record 8 times, dominated a compare from start to finish as sharpened ensure Jaycee Carroll led a approach with 22 points while brazen Nikola Mirotic combined 21 and 8 rebounds.
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CSKA Moscow kick holders Panathinaikos Athens 91-75 during home in a strife of European giants that constructed basketball of a tip quality, with most of a movement relating NBA standards.
Although their pivotal actor and former Utah Jazz brazen Andrei Kirlenko was in a terraces with a long-term injury, CSKA looked any bit a odds-on favorites to win a seventh pretension as they stretched their ideal start to 9 wins.
"I am really confident with a team, we am happy with a approach we fought and shielded and it was a veterans Ramunas Siskauskas and Viktor Khryapa who led by example," CSKA manager Jonas Kazlauskas said.
"There was some regard about a earthy figure as a organisation is on a slight decrease forward of a Christmas break, though a purpose players stepped adult and helped us," he said.
Italians Montepaschi Siena finished Barcelona's dominant run with a 77-74 better of a 2010 winners notwithstanding blank several starters by injury.
Serbian indicate ensure Igor Rakocevic, who assimilated Siena in Oct on a giveaway send after a deteriorate had started, scored 21 points and gay his manager Simone Pianigiani.
"We did something special tonight, always desiring mentally in removing behind in a persion even when Barcelona showed a lot of appetite in a third entertain and seemed to have a persion in their hands," Pianigiani said.
"Our second-placed finish in a pool is most deserved."
Twelve teams have cumulative berths in a tip 16, with a final turn of games in a rough organisation theatre scheduled for subsequent week before a month-long break.
The tip 16 teams will be pided into 4 groups of 4 and a tip dual from any organisation will allege to a best-of-five quarter-final series, whose winners will validate for a May 11-13 Final Four in Istanbul.
(Editing by Clare Fallon)
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