Prediction respected but with a thousand chills and emotions. There Fiba Europe Cup 2024 go to Germans from Niners Chemnitz, Itelyum Varese, who had reached the semi-finals, had long been favorites to lift the trophy to the skies, and Itelyum Varese had also thought about it more than once.
The success of the Germans, however, came tovery last breath: Chemnitz had won by 11 points the first leg match against the Turks Bahcesehir College (Varese’s vigilantes in the previous round) and had put themselves in the best position in view of the return match.
TO Istanbul but everything happened: after a balanced first quarter, the Bahcesehir he took off also reaching +19 at the end of the second half. After the break though Chemnitz turned the race on its head and with a few minutes left the trophy already seemed to be headed towards Germany. Instead in the finale i Turks have regained strength and they returned to +11 (95-84) while Van Beck missed the shot at the siren that would have given the cup to the Niners.
In the supplementary it was played on a razor’s edge until the epilogue: Chemnitz found two free throws from Kajami-Keane with 50″ left to make it -8 but Scrubb responded with an inbound basket. Kajami himself had the safety shot with 15″ on the clock and so did the Bahcesehir had the triumphant ball but the Bouteille’s triple went to the rim while the next tap attempted by Boutsiele ended up far from the target. 105-95 and cup gone to Chemnitz for just one point advantage in the double header.
The Bahcesehir pivot Boutsiele scored 24 points, 21 from the former Varese player Trey Kell; for the Germans the Canadian was decisive Kaza Kajami-Keane who scored 29 points thus also earning the MVP title of the event. Chemnitz is the second German team to win the Fiba Europe Cup after Frankfurt who won the first edition in Chalon against Openjobmetis in 2016.
